Help WCC with their long-term plan
The Wellington City Council has set up a facebook group, where Wellingtonians can discuss what they want for Wellington, to feed into consideration of the ten year Long Term Council Community Plan.
So you can read the full plan if you are a policy wonk like me, or you can just go to the Facebook group and make a couple of comments. This is a good example of easy community outreach, so make use of it.
My high level principles would be:
- Rates should not increase faster than inflation, plus population growth.
- Library services should be the last area to reduce services, as access to information is vital in a free society
- Parks & Recreation also score highly as a priority
- Leave the Town Belt alone or perish
- Non public good activities should be user pays as much as possible.
- WCC should not provide services that are the role of central Government, unless they receive funding for them. This includes housing, welfare, education and health.
- Do everything you can to make it easy for companies to lay fibre in the city, and to connect it to people’s homes.
- Some modest funding is okay to areas important to Wellington’s brand – culture, Wellywood etc. We don’t want to be a Canberra.
- Smarter public transport services – Snapper is good start but too few buses accept it. GPS updates at bus stops would be good. Realise mainly WRC issue.
- Please do not give any more of our money to the Stock Exchange (NZX) for their external display ticker.