Here are the total rates taken off Rakino Island (excluding GST), supplied by Auckland City Council--under the Local Government Official Information & Meetings Act. Why does even a member of the Waiheke Community Board have to use LGOIMA to prise such figures out of the empire? Rakino comes within Waiheke's bailiwick, and s52 of the Local Government Act 2002 says community boards have to keep an overview of what is going on. How is that possible without knowing the numbers. They should be supplied without asking, as a matter of course.
2005-2006 $115,405
2006-2007 $181,055 (a rise of 56.89%)
2007-2008 $192,216 (a rise of 6.16%)
Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Waiheke from the west (the end nearest Auckland)
About Me
- Nobilangelo
- My Christian name is pronounced 'noble-arn-jillo' (i.e., both o's are long, so the first two syllables rhyme with 'noble' not 'hobble'--yes, I know that's obvious, because there's only one 'b' between the 'o' and the 'i', but some people seem to see two b's, hence the English lesson). My surname is pronounced kerra-marliss. I was born, bred and educated in New Zealand, except for an international systems-engineer's course in San Antonio, Texas. I am born-again Christian, a thinker with a very practical turn of mind, a scientist with a particular interest in planet-friendly energy and neuroscience, an engineer (mechanical, industrial and IT systems), an inventor, a Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a writer and poet, a naturist, a designer in different fields, an arranger and composer of symphonic music, a multi-award-winning IT journalist, a photographer, and a practitioner at various times in other hands-on fields including building, metalwork, woodwork, stained-glass and landscaping.