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Speaker 1: Together do for c Ellen.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely no marrow, isn't it. But unfortunately the Auckland rate

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Speaker 2: Payers Alliance is really not getting into the mood of

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Speaker 2: things and they're all barhambag at an enormous Christmas tree

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Speaker 2: that's going to go up in central Wellington at the

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Speaker 2: bottom of Central Auckland Sory at the bottom of Queen Street.

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Speaker 2: That's stressed about the thing costing one point two to

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Speaker 2: one point three million dollars, most of which comes from

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Speaker 2: the council. Heart of the city is also putting some

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Speaker 2: cash towards it, and the chief Executive Vi Becker's with us, Hey,

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Speaker 2: Viv Hello, Now Viv. I was all like, oh, you

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Speaker 2: know cost per year, it's fine, But then somebody sent

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Speaker 2: me a text for then they said, you are putting

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Speaker 2: in four hundred thousand and precing properties, you're putting in

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Speaker 2: four hundy. The Council's putting in four hundy and then

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Speaker 2: every year it's going to cost us four hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: to put the thing up and put take it down.

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Speaker 1: No, I think no. And the first thing is council

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Speaker 1: is putting in a contribution of the City Center Targeted Rate,

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Speaker 1: which is paid for by city Center property owners, businesses

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Speaker 1: and residents. It's not being paid for out of general rates,

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Speaker 1: so the Auckland rate payer outside the city center is

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Speaker 1: not paying for this, but we'd love them to come

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Speaker 1: and enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: So this is money and.

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Speaker 1: In terms of the operating cost so count what's happened

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Speaker 1: is that you might remember a bit of an outcry

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Speaker 1: when we retired cents for a few years ago. We

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Speaker 1: always said we would bring another significant attraction for Christmas

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Speaker 1: to the city center. It's been a bit of a long,

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Speaker 1: sad process for us because of COVID and a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of things you won't want to hear about that.

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Speaker 1: The reality is what's exciting about this is the partnership

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Speaker 1: with presint properties and councils support recognizing the importance of

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Speaker 1: rejuvenating the city center with the targeted rate contribution means

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Speaker 1: we can do something bigger, better, brighter. We're coming out

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Speaker 1: of ten years of construction, COVID, the worst impacts in

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Speaker 1: the country, all the stuff you know well about. We

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Speaker 1: are aspiring to be an international city and we want

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Speaker 1: to do something fabulous, and the operating cost Council has

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Speaker 1: said we'll support the first few years as a contribution

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Speaker 1: without heart of the city and precinct properties and then

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Speaker 1: you're on your own. So they are not contributing beyond

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Speaker 1: some initial obviously the share of the purchase, which you're right,

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Speaker 1: it does need to be considered over the term of

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Speaker 1: the investment. And look at Sandre lasted sixty years, so

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Speaker 1: we're not making a promise to have the tree for

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Speaker 1: sixty years. But the realist we want it to be

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Speaker 1: an enduring investment. We want kids to come and love

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Speaker 1: it and enjoy it for many, many years to come.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So how much does the tree actually cost one

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Speaker 2: point two for million, and how much is the putting

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Speaker 2: up and getting it down cost?

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Speaker 1: Well, that varies a bit. It's not I haven't got

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Speaker 1: those exact figures in front of me, but the council

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Speaker 1: targeted rates share contributes towards what precinct and us are

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Speaker 1: putting in now and for at least the next year

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Speaker 1: or so, depending on how much it up exactly costing

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Speaker 1: on an ongoing basis, and we don't exactly know that yet,

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Speaker 1: but we're it'll be put up locally with local resources,

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Speaker 1: and we want it to be as streamlined as and

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Speaker 1: cost effective as possible.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Viv, thank you very much, appreciate your time. That's

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Speaker 2: Viv Beck, Heart of the City, chief executive. This was

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Speaker 2: the text, Heather. Only the purchase price of four hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand can be spread over ten years. The other four

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand is per year for putting it up and

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Speaker 2: putting it down. That's successive. Don't send me lies like

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Speaker 2: that because now look I gave the lie to Vivid.

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Speaker 2: Now we had to deal with the lie. At least

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Speaker 2: we shut the lie down. But be sure about your stuff.

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Speaker 2: A four hundred thousand put a tree up, mate, that's

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Speaker 2: a lot of money.

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