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Speaker 1: Frying the bridge.

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Speaker 2: Totong A City Council has accepted a five year contract

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Speaker 2: for coffee machines so staff don't have to waste time

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Speaker 2: leaving the office for their fix the problem. The contract

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Speaker 2: is worth half a million dollars and includes five years

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Speaker 2: worth of coffee. They're less than seventy meters away from

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Speaker 2: the closest coffee shop, with several more nearby. As you

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Speaker 2: can imagine, rapeays are up in arms. Totonger City councilor

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Speaker 2: Steve Morris with me now, Hi, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Bryan.

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Speaker 2: How are you good? Can you understand the outrage?

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Speaker 1: Oh? I certainly can. When I first found out about

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Speaker 1: the sec where I certainly spat out my.

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Speaker 2: Milo Why half a million dollars?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So I've had a look at it and looked

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Speaker 1: into the detail. And there are roughly six hundred odd

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Speaker 1: people in this new council building, and if half of

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Speaker 1: them have a cup of coffee day over forty eight weeks,

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Speaker 1: five days a week, it's looking at about fifty five

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Speaker 1: sixty six cents per coffee. But when you look at

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Speaker 1: that four hundred and seventy thousand dollars, Sega, I thought

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Speaker 1: it must have been coming from that su matran civet

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Speaker 1: that eats coffee beans off the jungle floor and then

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Speaker 1: partially digests them and then people make a very very

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Speaker 1: expensive coffee out of it.

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Speaker 2: To the just a context of four hundred and seventy

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Speaker 2: thousand is for the machine, which is like a proper

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Speaker 2: barista machine, and the coffee beans for five years, but

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Speaker 2: not the milk right, and the milk correct one. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot of milk to froth it up, you need

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Speaker 2: a lot of milk to begin with, and then there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of waste of milk as well, so we

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Speaker 2: haven't counted that in the four seventy right.

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Speaker 1: No, it's not other than four seventy. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a conservative assumption that you've only got half the number

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Speaker 1: of public servants in the building having one coffee per day. True,

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Speaker 1: So I think I think it's a reason assumption. That

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Speaker 1: being said, it's a hell of a big number. And

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Speaker 1: I think in support of the Mears comment around user

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Speaker 1: pays as a way of selling a rather large budget

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Speaker 1: hole that we've been left by the commission, charity starts

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Speaker 1: at home, and perhaps we could be charging fifty cents

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Speaker 1: or even a dollar a coffee from our council organization

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Speaker 1: to recap the costs may start making money to be sex.

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Speaker 2: These are good to see, these are great ideas. But

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Speaker 2: people who are ratepayers, who just have been happed with

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Speaker 2: a twelve and a half percent rate increase, we'll be

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Speaker 2: listening to the thinking this is ridiculous. What are you

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Speaker 2: going to have a ten with people putting a dollar

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Speaker 2: or two dollars in? Why not just scrap the barista

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Speaker 2: style coffee all together and go with mconna hame.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, it does. That was a very interesting add

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Speaker 1: back in the nineties. I would certainly be in favor

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Speaker 1: of that. However, my understanding is that the tender document

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Speaker 1: has come back. So it was published on the council

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Speaker 1: website a month ago. I saw it, and so we've

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Speaker 1: got to work with what we've been left. And so

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Speaker 1: my viewers make the best out of a bad situation.

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Speaker 1: Get people with their swipe cards to login and you

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Speaker 1: get a dollar taken out of your your pay packet

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Speaker 1: for the next fortnite and go forward to it's complicated?

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Speaker 1: Does it?

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Speaker 2: Does it? Really does?

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Speaker 1: Steve?

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Speaker 2: I think the simple answer is just throw the machine

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Speaker 2: out and save yourself the money, Rip the contract up.

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Speaker 2: Steve Moris, who's they're telling? A counselor.

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