Cycle way funding for 2015-16
Cycle way funding for 2015-16
Money to expand Dunedin's cycleways has been added to the budget from 2015-16.
DCC Budget
Loos lose out on funding for now
Loos lose out on funding for now
Dunedin city council staff will investigate the options for placing a 24-hour toilet in the Octagon, including where it should go and how much it would cost.
Road subsidy cuts hit works budget
Road subsidy cuts hit works budget
Dunedin city councillors have decided not to add any money to the budget for roading and footpath maintenance and repairs, despite warnings from council staff that a reduction in government subsidies will leave the council unable to do all the work it had planned over the next three years.
Groups warned about possible govt cuts
Groups warned about possible govt cuts
A Dunedin social services advocate has warned community organisations to brace for possible changes or cuts to their government funding.
$4.1m shortfall in DCC budget
$4.1m shortfall in DCC budget
Fresh savings would be needed to plug a $4.1 million hole in the Dunedin City Council's budget, it was confirmed yesterday.
Thomson pleads for cycleway funding
Thomson pleads for cycleway funding
The Dunedin City Council needs to do more to protect cyclists from injury and death, Cr Richard Thomson says.
Seal extensionloses to cycling
Seal extensionloses to cycling
After partly reinstating its seal extension programme in the city's pre-draft budget in January, Duned
Artificial turf main casualty of cuts
Artificial turf main casualty of cuts
A plan for new artificial turf at Logan Park was the major casualty after Dunedin city councillors sharpened their pencils at yesterday's budget meetings.
What residents want
What residents want
A plan to build an artificial turf at Logan Park and develop a new Maori consultation model have not found favour with people answering a questionnaire on the Dunedin City Council's draft long-term budget.
Self-imposed rates rise cap under threat
Self-imposed rates rise cap under threat
The Dunedin City Council has a fight on its hands to keep a lid on rates increases, with demands for new spending over the next few days likely to place pressure on a self-imposed rates cap.
Council centralises PR team at head office
Council centralises PR team at head office
The Dunedin City Council has created a new central communications unit with a potential multimillion-dollar budget, and appointed a new manager to head the team, in a drive to sharpen its public image.
DCC could borrow from self
DCC could borrow from self
The Dunedin City Council will consider borrowing from its own almost $70 million Waipori fund, instead of using commercial lending institutions.
Fiscal reality drove stadium loan term
Fiscal reality drove stadium loan term
The reality of the council's financial situation, rather than a decision by either the council or council staff, was behind the repayment period for stadium debt extending from 20 to 40 years, council finance and corporate support general manager Athol Stephens says.
Surprise over stadium debt repayment
Surprise over stadium debt repayment
The revelation last week the Dunedin City Council's stadium debt is being paid off over a 40-year, rather than a 20-year, period has surprised some councillors.
Communities will have to help pay: Cull
Communities will have to help pay: Cull
Communities across Dunedin will need to do more to help pay for projects, as the Dunedin City Council grapples with tight finances threatening to curtail spending on key ventures, Mayor Dave Cull says.
Roads, sports fields eyed as council seeks savings
Roads, sports fields eyed as council seeks savings
Multimillion-dollar spending cuts to stem runaway rates increases could result in the end of new road sealing, and the end of plans to upgrade the city's sports fields for at least the next decade.
Board members challenge cuts
Board members challenge cuts
The Dunedin City Council is under pressure to continue work on the Otago Peninsula walkway, cycleway and road-widening project, and fund its share of the planned new Blueskin Bay library.
Scheme to help insulate, heat homes favoured
Scheme to help insulate, heat homes favoured
A project to help homeowners insulate and install "clean" heating systems was included in Dunedin's annual plan yesterday, and described as "a great initiative" by Mayor Dave Cull, after an almost unanimous vote.
Cull defends decision to hold spending workshop in private
Cull defends decision to hold spending workshop in private
Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has defended the decision to hold a workshop on Dunedin City Council spending plans behind closed doors, saying he wanted to avoid "grandstanding".
Council staff push for central city improvements
Council staff push for central city improvements
Details of a $13 million plan to upgrade the middle of Dunedin, with improvements to the Octagon, George St and other parts of the central city, will run the gauntlet of city councillors in cost-cutting mode next week.