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Hawke’s Bay rates hikes: Havelock North property could pay $700 annually for public transport
Change in Rating base from Land value to Capital Value by
HB Regional Council
159% Increase in one captive ratepayers HNRC Rates as a result - and $700 transport levy ???
Absolutely extortionate & Ridiculous - HB Regional Council !
And done at a time when COL, Interest rates, and all other costs are generally rising in recessionary times.
About as smart as another Hawkes Bay Council looking to try to syphon off 25% increases for broken infrastructure it mostly didn't bother opening too many eyes to until hit with a 50 or 100 year King shot, then tries recover a large pile in how few years ?
Remember those old bridges largely ignored and costing 37% more over last year's or month's costs would generally be fairly largely subsidised by Central Govt .. well wouldn't they ?
So much for the just having to wave the CYCLONE flag to try to fix all ills in one foul swoop
What a bunch of Clueless Councils we have in the Hawkes Bay
Have the finance brains @ HB Regional Council remained waterlogged & started rotting ?
Did any of of the HBRC blockheads in the back office consider likely affects on higher capitalised properties
and the associated likely rort for things they did not, and would not use ?
Same idiots who were involved in the vast & extensive Ruataniwha Dam C*ck -up or not ?
Merger of the Hawke's Bay Councils some years ago appear to have been the correct move
except the correct merger proposal was never considered or presented
That would have been HB Regional Council de-established and done away with and each of the
other councils picking up what HBRC was doing in their own Council territory,.
And of course with it - HBRC's Port of Napier shareholding vested in a Community Trust in the same
way as Unision is owned by & for benefit of beneficiaries HB Power Consumer Trust
Port of Napier would probably operate more efficiently and see itself as having been granted a new life without the burden of HBRC leg irons and chains draped it's neck
Far too much Council ROT, wastage of Resources and Cluelessness over the years appear on the HBRC past track record.
How many millions were wasted across a decade or more by HBRC on the "Done Deal" Ruataniwha Dam project ?
Who ultimately paid for all that ?
They likely thought after it got canned & their rates got hiked that was probably more like a fairly "Dumb Deal" and they can be forgiven for thinking that to, after those responsible for pushing the grand scheme got pushed themselves
For those with longer memories - in around 2002 this was a Council which levied no Regional Council rates due to a Port of Napier windfall it received and has since displayed many if not all of the bad financial habits other Councils now display, the least of which is regarding it's captive ratepayers as a Council ATM to be raided once a year
It appears time that getting rid of the extra layer of expensive, unnecessary & mindless greedy Local Body Bureaucracy that HBRC appears to now represent is once again in need of consideration by Central Government, as part of a wider in depth investigation of the affairs & conduct of all NZ Local Bodies
What would a referendum now likely produce post- Cyclone and after the Local HB Councils have played their little ring a rosies around vastly hiked rates and oncosts based on Cyclone excuses, with one at the centre of the Cyclone front also playing Capital Value games after all that's happened ?
Let's put it in the
CAPITAL VALUES that HB Regional Council
HBRC so dearly loves now:
BE GONE WITH YOU - HBRC .. The Hawke's Bay does not need the extra Layer of Bureaucratic Local Body Bunkum, selective madness / blindness and wasteful excesses that you represent
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