Letters: Wastewater rates, public servants, Eden Park and Asian art
22 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Wastewater renewal rates have been charged for years but the funds have been channeled off for other purposes, one writer says. Photo / Alex Burton
NZ Herald
Letter of the week: Larry Mitchell, Rothesay Bay.
The (Weekend Herald, January 16) reports the plan to raise $106m rates rise . to clean up beaches .
Additional rates such as are proposed, would have been totally unnecessary if Auckland Council had followed its own rules and policies relating to the proper application-expenditure of its wastewater funding reserves.
Included in our rates bills going back almost 20 years, ratepayers have already been billed and have paid in advance the huge sums set aside for wastewater renewals. These funds had been paid, collected and reserved for the works that now need to be completed . to keep sewerage off our city beaches.