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Michelle Craig: Mount Maunganui Beach Hut Cafe owner on community council meeting · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Still no answers for Mount Monganery businesses on when the
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  Speaker 1: thing will actually reopen. They had a community meeting last
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  Speaker 1: night nearly one hundred days after the landslide, and businesses
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  Speaker 1: some reporting sales down fifty percent or more. Michael, Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Craig Mount Monganery, Beach Hut Cafe owners with me
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  Speaker 1: this morning? Was that the meeting? Michelle? Good morning, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: How are you very well? Thank you? What did you
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  Speaker 1: get out of that meeting? Michelle, Well, it was.
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  Speaker 2: The second meeting that I'd attended. We had one specifically
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  Speaker 2: for business people about ten days earlier, and then last
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  Speaker 2: night for the community at large, and it seemed like
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  Speaker 2: everybody at both meetings had have the same frustration, and
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  Speaker 2: that is that the city council just isn't doing anything
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  Speaker 2: or seeming to not do anything, and they're just not communicating.
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  Speaker 2: What did pretty polite? It was pretty polite last night.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't so polite at the business meeting.
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  Speaker 1: I can say, what do they say, Michelle? What's the reason?
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  Speaker 1: Just safety?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, lots of reports, lots of geotech reports, lots of
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  Speaker 2: careful consideration about safety. Some people might call it procrastination.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, some of my friends did last night. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure what the truth is, but yeah, one hundred
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  Speaker 2: days nearly. It's quite a long time for nothing to
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  Speaker 2: have happened when we consider what happened at Rena, because
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  Speaker 2: when Rena happened, we all got down to the beach.
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  Speaker 1: What's happened to the bill? What's happened to the beach cafe?
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, Michelle, Well.
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  Speaker 2: My local, lovely locals and regulars are still popping down
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  Speaker 2: and people are really making a big effort to come
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  Speaker 2: across from Omokua and other places around Toto to support
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  Speaker 2: us on the weekends. But for us, we've gone down
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  Speaker 2: to skeleton staff like everybody else. All of the owners
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  Speaker 2: are working longer hours now because we us really can't
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  Speaker 2: see how we're going to afford winter. January was really
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  Speaker 2: critical to us, and you know this is through no
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  Speaker 2: fault of our own, but our businesses might fail.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime. Are you having to pay full rates?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, yes, So I started the rates for remission
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  Speaker 2: request about seven days after the slip, and we were
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  Speaker 2: told in a letter that took a very long time
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  Speaker 2: to arrive that there would be no rates for remission
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  Speaker 2: they've been saying from the get go that they will not,
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  Speaker 2: and that's really disappointing. You know. Fuck tin of counsel
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  Speaker 2: did the same. They did rates re mission for people
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  Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen when the floods took out a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of business operation there RENA. The people with jobs
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  Speaker 2: that were affected by the renas, they were given subsidies
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  Speaker 2: three hundred dollars to part time as six hundred four timers.
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  Speaker 2: We've been offered no assistance like other businesses in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Michelle, thank you for being with me on the program
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  Speaker 1: this morning, and I hope things improve soon. For more
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