Submission details
| Submission ID | 10435 |
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| Name | Nidhita Gosai |
| Date | 11 April 2026 |
| 1. Do you have any feedback on the IAWAI Water Services Strategy? |
What controls are in place to make sure costs don’t blow out in the future for rate payers? The purpose of creating IAWAI has been sold as a partnership with WDC and Waikato Tainui to make costs cheaper but in reality this CCO has been created so that it can incur more debt on the current assets which rate payers will have to pay for. It’s well known that many water assets are not keeping up capacity wise and poor decisions have been made in both councils when it’s come to infrastructure upgrades. What’s the mitigations against past poor decisions reoccurring in the future in IAWAI that will cost the rate payers? Will council have full visibility in regards to IAWAI’s spending?
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| 2a. Do you support a growth pays for growth approach for new residential and commercial developments, including the use of growth charges to help fund growth-related infrastructure and services? |
No
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| Please provide comment. |
Council workers are being paid a lot more than workers doing similar roles in the private sector yet. There are also more workers than there should be and the council needs to down size and then use that money to fund growth. Enough of increasing charges for the residents of Hamilton because council planners have made poor planning plans and there has been mismanagement of rate payers money for upgrades.
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| 2b. In the current residential growth charges proposal secondary minor dwellings (i.e. granny flats) may be treated as ½ HUE. Do you support treating secondary minor dwellings as ½ HUE? If you have an alternative proposal, please explain. |
Partially support
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| Please explain. |
This makes sense but only if the home owners don’t have to pay more charges to the council in other ways like consenting etc.
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| 3. How would you prefer IAWAI engage you? |
Website, Social media, Public signage, Letter / Flyer, E-newsletter, Surveys, Focus groups, Events (online or in person), All IAWAI senior managers need to front up and be accountable to the public about decisions they make, budgets and planning
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| 4. Do you support IAWAI’s Significance and Engagement Policy? |
Partially support
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| 5. Do you have any feedback on the Significance and Engagement Policy? |
Having a policy is great but IAWAI can’t be trusted unless it actually does what the policy says and adheres to it.
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| 6. Do you support IAWAI'S Waiver Policy? |
Partially support
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| Are you giving feedback on behalf of an organisation? |
No, these are my own personal views
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