A drop in funding of nearly $500,000 to the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust is set to go ahead, a grant allocation board says.
Vern Walsh, chairman of the Auckland Regional Amenities Board, confirmed this afternoon the proposal to cut the trust's grant from $900,000 to $450,00 over the next financial year had been approved by the board.
The trust's grant had already been reduced from $1.2 million to $900,000 last year - and it was staunchly opposing further reductions.
"We make a recommendation which we've done today, that then goes off to Auckland Council and then the Auckland Council can either accept or not accept that recommendation,'' Mr Walsh said.
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