29th - Kaipara Konnection - Dargaville.BIZ

Freedom is the right to tell people what
they do not want to hear. -- George Orwell
pay your rates and get things moving while the “noes” have a list of 13 points which they demand be addressed before
any rate payments start again. These are:
1. A forensic examination, with community participation, into the entire conduct of the KDC back as far as necessary is
completed and published.
2. The legality of all debt is investigated and where there are defects in the deeds, executions, or other documentation
the lenders are put on notice that there will be no further payments against such loans until and unless they are correctly
engrossed, and tied back to lawful council resolutions that followed on from correct consultative procedures.
3. All illegal/ultra vires rates are identified, publicly disclosed, admitted to, and all monies collected under them are either
refunded, with interest, or credited against future payments. Where capital charges and operating charges were levied
early against some ratepayers, those who were charged early must be paid interest representing the cost of that capital
during the time that it was unavailable to the affected ratepayers. Ombudsman asked community to specify what interest
rate would be fair, in regard to the 2008/9 operating charge but never instructed council to pay it because the matter was
handed over to the Auditor General. All operating charges levied while the scheme was incomplete were blatantly illegal,
and must be refunded, with interest. Capital charges should probably stand, even though they were illegally levied.
Interest on these should be refunded.
4. A correctly constituted new Long Term Plan - a legal, consulted, one is developed and passed.
The new Plan must be based on adequate notice (that is, proper formal notification), adequate background information,
proper community consultation, and hearings attended by all commissioners who listen to and heed the community’s
views. The new plan must contain a formal written commitment that the rates prediction in the out years of the
commission’s tenure will not be varied upwards under any circumstances.
5. When the level of rating has been REDUCED/ADJUSTED to a point where it represents reasonable value for money
to the ratepayer compared with what is received by comparable ratepayers elsewhere.
6. Proceedings have been commenced against everyone found to have been engaged in fraud, deception, theft,
criminal negligence, and/or professional misconduct.
7. The contribution to the situation attributable to the negligence/ incompetence of Audit NZ has been identified and
acknowledged.
8. The huge number of anomalies and errors in the Rating database have been identified, clarified and fixed.
9. A new Statement of Proposal issued for the central government subsidy , this should be applied and accounted for at
individual rating unit level