Costs drop

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 493, 6 July 1993, Page 11

Costs drop

In his foreword to the presentation of the 1993/94 Draft Annual Plan at last week's Ruapehu District Council meeting in Taumarunui, chief executive Cliff Houston said that it was gratifying to note that the level of general and associated rates has actually dropped since the first financial year of the present council in 1990/91. In 1990/91 the total rates amounted to $7,914,300. The following year (1991/92) they totalled $7,927,300. Last year (1992/93) the rates total dropped to $7,927,400. Mayor Garrick

Workman said that these figures should dispel the myth of burgeoning costs ... "in fact costs have been reduced". In noting that the estimated rate increase for 1993/94 was expected to rise by 2% to $7,999,700, Cr Graeme Cosford asked the chief executive to explain the major factors that would be involved in this increase. Mr Houston replied that, under the new Resource Management Act, significant costs were going to be involved in bringing sewage disposal and waste management up to the standard required by the Act.