A post criticizing the use of ratepayer funds to support a TPP protest, highlighting concerns over financial burden and council operational cuts driven by fear.
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Well, we we made a bunch of cuts that got us to 7.4% earlier in the year, and that's what we're consulting with the community on. I said to officers, you know, finding savings isn't an annual activity, it's a daily activity, so they carried on working. So they found there's there's projects that aren't going to be finished that don't have to be depreciated, so we could don't have to budget for that. Um we because we're operating a sinking good policy on staff, we're being able to cut staff costs, we're not replacing those positions. Um, and that led us to uh um more savings that got us down to the rates rise that we've got to. Okay. How how many staff have you reduced?
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Andrew Little: Wellington mayor on the council's plan to increase rates by 5.8 percentSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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