Auckland Super City - How Have Forumites Fared?

[Perry]

I know there have been comments about the changes, here-and-there, on
the Forums. Has the dust settled? If so, what have PT Forumites seen and
experienced? Of particular interest to me is those (doubtless) much publicised
savings & efficiencies. Did any of them happen? If so, did services improve
and/or increase? What were the levels of staff reductions, over the entire
Auckland Councils' area? Perhaps Rates went down (or didn't go up) to abso-
lutely positively demonstrate the savings to ratepayers?

Yeah, right?

[Perry]

Resurrecting this old thread out of direct interest, given
that the same sentiments are being expressed about
amalgamation of several HB Councils.

Anyone keep a list of mirage promises which failed to deliver?
Or know if there is one, prepared by some other netizen?

As in my first post, do the $ savings to ratepayers actually
happen? Even if no one has one, or knows where there is
a list of broken promises and costings, I'd appreciate it if
forumites with properties in the taken-over areas of Auckland,
as well as those within the old Auckland city, could make up
a table / list of their annual rate demand fugures by year,
relating that to the years before-and-after the year that the
forced super city shemozzle happened.

Residential and commercial, if possible.

[Damap]

So far zero savings but definitely reduced bureaucracy with some of the bitchier previous local councils