Financial Contributions 2023/24 - further consultation
Consultation has ended. Thanks for your feedback!
We've used financial contributions since approximately 2000. There are 17 financial models that have been used to calculate financial contributions across the District.
The Resource Management Act 1991 allows councils to provide in their District Plans for the ability to impose a condition on a resource consent requiring a financial (cash) contribution for the purpose of contributing to infrastructure required to service a particular development and managing the effects of development on the environment.
A financial contribution assists with the costs of providing infrastructure for growth. Council’s District Plan allows financial contributions to be charged for water, wastewater, stormwater, ecological protection, transportation and recreation and leisure.
Western Bay’s financial contributions models are over 20 years old and over time the financial contribution calculation models have become complicated. Moving forward we will move to a simpler standardised model and produce disclosure tables for internal information.
A review has identified a number of complications in the financial contribution models that have been used by Council over many years, including how inflation, and rates subsidies, have been calculated in the models which sit behind the financial contribution calculations.
This has meant the financial contributions 2023/24 that were consulted on as part of the Annual Plan process, March – April 2023, have been updated.
There are no significant implications for the current Financial Strategy 2021-31 arising from the proposed changes for further consultation. Council is in the process of developing its Long Term Plan 2024-34, a critical component of this being review of its financial strategy. Wider implications relating to future financial contributions will be considered through this process.
Key changes proposed to the updated draft financial contributions are
How to share your thoughts on the updated Financial Contributions
We want to make it easy for you to share your thoughts with a number of options:
- Complete our online feedback form below.
- Post your feedback to Financial Contributions 2023/24, Western Bay of Plenty District Council, Private Bag 12803, Tauranga Mail Centre, Tauranga 3143.
- Alternatively drop your feedback off at any of our Library and Service Centres in Waihī Beach, Katikati, Ōmokoroa, Te Puke or to the main Council Office at Barkes Corner.
- Email your feedback to haveyoursay@westernbay.govt.nz
- To register to speak to us please email haveyoursay@westernbay.govt.nz by 9 July.
Feedback closes 5pm Sunday 9 July 2023.
