Courtesy of New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union

 

By now a good portion of the voters realise that the decisions made by councilors and MPs are controlled by external forcers in this country. Its the people in the council that write up the statute law and council by laws that are in control. Councilors rarely get the time to read everything put in front of them let alone be given enough time to thing about it. ask them they will say this is true.

 

𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐃𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 $𝟕.𝟕 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩

The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming Christchurch City Council after The Press revealed the Council’s MyChristchurch “digital platform” has cost ratepayers $7.7 million, despite councillors initially being led to believe they were funding an app.

Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Josh Van Veen said:

“Christchurch ratepayers have forked out $7.7 million and ended up with a website. If elected representatives did not know what they were approving, ratepayers deserve to know why.”

“The Council can dress it up as a ‘digital platform’, but that does not explain how this project has cost the equivalent of 1,962 households’ worth of rates. At a time when rates are soaring, every dollar blown on bloated IT projects is a dollar not going to core services.”

“This fiasco shows exactly why local government reform is needed. Elected councillors are meant to be in charge, but too often management controls the information and leaves them playing catch-up.”

“Council officials need to come clean on where the money went, why councillors were left in the dark about what was being delivered, and how a website ended up costing ratepayers millions.”

“Ratepayers need a system that gives councillors the power to properly scrutinise spending and stop bureaucrats pulling the wool over the eyes of the people elected to hold them accountable.