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Aha I have caught someone! That is, someone thinking about watching for restraint on spending by a Council. Is this a first for how many days, weeks, years?
https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=155704
Wellington’s Deficit Spending
by Cr Ray Chung
As Diane Calvert has written, we are sworn to secrecy about our briefing on the Wellington City Council’s parlous financial situation, so I’ll just comment on things that are public information.
You’d think that the council’s dire financial predicament would have scared enough councillors to stop spending or at least to stop and think about it? No chance!
Just a few days after the briefing on our finances, we had a public Environment and Infrastructure Committee meeting (on 14 September) to talk about the Zero Waste Plan which is to recycle food scraps to stop them from going to the Tip.
Now I’m all for recycling and saving rubbish from going to the Tip but I feel there are less expensive ways of doing this. As an example, I barely have a supermarket bag (remember these?) of rubbish a week and that includes my two Westie dogs’ poop.
The Zero Waste Plan requires that we buy 76,768 (the number of households in Wellington) new wheelie bins costing $274 annually that will be put on to our rates bill. The CAPEX (cost of buying the new bins) will cost $10.1million and the OPEX (cost of running the city) will cost a cool $225.8million over 10 years and this will cost an additional annual 4.2% on to our rates – in addition to all the other increases. We’ll also need a new organic processing plant that will cost Wellington $22.4 million over four years…
Sounds a good man. Perhaps all retired people could start thinking along these lines instead of either how many holiday breaks they can have, or how sick they are and calling out for help with no thought of putting in. Which is a common attitude.
In a 2021 interview, Dr Tom told RNZ that as an emergency department doctor, he saw a lot of illness that was preventable and his mission was to keep people out of hospital.
“There’s a tsunami of diabetes, mental health issues… I’m just trying to get out there and get amongst it and try and prevent people turning up.”
Seeing the massive need for doctors in rural New Zealand, he felt a sense of responsibility to help, but also loved visiting remote places.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018910659/remembering-inspiring-physician-dr-tom-mulholland
It’s too funny for words to watch the Right pour the money on, and get the classic old New Zealand response to that. Too much.
Our weak-minded second cousins, the Americans, don’t have that reflex.
Too funny for words. From every angle.