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#2732550 22-Jun-2021 10:01

Handsomedan:

Our house is adjacent to council-owned reserve land which has regenerating bush on it. We reported some very large noxious plants to the council. They said they'll get their contractors to come out and cut them down (they were large trees of the noxious kind).

Long story short: contractor arrived, said "Sorry mate, we only do the other side of the street - you'll need to contact council and get the other contractors out". 3 months (and many emails/phone calls) later a new contractor finally turned up and the offending trees were removed. 3 MONTHS!

Both sets of contractors also agreed it was ridiculous.

We have a similar situation - we back on to a small patch of council bush that pretty much no-one else has access to. I called them a few years ago saying there were a bunch of big Taiwanese cherry trees growing there, and could they please remove them.
They apologized saying that they didn't have the budget.

I then asked if I could cut them down, and they were very happy for me to do so. I got a decent bit of exercise, and 2 year's worth of good firewood out of that project.

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#2732557 22-Jun-2021 10:12

That Council rates and fees keep going up and up, yet service and services get less and less!

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#2732564 22-Jun-2021 10:29

Private enterprise when having monopoly status is just as bad.

Enable installers cut our fibre the other day while installing a new connection nearby, it took me considerable effort to get them to fix the problem they caused, "they" being the new installer team no doubt paid piece rates per install. They wanted me to lodge a fault report with my ISP, then wait "a coupla days mate" for the bureaucratic process to unwind and eventually send the Enable "fault fixing team" to do a 5 minute job.

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#2732686 22-Jun-2021 14:08

I would have put an ax through neighbours fibre so they wouldnt get paid for install either...

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#2732765 22-Jun-2021 17:04

Handsomedan:
Our house is adjacent to council-owned reserve land which has regenerating bush on it. We reported some very large noxious plants to the council. They said they'll get their contractors to come out and cut them down (they were large trees of the noxious kind).

Same situation here, we're above what's nominally a reserve which, when we got here, had a human-high mound of brambles several metres across, numerous gorse trees, and a massive privet that was impossible to eradicate until we got a digger to dig out the root ball. Now it doesn't, same area has a lot of native trees, and not the self-sown rubbish that's growing elsewhere down there but ones you can actually appreciate.

Sure, we should probably have asked permission, but given that it's inaccessible no-man's land and we could have spent months going round in circles it was easier to just do it, and are they really going to prosecute someone for clearing gorse, privet, and brambles and replanting in natives?

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#2732774 22-Jun-2021 17:22

msukiwi:

That Council rates and fees keep going up and up, yet service and services get less and less!

Good grief, yes. I'm in Whakatane, which apparently has the third highest rates in the country. The council has announced that they're increasing by 22% over the next three years (of course, this was advertised as a smaller rise each year).

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#2732785 22-Jun-2021 18:15

Extracted from the Christchurch City Council Annual Reports: (Only up to 2019 Available)

Last 10 years available shown.

Year / Rates Revenue:

2009 / $243 Million

2010 / $257 Million

2011 / $273 Million

2012 / $297 Million

2013 / $277 Million (People left after quakes?)

2014 / $330 Million

2015 / $361 Million

2016 / $396 Million

2017 / $426 Million

2018 / $426 Million (Don't remember a 0% Rates Rise!)

2019 / $461 Million

So the rates take has almost doubled in 10 years! (And it feels like it!)

(The population etc certainly hasn't!)

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#2732786 22-Jun-2021 18:16

msukiwi:

Extracted from the Christchurch City Council Annual Reports: (Only up to 2019 Available)

Last 10 years available shown.

Year / Rates Revenue:

2009 / $243 Million

2010 / $257 Million

2011 / $273 Million

2012 / $297 Million

2013 / $277 Million (People left after quakes?)

2014 / $330 Million

2015 / $361 Million

2016 / $396 Million

2017 / $426 Million

2018 / $426 Million (Don't remember a 0% Rates Rise!)

2019 / $461 Million

So the rates take has almost doubled in 10 years! (And it feels like it!)

(The population etc certainly hasn't!)

It's not like there was any additional CAPEX required after 2011 and 2012.

Oh wait....

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#2732787 22-Jun-2021 18:20

I feel any ongoing discussion regarding local body rates should be in the politics rabbit hole.

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#2732788 22-Jun-2021 18:23

Handle9:It's not like there was any additional CAPEX required after 2011 and 2012.Oh wait....

And the CCC were (Like many other Councils) woefully under insured for most of their assets, so an increased burden was placed on the ratepayer!

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#2732802 22-Jun-2021 19:20

Surveys on websites asking you how your visit went today when you've only just opened their first page

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#2732803 22-Jun-2021 19:21

Ahh, but do you want to sign up for their newsletter? Also before you've had a chance to look at anything.

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#2732816 22-Jun-2021 20:32

And then you get another subscription when you click to leave the site.

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#2732890 23-Jun-2021 08:27

Windows 10 again! Got this when trying to open Notepad (as in the thing that comes with Windows)... not sure whether to laugh or cry:

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#2732924 23-Jun-2021 09:46

Laptops without full keyboards

I need an insert key to use with shift-insert which is a special kind of paste. If the laptop has that it won’t have a dedicated end or page up/down keys, rather those will be shared with the numeric keypad

This DynaBook (aka Toshiba) laptop has a pause/break key which is useful for the system control panel shortcut (now about your system) but has too many functions shared with the numeric keypad. Great laptop otherwise. The power button is immediately above the num lock key. That’s gonna be great for when you need to toggle the num lock to use the aforementioned key functions.

Unfortunately beggars can’t be choosers with the lack choice with stock levels.

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