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THURSDAY MARCH 9, 2023
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MARCH 9, 2023
We’re back in the running
The crowds are back – and nowhere more in Waipā last weekend than when the annual Waipā fun run returned from Covid isolation and attracted almost 700 entries. The News camera was there to catch the action – see inside today on pages 8 and 9. Pictured ahead of the Year 5 and 6 race were Hautapu School runners, from left, Flynn Jones (246,) Cruden Cummings (100), Archie Dean (101), Mitchell Harrison (105) and Tennyson Brook (104). Photo: Mary Anne Gill
Rates: inflation hits By Mary Anne Gill
Waipā’s average rate increase will go up six per cent, but residential and commercial ratepayers will find themselves paying way more than that because the value of their properties are about to increase significantly.
It is in Cambridge where the real pain will be felt from July because house and building values have gone up far more than in the rest of the district. The six per cent increase could have been worse. Before Christmas district councillors and
staff had been looking at 12-13 per cent increases across the district’s 24,254 rateable properties. Debate at this week’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee about the Annual Plan for 2023-24 was muted as many councillors opted to put questions to staff by email prior
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to the meeting. Several times deputy chief executive Ken Morris referred to the questions and answers provided by email the night before. The News requested the emails and the council provided them during the meeting.
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