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Wednesday 21 February 2024
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More residents to pay storm charge MAX FRETHEY
Local Democracy Reporter
The annual $330 storm recovery charge that each ratepayer will likely be facing from next year for the next 10 years could be reduced to $300. Nelson City Council has man-
aged to get the cost down by considering a different approach for who it charges. The council is proposing to charge each Separately Used or Inhabited Part (SUIP) instead of applying the charge to each rateable unit, spreading the $59.8 million storm recovery cost over
an extra 3000 units. In practice, the key change is that places like retirement villages or apartments where there are multiple homes, but a single title, would pay the charge for each effective unit. Nelson has 25,284 SUIPs compared with 22,367 separate rate-
able units. “The reason the council has refined its approach to the storm recovery rate is because we think it is fairer to spread the cost over a wider group of ratepayers,” Mayor Nick Smith says. “There is no perfectly fair approach for how we recover the
$59.8 million storm recovery cost to council, but with further advice and feedback from the community, we think getting the rate down and spreading it more widely is the better approach,” Nick adds.
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Stoke’s Birchwood School celebrated the new school year with a Colour Run and family picnic on Friday. Pictured is Noah Summers heading to the finish line after his first time round the course. Students, siblings, parents and teachers all joined in, many running the course three or four times and ending the colourful evening with a sausage sizzle provided by Mad Butcher Stoke or a Juicie to cool off. Photo: Sara Hollyman.
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