The podcast discusses Wellington City Council's 5.8% rate increase, staff reductions under a sinking grid policy, concerns over costly water meter installations, efforts to remove heritage restrictions on properties, and political implications of shifting voter support ahead of a
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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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cost-cutting through workforce reduction
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