$8,000 per wooden step!

The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance released:

he Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance can reveal through Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act that Auckland Council spent $263,000 on four sets of stairs for Milford Beach’s Southern Walkway.

As part of council’s coastal asset renewals programme, the total figure adds up to $8,218.75 per step, replaced like-for-like with the addition of a handrail.

Staggering, even for local government.

You can get sets of outdoor steps for a few hundred dollars. I could even imagine you spending a few thousand dollars on them – but over $60,000 each is incredible.=