IAWAI Water Services Strategy

Generational Debt. If any business or home did this then they would soon be made bankrupt. How do you as a business plan to pay the loans and debt off at a rate that reduces and not keeps accumulating? We don't want another debacle like the Hamilton City Councils 1 billion dollar debt.
Page 7 -"OVER TIME, IAWAI WILL DELIVER WATER SERVICES FASTER, MORE COST-EFFECTIVELY AND MORE AFFORDABLY FOR THE PEOPLE WE SERVE.”
Remember that - You SERVE THE PEOPLE - do not forget this. You are our servants and this must remain at the forefront of making cost effective decisions for the Rate Payers and not the Share Holders payout.
Page 6. IAWAI is a publicly-owned water company formed by Waikato District Council and Hamilton City Council.
Page 12 under the heading - 'Shareholders statement of Expectation' - it states, Hamilton City Council, Waikato District
Council and Waikato-Tainui have jointly developed Statement of Expectations to guide our priorities and performance. The statement reflects our shared commitment to Te Ture Whaimana o Te Awa o Waikato and the partnership that underpins how we work together.
Why is Waikato-Tainui a shareholder? IAWAI is a Council partnership between Hamilton City Council and Waikato District Council. Rates are paid to Councils not Waikato-Tainui.
Please give the public the complete and true cost of Fluoridating the water supply so that the ratepayers can see how much this costs to keep their teeth healthy? As there may be better and cheaper solutions, therefore cutting costs for IAWAI?
Please share with the ratepayers and residents the processes of how the Fluoride is brought, where it comes from, is stored and put into the water supply? Waikato-Tainui should know this process and should be fully informed on this if they have a genuine interest in the quality of the water, the waste going into the river/awa, ocean/moana and the flora and fauna, birds, insects, fish and creatures that use this water to sustain life, including the people/tangata.
Page 16. Be financially sustainable (making sure our revenue consistently covers expenses). We need to live within our means.
This statement should read "making sure we live within the budget we have". Otherwise it sounds like you will go ahead with a project regardless of the costs and then put it onto the ratepayers.
Page 26. This graph looks frightening. So much for keeping costs low.

Yes

No

Water supplied and waste removal to a property should be one cost for the one property.
Say a home has 7 people living in it with one toilet, one bathroom, one kitchen, one laundry. They all use the same facilities. A second dwelling is built on the property and 2 of the 7 move into it. This doesn't create more water coming in or waste going out. It is still the same 7 people using the property/water/waste. Why does this then need to have extra charges? It sounds like just another money grabbing opportunity.

Letter / Flyer, email, community meetings at a variety of times that include morning, evening and afternoons.

Partially support

As you are the Servants of the Ratepayers my directive is to ensure you go above and beyond to make this affordable.

Partially support

You've well and truely got your butts covered.
Why is 5.12 a question?

No, these are my own personal views