Media Release
16 June 2006
Green Light for New Council Controlled Trading Organisation
Manukau City Council’s long term plan decisions finalised
Councillors at Wednesday night’s Manukau City Council meeting signed off the creation of Manukau Building Consultants
Services unit as a Council Controlled Trading Organisation (CCTO).
The decision to establish Leisure Services as a Council Controlled Organisation was deferred for four months. This will
allow the issues identified in submissions to be addressed, and reported back to Council. The extended timeframe will
still allow the CCO to be established in July 2007 if it is decided to proceed with it, chief financial officer Geoff
Foster says.
Other decisions included:
- New wastewater tariffs of $320 fixed annual charge for residential properties; $650 fixed annual charge for community
users such as churches, schools, and other community facilities; $950 for businesses, these applying to users up to 400
cubic metres per year
- Variable wastewater charges of $2.38 per cubic metre for usage over 400 cubic metres up to 25,000 cubic metres per
year. Charges for usage over 25,000 cubic metres will be by negotiation
- A water tariff of $1.143 per cubic metre
- A Network Growth Charge of about $1575 a year for each new water connection
- Pay and display for parking will apply on Davies Avenue, and at the Half-moon Bay boat ramp. The fees will not apply
to ferry users.
- Council’s proposed upgrade of its Housing for the Elderly units will go ahead in a two-stage programme between 2006
and 2010
- Funding for passenger transport and major roading improvements, such as the Auckland Manukau Eastern Transport
Initiative, the Whitford arterial road upgrade, the Waiouru Peninsula to SH1 connection, Ormiston Road upgrade and the
Great South Road-Beaumonts Bridge realignment, was approved.
The final Long Term Plan will be ratified at Council’s 29 June meeting, after it has been audited by Audit New Zealand.
The plan will be advertised in local newspapers in the first week of July and publicised in the council’s publication
Manukau Matters in the last week of July.
ENDS