IMSB Website Account Suspended
7 JANUARY 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is asking why, despite ratepayer funding of more than $3.4 million per year, the Independent Māori Statutory Board appears not to have enough money to keep its website online.
Currently visitors to the IMSB website at imsb.maori.nz are redirected to an “under maintenance” page with a URL which indicates that the IMSB’s CGI website account has been suspended.
“What a welcome to 2017 and symbol of Auckland Council’s incompetence,” says Ratepayers’ Alliance spokesperson Jo Holmes. “We would like to contact the Maori Statutory Board to ask why their website account has gone into suspension – but all their enquiries information has now been taken offline.”
“With the Council’s IT projects reportedly wasting more than a billion dollars since the formation of the Super City, maybe we should be thankful that at least one part of the Council appears to be reluctant to spend our money on IT. We would suggest however that paying to keep a website online is an essential cost.”
ENDS