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Speaker 1: Welcome in meal, Liz, Good morning, green fingered meal, Liz

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Speaker 1: at that can't say I had our text exchange on

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Speaker 1: my Tuesday morning bingo card. But first thing, it would

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Speaker 1: have been about six thirty this morning, I get a

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Speaker 1: message from you saying would you like some rhubarb? I

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Speaker 1: thought random? But okay, no, well stocked with rhubarb because

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Speaker 1: it was it must be the season for it had granted,

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Speaker 1: Dave dropped me some last week and we only really

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Speaker 1: use it like crumples. And even then I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: cut back on that because, as you can see, need

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Speaker 1: to get my dare bod sorded. And then you said,

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Speaker 1: would you like some broccoli? I said absolutely I would,

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Speaker 1: So here it is.

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Speaker 2: You go, yeah, a bit of broccoli out of the garden.

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Speaker 1: Have you got quite the quite the set up there?

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Speaker 2: Not really, but I do plant my broccol sort of

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Speaker 2: in the winter months and then they just kind of

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Speaker 2: grow slowly and then yeah about now, I've just I've

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Speaker 2: had so much broccoli.

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Speaker 1: I've never been able to keep them from bolting and

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Speaker 1: seeding everywhere. I think one year we even tried eating

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Speaker 1: it like that and it was tough as old boots.

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Speaker 1: How do you sort of keep them like that.

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Speaker 2: Packed them early so as soon as they grow that

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Speaker 2: one's probably not the best one, but the other ones

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Speaker 2: look good.

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Speaker 1: I'm holding up the wrong example. No, I'm stoked because

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Speaker 1: broccoli is Alice's favorite veggie. Who would have thought. And actually,

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Speaker 1: here's a life hack for some of the other parents

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Speaker 1: out there. I think I picked this up from Nadia Limb.

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Speaker 1: So of course we always go for the florettes at

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Speaker 1: the top. And it's always been of fun, sort of

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Speaker 1: telling your kids, Hey, look, you're a dinosaur and you're

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Speaker 1: eating the tree numb. But Nadia said, once you get

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Speaker 1: to that, all the goodness is in the stem, right,

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Speaker 1: So you cut off, you know, some of the overhanging branches.

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Speaker 1: I guess you peel it, and then you cut it

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Speaker 1: into rounds, and all of a sudden you've got broccoli bites,

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Speaker 1: broccoli biscuits. And Alice absolutely loves it. Although rod from

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Speaker 1: my own back, because every time we buy broccoli now,

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Speaker 1: she doesn't want the top of it. She only wants

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Speaker 1: to stem.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, give that one a go.

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Speaker 1: Best possible issue to have, isn't it. Hey, I feel

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Speaker 1: like we've got to tackle the big topic of the

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Speaker 1: day rates. Government wants it to cap them at four percent.

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Speaker 1: Is it doable?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. I reread the letter from the minister

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Speaker 2: again this morning and they're saying it's not a cat

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Speaker 2: but a rate's target model. So we've got between two

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Speaker 2: and four percent that we.

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Speaker 1: Need to target, but the ceiling is four The ceiling.

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Speaker 2: Is four percent. You can apply for exemptions if there's

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Speaker 2: something that is needed because this includes everything except for water,

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Speaker 2: so it includes all the roading.

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Speaker 1: Water is the big one, right. I saw an article

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Speaker 1: in the Guardian, I think it was last week or

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Speaker 1: the week before where Hamish was saying that there's essentially

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Speaker 1: ten percent extra coming just for the water stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it's yeah, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: a lot of work to be done on what happens next.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, we've been told it's in place from the

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Speaker 2: first July twenty twenty nine, so is still a long

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Speaker 2: way away, and there's a transition period sort of between

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Speaker 2: till January next year and then. So yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: I know cost of living's pressure is as high at

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Speaker 2: the moment, so how tough councilors want to want to

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Speaker 2: keep rates low.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, well, from your perspective. How tough is that

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Speaker 1: when you're around the table deciding And I think back

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Speaker 1: to our final chat with Neil Brown a couple of

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Speaker 1: months back, and he sheared, you know, from his view

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Speaker 1: just how difficult it is to peel back on council spending,

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Speaker 1: and particularly when you consider that here in Ashburton. You

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Speaker 1: know we've got one of the largest roading networks in

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Speaker 1: the country. You know, there's always demand on council services.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be tricky's that's for sure. And I

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Speaker 2: guess it's about you know, and we've seen models of

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Speaker 2: rakes kepping over in Australia where it kind of hasn't

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Speaker 2: worked because they haven't been able to spend on the infrastructure,

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Speaker 2: and then they'll apply for an exemption and they kind

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Speaker 2: of save it all up for five years and then yeah,

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Speaker 2: apply for an exemption and then you get a really

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Speaker 2: big rates increase. So yeah, there's a lot to kind

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Speaker 2: of work through.

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Speaker 1: Is that the risk in the coming couple of years

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Speaker 1: before the camp kicks in that we're just going to

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Speaker 1: try and get it as high as we can rake

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Speaker 1: it in early?

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Speaker 2: I don't think so, because it sounds like they bring

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Speaker 2: in a regulator in so if that happens, they know

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Speaker 2: that we definitely won't be we have to do that.

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Speaker 1: No fest of fuzzies to finish on Liz Light up

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Speaker 1: the night, said day, How good was that? Oh?

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Speaker 2: It was amazing. What a great crowd.

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Speaker 1: And all that. How excited were those kids. We had

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Speaker 1: a mosh pit at the front and young hiding McLennan

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Speaker 1: are doing a wonderful job of pushing the button. And

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Speaker 1: then yesterday the fest of stuff continued for you. He's

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Speaker 1: just a quick clip. You were actually a network center.

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Speaker 1: One of the most magnificent trees. Yeah, maybe aside from

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Speaker 1: the one and Bearing Square to be seen around town.

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Speaker 1: And there's sort of a bit of a tradition where

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Speaker 1: we invite a local school each year to come and

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Speaker 1: hang a ball ball on the tree. That's right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so they sing a few Christmas carols as well. Bonus,

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Speaker 2: yesterday Hempstead came along and the Coppa Hacker group came

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Speaker 2: as well. So they started with three Christmas carols, a

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Speaker 2: bit of dancing, so polished, so talented, and then the

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Speaker 2: Coppa Hacker group finished up and I think after they

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Speaker 2: sang to me and a couple of in the staff.

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Speaker 2: They moved round to the pool and sing to their

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Speaker 2: equicise ladies so ladies and men, I guess, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: look great, Oh what a tree. Sounded amazing