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Speaker 1: No more disco lose for Wellington or any council. Actually,

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Speaker 1: this is what the rates cap is coming.

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Speaker 2: I want to be clear with councils that they should

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Speaker 2: not wait for the enactment of the rates capping model

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Speaker 2: before controlling rates increases to their constituents.

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Speaker 1: The band two to four percent unless you get sign

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Speaker 1: off from a government regulator not included water and other fees.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Little as the Wellington mayor joining us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Andrew right, So no more disco lose in

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Speaker 1: the future. Will you live with that?

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Speaker 3: I don't well. Right now our council is doing the

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Speaker 3: very thing that the government talked about to line by

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Speaker 3: line review. Winsteron City Council no doubt, like many others,

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Speaker 3: has to get its financial controls in order and getting

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Speaker 3: expending under control, and that's what we're doing. But in

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Speaker 3: terms of the specialized disabled toilets in a Courtney place,

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Speaker 3: there is a facility that is aimed at providing a

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Speaker 3: facility for some of the most profoundly disabled people who

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Speaker 3: do go to Courtney plasification.

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Speaker 1: So you're the cost that is this whole thing just

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Speaker 1: misnoma that the cost of it, how much of it

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Speaker 1: was on the lights and the design as opposed to

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Speaker 1: practical things like disability access.

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Speaker 3: Look, I don't know, I wasn't involved in the project.

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Speaker 3: I haven't here tod it. It's there now. But two

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Speaker 3: things that they were it was aimed to do. One

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Speaker 3: was more secure toilets because the ones that were there

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Speaker 3: previously were the scene of well it was pretty insecure,

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Speaker 3: pretty unsafe, but also a facility for particularly highly immobile

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Speaker 3: and disabled people to get exteitute that one of toilets

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Speaker 3: got to hoist in it. Another toilet's got a shower

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Speaker 3: in it when accidents happened. So it provides those facilities

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Speaker 3: very expensive. That is correct, And I don't know why

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Speaker 3: it's got the light show on the front of it,

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Speaker 3: but that's what the previous council proved.

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Speaker 1: Will there be no more light shows under Andrew Livel.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're root, we're cutting spending and we'll do It's

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Speaker 3: not a no, there's not a no. Come on, we're

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Speaker 3: not putting right shows on tour.

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Speaker 1: All right, very good and is two to four percent reasonable.

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Speaker 3: The problem with things like that is a lot of

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Speaker 3: a lot of the rates increases in the last few

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Speaker 3: years have been because of decades of underspending or under

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Speaker 3: waiting residents to look after infrastructure that sits under the ground,

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Speaker 3: and that's reality Wellington to the Count's borrowed to do

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Speaker 3: a lot of infrastructure infrastructure upgrades. The reality a lot

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Speaker 3: of that is water that gets shifted off to water

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Speaker 3: entities are not covered by the restriction, So we'll see

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Speaker 3: that how that happens. I think that the main thing

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Speaker 3: is what the governments tepped into is justified consume with

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Speaker 3: a lot of people seeing their rates going up at

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Speaker 3: an astronomical rate. At the same time it's going to

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Speaker 3: costs as well, but rates for councilors. They should do

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Speaker 3: a bit of job at keeping the spinning out of

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Speaker 3: control and we need to do that, isn't that questaper?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: We will see you go Andrew Little Wellington meet.

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