Wayne Brown: Auckland Mayor on Budget announcement, Auckland Airport and cost cutting measures
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has made a last-minute bid to build support for a $2.3 billion sale of the council’s airport shares ahead of releasing his final budget proposal today.
Councillors were called to two confidential meetings yesterday, one in the morning on the sale of the airport shares and one yesterday afternoon to discuss a draft of the mayor’s final budget proposal.
Brown will release his final budget proposal in the board room at Auckland Transport at 8.30am this morning - a day later than planned.
At yesterday morning’s meeting, staff from Flagstaff, the Australian firm engaged…
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