The Taxpayers’ Union reports that Northland councils face significant financial pressures despite low apparent rate differences, highlighting issues like debt, high staffing and outsourcing costs, and inefficient administration, and calls for an immediate rates cap.
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millions wasted on unnecessary digital project
Councillors Duped Into Thinking $7.7 Million Website Was an Appoutsourcing and bureaucracy inflate expenses
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