Little’s Triennium Plan

Andrew Little has released his Triennium Plan for WCC. Let’s take a look at it.

Create a $50,000 per annum External Legal Advice Fund for representatives to test the council organisation’s legal advice by seeking an external legal opinion.

Excellent. Really important governors can access legal advice directly.

Strive to keeping rates as low as practicable in an effort to make Wellington more affordable, while acknowledging there will always be a range of views about what that means.

I blogged in September what that would look like. “Well the Whanau Council has a 12% rates increased planned for next year, so a minimal success would be getting that to under 10%. The current Council has further rates increases of 7% for out years. So rates increases of under 5% from 27/28 would qualify.”

Protect the Council’s ownership stake in Wellington International Airport Ltd.

Why? As a minority shareholder you have no real say, and it means you are not independent when dealing with the airport. I’d sell the airport shares and invest it in water infrastructure.

Rapidly review approved capital projects valued at $1 million or more where construction has not started (or a future tranche has not started), so representatives have assurance each is realistic and affordable.

Good.

Any identified expected cost escalation of more than 5 percent in any project worth $1 million or more must be reported in writing within 7 days to the Chair of the project’s authorising committee and the Mayor’s Office

Good, but amazing this was not already the case.

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