yep, bring it on. Sort out those pesky Aucklanders. We now have a couple of years (maybe more) to do stuff while they wheelspin. That said, it’s gotta happen.
My comments include: the costs of change will be significant, and since it is imposed, I think the taxpayer could pick up a large share of the change costs. In the meantime, those cumbersome LTCCP’s are now a complete waste of time and money. Please, someone, let them stop work on that and get on with the priority of amalgamating.
Don’t expect too much in savings – you’ll never prove it and what I wanna see is regional decisions and planning – fix raods, and other big ticket issues, as a region.
And for those pessimists, who see it as all black – I’m including you, David Wilson, if you look for the worst in everything, that’s all you’ll find. There’s a lot of good in this – it’s about the execution. For those who say the ‘local’ will be lost – I assume then that you want to go back to pre-89 days, and a few hundred councils????
Change.
It’s what you make of it.
