Marlborough Mayor John Leggett has been asked what will happen if the community "overwhelmingly" rejects a "significant-proposal" to lend Port Marlborough $110m.
Friday, 23 July 2021, 4:08 pm
Local
residents on Queen Charlotte Drive express their gratitude
to road workers as the clean-up from the storm
continues.
If a region could be
measured by the compassion of its residents, Marlborough
would be off the scale, says Marlborough Mayor John
Leggett.
As a huge week of emergency response comes to
a close in the region, he took the opportunity to thank all
those involved in responding to last weekend’s storm.
“This has included several Council staff from Canterbury
who arrived in the past few days to shore up resources,”
said Mayor Leggett.
“It’s a good time for us to
Seddon gets its water from the Black Birch Stream.
Photo: LDR / Chloe Ranford
The water reforms could see Blenheim and Picton lumped in with the eastern and lower parts of the North Island, sharing the cost of water upgrades with the likes of Greater Wellington, Hawke s Bay and Gisborne.
Meanwhile, people in Seddon and Ward, in South Marlborough, could be splitting bills with the rest of the South Island, including Christchurch and Queenstown.
As it stands, the Three Waters shake-up could, in the long-term, leave residents in South Marlborough paying $380 more a year in water bills than those in the upper half of the region.