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The proposed boundaries for the four planned water entities. Under the Government’s “preferred” boundaries, the drinking water, storm water and wastewater services provided by Nelson City Council along with most of the three water services provided by Marlborough District and Tasman District councils will be amalgamated into “entity C”, which also includes the east coast of the North Island, down to and including Wellington. The water services for Palmerston North are also included in the proposed boundary for entity C. Utikere, a former deputy mayor who was on the Palmerston North City Council for 10 years before winning a seat in Parliament at the 2020 general election, said the “whole point of having these entities is efficiencies, meeting that longer-term need and focus”.
The newly implemented trial gardens on Ruha St have created two one-way areas for traffic. “It was a good idea, but they’ve made them too big,” Tom Ragg said. “They’ve obviously put them opposite [each other] so you have to go through them one at a time, but we now find that people have to stop out the front of our place.” There had been a decrease in heavy traffic along the road as the gardens made the street too thin for trucks to pass through, he said. Annette Ragg said she almost had a fit when she saw the size of the gardens placed opposite each other.
Cr Aleisha Rutherford said maintaining services alone would need a 1 per cent rise. “The rates we have set are fair. There’s [a] huge level of investment in areas that affect vulnerable members of the community.” Mayor Grant Smith said the council kept rates artificially low last year during Covid-19 to support the community. “Nobody likes to raise rates, it’s a very unpopular decision, but sometimes you need to pay the piper. “The city is growing and we’re not the same as we were a year ago.” He said the council needed to maintain its infrastructure spending, otherwise there would be burst pipes, potholed roads, groups with no funding and the community would be much poorer.
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