Bay of Plenty Regional Council rates rises are being signalled in annual plan budget decisions made this week.
The annual plan budget includes a $2.3 million loan to pay for flood works on the region's rivers.
The loan will result in rises in targeted and general rates to service the loans.
The demand on rates is expected to be ameliorated by a one-off $600,000 payment from reserves to cover increasing local authority insurance premiums following flood damage to the region's rivers and as a result of the Christchurch earthquakes.
In other spending approved for the coming financial year, the regional council will pay $1.8 million towards the Judea Link package for the Southern Pipeline,
It will also pay $116,000 from reserves towards the Little Waihi sewerage scheme, $60,000 from reserves to the Rotorua Paradise Valley sewerage scheme and $65,000 to improve access to the Kaimai Mamaku Forest Park.
A pilot iwi secondment programme to build iwi capability and learn more about the council and vice-versa will receive $100,000 in regional council funding.
There will be $100,000 spent on additional growth management work in the region, including a review of the SmartGrowth strategy spatial planning implications.
The council is paying $20,000 to Manaaki Taha Moana to fund two summer students to collect and analyse samples from Tauranga moana to help determine the biological health of the harbour.
Items referred to the Ten Year Plan process for further consideration include the request from Home of Cycling for $4 million.
Also referred for consideration are requests from the Tauranga Environment Centre for $72,000, $10,000 from Surf Life Saving, and a call from Eastern Coastguard for support for communication and education resources.
The Bowentown Boating and Sport Fishing Club wants $60,000 for dredging and maintenance.
The Western Bay of Plenty District Council wants $35,000 to offset a rates increase at Maketu-Little Waihi to pay for the sewerage scheme.
Also to be considered is implementing an interest-free loan system to ensure home insulation across the region.
The annual plan goes to the full council for final adoption on Thursday, June 23.
6 comments
LIKE A MINI TCC
Posted on 10-06-2011 12:08 | By PLONKER
Where does it all go, no word on how much of a slug we are all getting and like we need that of cousre, worst is the $4m to sent on a one way ticket over teh hill to Cambridge ... what madness erupts in the bastions of City Hall every day!
STOP ALL non-core spending
Posted on 10-06-2011 12:33 | By SpeakUp
The private interests who pester and lobby the Council(s) have to be exposed and all public support needs to be withheld. We will face dire times, which none of the Councillors seem to comprehend, as they are lulled by the official hogwash of government shills and MSM. We will drown in the exponential debt incurred by high-flying plans. The spendrift will not be able to be squeezed from struggling ratepayers anymore. Future income and cashflow will be SEVERELY truncated by general recession. The coming depression will render most of today's administrators as ignorant wasters of public funds. SpeakUp -Citizens Monitoring Council-
What percentage increase?
Posted on 10-06-2011 13:26 | By al pillocksworth
Interesting to know how much the Regional Council rates have risen over the last decade. You'd think with all that Port money, they wouldn't need to charge rates if they stuck to their knitting. No way the council should support the ridiculous request to pay for a velodrome in the Waikato!
SILLY PILLOCK!
Posted on 13-06-2011 09:36 | By YOGI
Stick to there knitting, come on sonce when, they all have grand plans of concrete monuments upon which to place their own names, we all get to pay without choice.
Posted on 13-06-2011 16:25 | By The Tomahawk Kid
If this is not what the MAJORITY (ie those who you all think are the only ones with rights) want, then this kind of insanity wouldnt be happenining. Its happening because you all think it is acceptable to have a say in how others spend their own money. All this talk is pointless and you will NEVER get anything other than this insanity untill you realise that the system is flawed and needs to be changed to a more moral system that recognises property rights and the rights of the individual over that of the mob.
@ TOMAHAWK KID
Posted on 14-06-2011 17:32 | By YOGI
Oh contrar sir ... the actual problem is that the rights of an individual are running riot over the mob. That is why all these silly decisions are being made behind closed doors, so as by the time anyone knows about it the money has gone, spent, history. The perfect example is Baypark, yet more secret negotiations carried out and yet again the Ratepayers are burdened with debt and losses. Sir there are two dots on the page, all you have to do is draw a line between them! Very simple concept, get the picture!
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