Presentation for: Nga Wai o Waipa Co Governance Forum - Waikato Regional Council

Presentation for:
Nga Wai o Waipa Co Governance
           Forum

We’re planning to spend
$973 million over the next 10 years

THE BIG ISSUES

3 Waters
    (water, stormwater, waste water)

• Biggest issue over the next ten years
• We need to spend more than $200million

• We’re proposing to upgrade Cambridge’s
  water treatment plant and pipelines to enable
  us to cope with current demand, allow for
  future growth and improve water pressure.

Te Awamutu Water Supply
   Option 1 (preferred)

Te Awamutu Supply
     Option 2

Waste water
• Major upgrade of Cambridge Treatment plant
  ($24M)
  – Possible savings from NIWA trial
• Upgrade of Te Awamutu Treatment plant
  ($13.5M)

Cycleways
• We are proposing to spend $1.2 million on a new
  3-metre wide concrete cycleway from Te Awamutu to
  Kihikihi

• But there are other options, including:
   – Building a 2-metre wide easy-riding metal cycleway from Te Awamutu
     to Pirongia
   – Contributing funds to help complete the Cambridge Green Belt
     cycleway
   – Contributing funds to the Te Awa River Ride Trust to help extend the
     existing river ride from the Avantidrome to Hamilton via Mystery
     Creek
   – Not spending any money on cycleways/walkways at all.

Te Awamutu Museum

•   Help tell the Waipa story
•   Key part of community hub
•   Requires $4M-$5M to be raised externally
•   $1.5M council funding provided
•   Construction unlikely before 2021

Rural Drainage
• Currently the council maintains less than
  10% of rural drains at an annual cost of around
  $90,000.

• We’re proposing the council take responsibility
  for maintaining all of Waipa’s public rural drains
  where these are defined. This would mean
  inspecting and spraying them each year, with a
  small portion also cleaned. This would cost
  around $322,000 in the first year.

Waipuke Park

• The 40-hectare site is made up of 30 hectares
  on an upper terrace and 10 hectares on a
  lower terrace that also includes a sizable
  beach on the shores of Lake Karapiro.

• We’ve budgeted $417,000 for work on the
  park to begin in 2015/16

Ongoing Commitments
• Maungatautari ($300k/yr)
• Peat Lakes restoration
  – Lake Mangakaware ($305k)
  – Lake Ngaroto ($1.1M)
• Heritage fund ($75k/yr)

Changing
         Our Rating System

• We’re suggesting some changes because it’s
  important rates are affordable. We need to ensure
  the rates we charge are as fair and as equitable as
  possible.

The proposed changes are not about increasing rates
 or about increasing the total amount of rates paid.
We would collect exactly the same amount of money
                      in rates.

What We’re
               Proposing…
Introducing a new rate called a Uniform Annual
General Charge (UAGC) - A UAGC is a fixed charge
applied to each separately used or inhabited part of a
property, like a granny flat or cottage

Reducing targeted ward rates - Targeted ward rates are
charged to property owners on a uniform per-property
basis in each ward in the district.

Increasing the percentage of our rates based on the
capital value of a property.

Rate Numbers

DEBT WILL PEAK AT
  $93 MILLION
                    This is affordable & required
                    for the growth we are facing.

                    The bulk of this is for
                    infrastructure work.

                    It is about spreading the costs
                    of infrastructure over
                    generations.

                    It may not be this high:
                    - $9m will be covered by development
                    contributions
                    - $3 will be covered by pensioner
                    housing rent
                    - WWTP costs could be reduced by
                    $15m.

HAVE YOUR SAY

Submissions will be open from 10 March
        through until 15 April.

 Make sure you tell us what you think.