What has Dunedin got to show for its ballooning debt, other than ballooning rates increases always many times the rate of inflation?
Ballooning DCC staff numbers? and what else?
https://www.odt.co.nz/…/council-set-hoist-borrowing…
We should promote local businesses, stop the ludicrous spending, stop the $60 million George st/Exchange ‘surface treatments’ which is code for turning the City Centre into another cycleway, stop the $10 million park and ride experiment and the other $10 million for ‘way-finding’ carparks instead of making them, stop colouring our roads, reverse the recent massive increase in DCC staff numbers, and then there are another 100+ ways to save money as below:
Lee Vandervis 
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Sooo true … and I think Dunedin people are sick of it … coloured roads, feet, cycleways etc. but feel powerless!!!! To have only one road (and now cluttered with lights, lanes etc) to the way north out of the city will be a disaster!! What on earth inspired such nonsense!! And how to undo it all? I fear even if you become mayor (my vote!!!) you may not have the power to change it! Loved your Gardens speech …
When the eye watering inflation kicks in, ensure those politicians responsible for aye-ing the debt, be called to account.
Highest inflation for 10 years. This is going to have everyone in Dunners walking and hitching a ride.
https://tradingeconomics.com/new-zealand/inflation-cpi