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Rates set as mayor Hamish McDouall hopes for a better way

Zaryd Wilson
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19 Jul, 2018 08:00 PM2 mins to read

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Whanganui District councillors have struck rates for 2018/19.

Whanganui District councillors have struck rates for 2018/19.

Rates have been struck for the next year amid hopes for better ways to fund councils.

Whanganui District councillors met on Thursday to confirm rates, with a 4.2 per cent average rise across the district, for the financial year from July 1.

Notices will be posted next month.

Ninety-one properties added to the district over the past year will help contribute to the $67.5million collected by the council for the year.

The capital value of the district has increased by $70m up to $6.8b with $53m of the increase coming in the residential sector.

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Council finance general manager Mike Fermor said council needed to balance keeping rates down with paying off debt in key areas like stormwater and roading.

"Which I think makes it sustainable, which is great," he said.

"These rates ensure that we have adequate loan repayments with those areas."

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Whanganui mayor Hamish McDouall said it was timely there was a Government-led "in-depth study on the way local government is funded".

"We've got people who know what they're doing, I hope, and I've committed to pursuing ways other than rates to fund local government - that's not excluding rates - but other ways," he said.

"Having just attended the local government conference and hearing some fairly eye-watering figures coming from other districts, I think we're doing quite well."

Deputy mayor Jenny Duncan reminded residents there was a rates rebate available for low income people.

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"So [there is] a strong encouragement for our ratepayer base to do that," she said.

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