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Andrew Little: Wellington Mayor on the government progressing with rate caps · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: No more disco lose for Wellington or any council. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: this is what the rates cap is coming.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be clear with councils that they should
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  Speaker 2: not wait for the enactment of the rates capping model
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  Speaker 2: before controlling rates increases to their constituents.
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  Speaker 1: The band two to four percent unless you get sign
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  Speaker 1: off from a government regulator not included water and other fees.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Little as the Wellington mayor joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Andrew right, So no more disco lose in
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  Speaker 1: the future. Will you live with that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't well. Right now our council is doing the
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  Speaker 3: very thing that the government talked about to line by
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  Speaker 3: line review. Winsteron City Council no doubt, like many others,
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  Speaker 3: has to get its financial controls in order and getting
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  Speaker 3: expending under control, and that's what we're doing. But in
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  Speaker 3: terms of the specialized disabled toilets in a Courtney place,
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  Speaker 3: there is a facility that is aimed at providing a
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  Speaker 3: facility for some of the most profoundly disabled people who
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  Speaker 3: do go to Courtney plasification.
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  Speaker 1: So you're the cost that is this whole thing just
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  Speaker 1: misnoma that the cost of it, how much of it
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  Speaker 1: was on the lights and the design as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: practical things like disability access.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I don't know, I wasn't involved in the project.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't here tod it. It's there now. But two
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  Speaker 3: things that they were it was aimed to do. One
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  Speaker 3: was more secure toilets because the ones that were there
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  Speaker 3: previously were the scene of well it was pretty insecure,
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  Speaker 3: pretty unsafe, but also a facility for particularly highly immobile
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  Speaker 3: and disabled people to get exteitute that one of toilets
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  Speaker 3: got to hoist in it. Another toilet's got a shower
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  Speaker 3: in it when accidents happened. So it provides those facilities
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  Speaker 3: very expensive. That is correct, And I don't know why
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  Speaker 3: it's got the light show on the front of it,
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  Speaker 3: but that's what the previous council proved.
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  Speaker 1: Will there be no more light shows under Andrew Livel.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're root, we're cutting spending and we'll do It's
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  Speaker 3: not a no, there's not a no. Come on, we're
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  Speaker 3: not putting right shows on tour.
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  Speaker 1: All right, very good and is two to four percent reasonable.
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  Speaker 3: The problem with things like that is a lot of
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the rates increases in the last few
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  Speaker 3: years have been because of decades of underspending or under
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  Speaker 3: waiting residents to look after infrastructure that sits under the ground,
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  Speaker 3: and that's reality Wellington to the Count's borrowed to do
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  Speaker 3: a lot of infrastructure infrastructure upgrades. The reality a lot
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  Speaker 3: of that is water that gets shifted off to water
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  Speaker 3: entities are not covered by the restriction, So we'll see
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  Speaker 3: that how that happens. I think that the main thing
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  Speaker 3: is what the governments tepped into is justified consume with
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people seeing their rates going up at
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  Speaker 3: an astronomical rate. At the same time it's going to
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  Speaker 3: costs as well, but rates for councilors. They should do
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  Speaker 3: a bit of job at keeping the spinning out of
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  Speaker 3: control and we need to do that, isn't that questaper?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: We will see you go Andrew Little Wellington meet.
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  Speaker 2: For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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