{"content":[{"text":"Do you wish to speak in \n support of your \n No \n submission at the \n hearing?: \n I am able to attend: \n I intend to attend: \n Would you like to be \n added to our database to \n Yes \n be notified of future \n consultations?: \n Your Details \n Full Name: Linda Paterson \n Do you agree with our preferred option or do you support another option? \n Drinking water meters: Don't install meters \n Let us know why: I feel strongly that we should be aiming to use water more sustainably \n but lack confidence that the Council’s purpose is to discover leaks \n rather than create the basis for further inequitable council charges. \n Elderly Persons Housing: Self sustaining in 7 years \n Let us know why: \n What do you think about I object to the proposed exorbitant rate rise for Methven. How can \n our plans for our other such an unequal increase even be considered across the communities \n projects and activities?: that make up the Ashburton district? I have lost trust in council \n leaders who appear to have made their priorities expensive, rate- \n payer funded Ashburton-based projects, such as the Art Gallery, EA \n Networks Centre, new Civic Centre and Library, and $2 million worth \n of Ashburton Domain upgrades. I realise that drinking and waste \n water both need upgrading and the costs should therefore be shared \n equally among those communities utilising the resources, however, \n clearly resources aren’t distributed equally across the district so the \n smaller ‘David’ communities are being taken advantage of to fund the \n bigger ‘Goliath’. To make matters worse, how much was spent on the \n communications linked to this 2021-31 Longterm Plan? The \n information is confusing and and misleading. Have you tried reading \n through the Methven Information document and the Consultation \n Document and tried the Rates Calculator on the ADC website? They \n give different figures or base information on different property values. \n I am not the only one who has struggled to get to the truth behind the \n smoke and mirrors.","bbox":{"left":0.124814,"top":0.088152,"width":0.7462160000000001,"height":0.663373}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}