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Amalgamation
Status Quo
There will be a public petition available to sign to oppose amalgamation of any design and to request the UHCC not to engage in discussion with other regions Mayors until they have a clear mandate in the form of a referendum to do so. Seek it out or call contact me tshoman@kinect .co.nz
Teresa Homan
Stick with status quo. Upper Hutt is a distinct community with it’s own demographic and consequence culture.
Hutt City is prone to flooding and many infrastructure costs for rate payers.
Gayle McGarry
I oppose amalgamation, because being the smallest fish in a very big pond, we in Upper Hutt will have no chance of getting our views heard. We will be over ridden , and lose our voice in every aspect. Big brother (WCC), will simply out vote us, backed up by PCC and LHCC and our unique identity will be lost completely. We must fight against amalgamation and our council should be actively promoting our position, rather than just going along with the flow. The historic proberb “He Who Hestitates Is Lost” could well have been written for us. Pussy footing, and waiting to see what happens next, is not the way to go. Come on UHCC, we elected you to fight in our corner, not to just throw the towel in.
Elaine Chaney
Auckland amalgamated and it cost the ratepayers heaps. NO SAVINGS. The nearest we get to savings is that “Oh it would have been so much more expensive if we didn’t amalgamate”.. Says who? No one independent that is for certain. The Regional Council, the nearest thing we have for amalgamation at the moment, wanted to spend 500 million dollars on a ferry terminal! It would not have benefitted Upper Hutt at all.. But we would have had to help pay for it. They have spent millions planting the riverbank awaiting the next big flood to wipe all the work away. Not that anyone asked for it in the first place. I guess they were getting to understand that locals were realising the the so-called regional council was doing nothing for Upper Hutt.. So if they wasted millions on plantings we should be grateful. Amalgamation will mean Upper Hutt will be worse off and more expensively served. If you think the swimming pool was a money pit, wait till amalgamation.
Brett Weaver
Stay with Status Quo – don’t want to end up being the poor relation to Lower Hutt. Doesn’t stop both councils working together but gives UH residents a continued voice and our own council budget. Means my rates are going to UH and not to more wealthy LH residents.
thanks
Nadine Fathers
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