24 Nov 2022

Auckland Councillor Maurice Williamson on cutting costs

From Checkpoint, 5:27 pm on 24 November 2022

Auckland Council's fiscal hole just got $25 million deeper overnight according to the Mayor.

Wayne Brown says the Reserve Bank forecasts unveiled yesterday have blown the city's budget shortfall out to $295 million.

A number that would take a 13 percent rates rise to plug. But the Expenditure Control and Procurement Committee are doubling down to the hunt for savings.

Its chair Maurice Williamson talks to Lisa Owen.