Hastings homeowners may be hit with a 25 percent rates rise as the city grapples with how to pay for the huge amount of cyclone recovery work still ahead.
Hastings District Council will on Thursday consider the rates hike as part of its draft long-term plan.
The draft plan is proposing 8 percent of the increase is targeted to cyclone recovery and 17 percent to core services, such as maintaining existing roading and invest in infrastructure.
"It is very much an infrastructure-based budget," mayor Sandra Hazlehurst told Morning Report.
"What we've spent in the last year is close to $155 million just in the response and road repairs.
"In addition to that we had the category three voluntary buyout, which is $50 million, and on top of that, we need around $170 million to continue with our transport rebuild."
Hazlehurst said the council was hoping for more funding from the government to help the recovery.
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