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The council wage blowout has wiped out funds gained by the 2.5 per cent rates increase and Auckland Council must start holding management to account, councillor Greg Sayers says.
"Until the tail stops wagging the dog and the mayor holds management to account,
then ratepayers will continue to distrust council's ability to make good decisions," he said.
Mayor Phil Goff is also worried the wage blowout will further contribute to the low level of trust and confidence in Auckland Council.
Reminds me of FlyerNZL's comments about Councillors being the dogs sipping tea and reading reports, all the while being wagged by the management bureaucracy's tail.
The council wage blowout has wiped out funds gained by the 2.5 per cent rates increase and Auckland Council must start holding management to account, councillor Greg Sayers says.
"Until the tail stops wagging the dog and the mayor holds management to account,
then ratepayers will continue to distrust council's ability to make good decisions," he said.
Mayor Phil Goff is also worried the wage blowout will further contribute to the low level of trust and confidence in Auckland Council.
Reminds me of FlyerNZL's comments about Councillors being the dogs sipping tea and reading reports, all the while being wagged by the management bureaucracy's tail.
In this case voting themselves handsome pay rises.
Former Finance Minister Sir Michael Cullen is one of three new appointments to the board of Auckland Transport, which spends about half of ratepayers' money and is a source of frustration with many Aucklanders.
"With nine years' experience as Finance Minister of New Zealand, Sir Michael Cullen will be invaluable in ensuring the organisation has a strong understanding of the relationship with central government.
Collaboration with government is vital in addressing Auckland's need for infrastructure funding is met," Goff said.
Cullen was finance minister from 1999 to 2008, deputy Prime Minister to Helen Clark from 2002 to 2008 and a former chairman of New Zealand Post.
Sources have told the Herald that Cullen could become Auckland Transport Board chairman when current chairman Lester Levy completes his term.
Meanwhile, Phil Goff has appointed a Wellingtonian and former landlord, Annette King to the board of Watercare in Auckland… ..........
King is the second senior Labour Party figure to be appointed to a council-controlled organisation since former Labour Party leader and Mt Roskill MP Phil Goff became Mayor of Auckland 11 months ago
Auckland's water company has cut hundreds of thousands of dollars from the salary of its chief executive Raveen Jaduram who will still be paid a basic salary of $510,000.
so with 25%? rises over 3 years since then can probably guess that labour's anette is now on around $500,000 - $600,000?
and labour's cullen will on much the same but rising to about $800,000? when he takes over as boss of AT
. . . they can lie, cheat and steal, and there's no accountability.
Why is that so? What is it with us kiwis, or the system, or whatever-you-want-to-call-it, that seemingly, nothing can be done to shaft those who egregiously shaft ratepayers and taxpayers?
because most swing voters don't/can't devote enough time to working out fact from fiction or even remembering what went wrong last time with the same mob
they rely only on what is said just before voting day
and their gut feeling on who appeals to them most
hence we get; gw bush, trump, key, goff, jacinda, winston etc.
they are not always wrong
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