The Nelson City council's proposed LTCCP is an abuse of statutory power tantamount to theft by force.
The courts have ruled that these plans of council are "formal statements of intent", and as such they are clearly the formal process used to statutorily justify and authorise, the exercise of the legislative power, to levy money on the ratepaying subjects of the state.
Those plans are meant to be a line by line bookbuilding process that transparently notifies the full, cent by cent details, of the rating implications of any imposition that the plan will enable the council to take by statutory force.
This LTCCP does not even pretend to go there. Quite simply it is a sham and a scam. For example council freely admit, in that very plan, that it hasn't got a clue what the cost of the performing arts centre will be, and yet the plan intends reaching into ratepayers pockets and taking more than thirty million dollars by the draconian force of state, and yet it doesn't even know how much it will actually cost or what the full financial implications are for ratepayers.
How does the ratepayer know whether he is being overcharged or shortchanged. If that project costs less than that guesstimate plucked from god knows where, will the council refund that overcharged money? Will there be a cheque in the mail? Yeah right!
At the very least this is an abuse of legislative power, and at worst is theft by force, and might even be fraudulent to boot.
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- This blogspot is born out of a deep democratic concern about the continual political spin and the outright manipulation and suppression of information by local government and local media. In my view that rampant disinformation has become so extreme that it can only be considered grossly deceptive. This blogspot attempts to provide some balancing transparency to that situation. Hopefully it might even help keep the "buggers" honest.