UPDATE ON SAVE THE POINT / THE TRUE COST TO THE RATEPAYERS
THE TRUE COST OF THE MARINE EDUCATION CENTRE
1999 $75,000 Feasibility study
1999 $75,000 Feasibility study
2004 $120,000 Annual Plan towards the cost of preparation pre-construction phases/documents for the proposed visitor attraction and educational facility.
2005/6 $360,000 Complete the pre-construction phase
2005/6 May $200,000 Second hearing and Environment Court costs
Total $ 755,000
This doesn't include time of council officers since 1999 till now / plus consultants and legal advice, as well as paying for the following reports
Maunsell Report
Stafford Report
Greenstone Report
KPMG
I'm picking this has cost the ratepayers over 1.5 million dollars so far.
This does not include the $7 million non-recourse loan towards building MEC
Opponents have had to meet legal and experts' costs of over $200,000 plus time of the core of volunteers and expert witnesses who gave their time, etc gratis.
All this is a consequence of Council failing to discuss with the community alternative sites for the proposal. Both the Environment Court and the Commissioners at the resource consent hearings noted that the whole site selection process was faulty and that other sites were available.
Total $ 755,000
This doesn't include time of council officers since 1999 till now / plus consultants and legal advice, as well as paying for the following reports
Maunsell Report
Stafford Report
Greenstone Report
KPMG
I'm picking this has cost the ratepayers over 1.5 million dollars so far.
This does not include the $7 million non-recourse loan towards building MEC
Opponents have had to meet legal and experts' costs of over $200,000 plus time of the core of volunteers and expert witnesses who gave their time, etc gratis.
All this is a consequence of Council failing to discuss with the community alternative sites for the proposal. Both the Environment Court and the Commissioners at the resource consent hearings noted that the whole site selection process was faulty and that other sites were available.
posted by pepptalk at 10:56 PM
2 Comments:
Prendergast showed herself to be a liar on National Radio.
She is.
How about having these figures published Pepp?
The Dom Post are in her pocket, so try the Listener.
Any paper with circulation!
Thanks Bryan for the update: But what about the cost to the community?
As we speak Save the Point campaigners need to raise their share of the Environment Court costs which has not been calculated into the final figures so add another $ 200.000.
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