Council Consultants: Value for Money or Money for Jam?
💰🔍 Council Consultants: Value for Money or Money for Jam? 💰🔍
Watercare has spent nearly $11 million on 57 external consultants, contractors and other private vendors for the Huia water treatment plant “without a sod being turned on the troubled project”.
The water treatment plant, which supplies about 20% of Auckland’s water from dams in the Waitākere Ranges, has blown out from $420m in 2018 to $1.12 billion and is years behind schedule.
Is this where Papatoetoe’s IGC money went? They didn’t get their upgrade in spite of a large number of new homes built and paying nearly enough in growth charges to go into their upgrade … merely a postulation….
For years I would plan houses, travel widely and observe communities. I also had the privilege of working for New Zealand's largest dairy company in both New Zealand and Malaysia. All the while supported by my husband and young daughter. After a while, our roles swapped and we moved to the Arabian Gulf. Meanwhile my passion for property and communities continued to simmer.
Along came COVID and had no choice but to pivot... in the words of Robert Frost, I looked for and "found the road less travelled by" and decided that maybe I could "make [a] the difference".
I look for to find insights and built a few of the houses that we need. This means a saleable house and a profitable and sustainable business.
