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Hill Street back on agenda
Pressure group Fix Hill Street Now posted billboards decrying the fact Hill Street was absent from Council’s 10-year budget.
Rodney Councillor Greg Sayers says the Hill Street intersection looks likely to figure in Auckland Council’s 10-year budget, following a meeting with the Auckland Transport board of directors.
Late last week, Cr Sayers says he has secured indications from the board that $7 million will, in all probability, be set aside to purchase land and secure a resource consent to upgrade the troubled intersection. This will mean the project will not end up a “dead duck in the water”.
Auckland Ratepayers’
Alliance
is calling out Mayor Phil Goff
for his undignified comment that the claim made by
Councillor Greg Sayers asking why Auckland Council is
funding yoga classes is
“bullshit.”
Yesterday, Councillor Greg
Sayers penned an opinion piece questioning why ratepayers
were paying for yoga classes, among other services.
Responding to Heather du Plessis-Allan, who asked if
ratepayers were indeed funding yoga classes, Mr Goff
declared “
no no, look it’s all bullshit. It’s
patently false.”
Mr Goff went on to say that
yoga classes are only provided in some pool and leisure
centres where membership fees are required, and that Sayers