REDUCE RATES - REDUCE STAFF

A comprehensive review of costs will save New Plymouth District Council ratepayers $10 million a year. By doing the council reduced what would have been a 17% rate increase to 11%. To achieve the savings, staff numbers have been reduced by 10% and cutting the use of “consultants and external lawyers”.

What a shame the Whangarei District Council has not done the same and followed the advice of central government when it increased rates by 17.2%!