Wow, the Nelson City council are so contemptuous of the public that they treat us like morons. A cheaper performing arts centre is planned, Yeah right.
Well if thats the case, then council needs to go back to skool and learn some basic mathematics.
Because the public private partnership deal has collapsed around councils ears, means that the ratepayers will now have to pick up the whole tab for the entire project.
The LTCCP made it very clear that the $32.5M cost was just the ratepayers share of the project, with the private partners share being additional to, or on top of that figure.
Now that the private partner has evaporated into thin air, then the ratepayer gets to shoulder the entire burden, of the whole project.
However because council has kept the full cost of the whole project secret, then that figure is an unknown quantity.
But on the presumption that the partnership was an equal partnership, then that figure could have been anywhere up to $65M or more.
Even though the $4M cost of the land purchase might drop out of the equation, that still does not create a cheaper project, no matter what sleight of hand is used.
It is entirely contemptuous of the public for council to even attempt to call that increased cost committment, a price reduction. What a load of bollocks.
In fact the land deal has apparently already soured, and may well become a contractual nightmare, that could end up costing ratepayers dearly.
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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.