Auckland Council is looking to increase our rates yet again this year.
We need to cap the rates to help control council spending. There are too many projects going at the same time and council plans to add more projects well before the old projects have been completed.
Maintaining wastewater, storm water and water filtration should be first priority with winter around the corner.
[They must] finish road works that have been going on for years which is the main cause for the build up of traffic on the motorways.
The increase on rates are the cause of financial hardship for those on low incomes.
Labour said they would be helping people on the poverty line this year.
It doesn’t matter what we say to Auckland Council, it just falls on deaf ears so maybe [I’ll be] approaching Naisi Chen, Labour Party List MP about a policy protecting us from being exploited by local council.
Cap the rates now; review after five years at no more than 2 per cent for those on low incomes then cap for another five years and so on.
If council don’t like this idea then this is the year we vote for new faces in the council.
We vote for capping the rates.
Wally Peck, Bucklands Beach
