The latest report from the stadium stakeholders group, set up to oversee the project, went before the Dunedin City Council finance and strategy committee yesterday.
It included both a projected figure for the funding - what the trust was required to raise - of $45.5 million, and a possible total, if all seating products were sold, of $56.2 million.
Funds raised so far total $31 million.
Cr Fliss Butcher asked trust chairman Malcolm Farry, if the $56.2 figure was reached, "will the difference be refunded to ratepayers?".
Mr Farry said the funding was now being dealt with by Dunedin Venues Management Ltd rather than the trust.
From the trust's point of view, though, "that was not the intention".
Council chief executive Jim Harland said if all the seating products sold, it would give DVML a stronger cash flow.
If that "very happy event" occurred, there could be discussion about whether the money could be used to pay off debt more quickly.
• The council will begin public consultation on the future of Carisbrook with "a completely open book", Mayor Peter Chin said yesterday.
The council spent $7 million buying the land, which includes eight residential properties on the western side of Burns St, a 5000sq m site on the corner of Burns and Neville Sts, and the stadium itself, an area of about 30,000sq m.
The public consultation will be held this year, with the results and recommendations to be reported to the finance and strategy committee on September 13.
Some council staff would be available to help people develop their ideas.
• Work will begin soon on a city development strategy to help manage future growth and development in Dunedin.
Issues to be considered include infrastructure affordability, public transport, flood and climate change risks and encouraging good urban design.
The strategy will be developed by council staff from various departments, with advice from a working group of councillors.
• A report on climate change in Dunedin by University of Otago emeritus professor of geography Blair Fitzharris, which included warnings low-lying areas of the city could be inundated by the end of the century, will go to council staff for consideration of its implications, and the priority areas to be dealt with.
A report on the issue will go back to the committee within six months.
