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Ryan Bridge: Complaining about councils, yet again
Just when you thought local council couldn’t get more absurd and extravagant, they’ve dreamt up a new way to not make decisions. To do less, with more.
Citizens assemblies. A crackpot idea the Romans once used. But Romans did lots of weird stuff we stopped doing, and this should be one of them.
They’ve got one on the boil in Whanganui.
In Napier, 40 unelected locals have just finished sitting around talking about where to put a new swimming pool and what that pool might look like.
Four weeks later. $800 per person, including refreshments and god knows what else - $100,000 total from the rates…
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