Consultation on Auckland Council’s Revenue and Financing Policy closed on 22 March 2021. Thank you for having your say.

The Governing Body adopted amendments to this policy on 29 June 2021. You can read the report, including a summary of the feedback we received, and the decision made in the minutes of the Governing Body meeting.

About the Revenue and Financing Policy

Our Revenue and Financing Policy sets out the:

• funding tools available to us (for example rates and fees for services like building consents)
• factors we consider when deciding which tools to use
• decisions we have made on how to fund each of our activities.

What we need your feedback on

We propose the following amendments to our Revenue and Financing Policy (in line with the proposals for the 10-year Budget 2021-2031):

• change the matters used to define the general rate Urban Rating Area to include activities that are permitted, controlled, or discretionary for the area in which the land is situated, and the rules to which the land is subject under the Auckland Unitary Plan
• change service being funded by the Accommodation Provider Targeted Rate to remove reference to ATEED (now part of Auckland Unlimited)
• add the Electricity Network Resilience Targeted Rate applicable to Vector Limited only to fund the maintenance of trees near powerlines
• add the Rodney Drainage Districts Targeted Rate to fund maintenance of drainage assets in the drainage districts
• add the Clevedon Wastewater and Water Connection Targeted Rate to fund connection costs to reticulated wastewater and water systems
• updates to reflect our revised timing for fully funding depreciation
• updates to clarify the description of the long-term differential strategy.

For more information about the proposed amendment please refer to Section 7: Additional supporting information pages 459 - 522, 531 - 548 of the Supporting Information for the 10-year Budget 2021-2031.

If the proposed changes to the Revenue and Financing Policy are not made, then the council will be unable to implement the changes to rates, and approach to fund depreciation, proposed as part of the 10-year Budget 2021-31 consultation.

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