A LOCAL ISSUE / VRYN EVANS SPEAKS OUT

From: Burma Road Tyres [mailto:burmardtyres@xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Friday, 5 March 2010 4:25 p.m.
To: Bryan Pepperell
Subject: Re: A Local Issue

As I've , you and many other citizens of Wellington have expressed on numerous occasions that WCC under the Blumsky/Prendergastly regimes are totally out of control , together with self-serving Council bureaucrats acting as though the citizens of Wellington are their 'slaves - mind you this is also equally applicable to central government (un)civil bureaucrats. Unfortunately, as has also been stated many many times, Wellington's voting citizenary has itself to blame for our appalling voter turnout for local body elections, coupled with lack of passionate interest in local body affairs means that we get the local body politicians we deserve and the distasteful and all too often the erroneous decisions that follow.

Commonsense would have suggested that high level WCC financial expenditures on cosmetic changes, particularly during these fiscally constrained times would have been the last items to even be considered ? Remember that song "Hey Big Spender" ?

As you say Rates are a Tax and the quicker that homeowners get their head around this the better the understanding of how local and central goverbments' derive their respective incomes.

That old analogy of Nero fiddling could not be truer, and in WCC's case not just musically !

Many Blessings upon your furrowed brow.

Vryn