Submission details
| Submission ID | 9443 |
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| Name | Josh Brown |
| Date | 29 March 2026 |
| 1. Do you have any feedback on the IAWAI Water Services Strategy? |
It has no detail on Operating costs. Councils are typically very heavy in overheads and indirect costs. A primary reason for these entities was to create benefits from scale. Unsure where that is in these $$?
What are the costs of non front-line (physical contact or adminitiring assets directly) FTE and other opex? Has IAWAI adopted any functions or operarting models from exsisting councils? Growth charges and Debt movements are just cases of moving money - there is no display of actual saving money or demonstration of efficent management. A detailed explanation of Opex - exactly why all these costs are crucial to keep water flowing would be useful. Is there actual $$ demonstration in the current numbers re the savings model from scale, adding two entities together? |
| 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. |
It pulls the ladder up on first home buyers.
Whilist they drive the cost, they're actually the ones who can't afford it the most. Exsisting rate payers got their house/connection/growth for free, and now have signifcant equity and on average more wealth than the ones you are enforcing a new charge on. Lastly, this will increase the price of homes which a) the new home builder pays for and b) the exsisting homeowners just get free equity for it. So it's a 2x whammy in costing the group who can't afford it and giving more to the group who can afford it. It doesn't follow construct of wider tax/revenue gathering from Goverments. What if a new school or hospital followed this? Those who broke their arm whilst the old hospital had capacity got it for free, vs when the capacity is gone they have to pay 100% of it? What about reverse growth? If I have an exsisting property with 3 connections and bring it down to 1? Do I get $1,000 a year rebate? |
| 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. |
No
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| Please explain. |
See above
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| 3. How would you prefer IAWAI engage you? |
Limited + cheapest way possible, what ever method doesn't require comms teams, ICT platforms and any resource like that. Noting Berkshire Hathaway's approach with a free website (annual reports written in text/HTML) , 0 staff (25 corporate staff total) within one of the worlds biggest companies.
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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? |
Did not read
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| 6. Do you support IAWAI'S Waiver Policy? |
Partially support
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| 7. Do you have any feedback on the the Waiver Policy? |
Did not read
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| Are you giving feedback on behalf of an organisation? |
No, these are my own personal views
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