“My name is Dean Harris. I am standing for Mayor with the We Love Kāpiti team. I have a business background and believe excessive regulation and wasteful spending is hurting our community. Our team will prioritise capping any rate increase to no more than 3% pa average. We will review the LTP so council spending stays within the parameters we set (not a cost-plus framework as it is now!)
“We will re-introduce spending discipline into the Council and stop spending on non-core, non-essential or wasteful activities. We will review what Council spends on grants. This has gone up by $1.2m or 150% since 2022, essentially giving our rates money away. We’ll limit spending on Economic Development- currently set at a whopping $3.1m, most of this funded by your rates.
“So vote for me and the We Love Kāpiti team for Affordability, commonsense and transparency.”
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