Those who made submissions on the 2018-2038 Long Term Plan back in April will have received a response in the last few days nominally from the Mayor, in practice written by the council spin doctors, on the issues they mentioned.
Needless to say, they consist of parallel answers (see the definition in the book The New Gobbledygook) and don’t tell you anything (much) that wasn’t in the consultation document.
You can read what each submitter had to say, as they are all on pdf’s, on this KCDC webpage (ours is no. 176).
Yep, received a similar response with answers to 3 of the concerns I expressed in my submission. I was wrong on all three. No answers to 15 or so other points in my submission but I’m pretty sure I was wrong about every one of those too. What a waste of ratepayers’ money, particularly disappointing since that was one of the points I raised in my submission “I want a Council that is mean and lean administratively so all revenues are spent to the benefit of the community.” Oh well ….