Annual Plan 2005/06 adopted
On 30 June, the Christchurch City Council finalised its Annual Plan for the 2005/06 year.
The plan, for the 12 months from 1 July, follows closely the commitments made in last year’s 2004-14 Long Term Council Community Plan. To maintain the levels of service set out in that long-term plan, the 2005/06 Plan requires an increase in the total rates take of 3.49 per cent.
That means an average city residence, worth a little under $260,000, will attract a rates bill of $1080 — about $21 a week.
“It has been a challenge to ensure the levels of service will be met, and to keep the rates increase as low as possible in light of the large increases in costs for many of our activities that are driven by the construction industry,” Roy Baker, the Council’s Corporate Services General Manager says. “This is evident from the rates increases facing other cities such as Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin with increases of 9.7, 7.68 and 5.90 per cent respectively.”
- A summary of the Annual Plan 2006 is included as a lift out in this publication. Copies of the full document are available from Council service centres and libraries, and on the Council’s website at www.ccc.govt.nz/ltccp/annualplan/
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