Councillors Turn Off the Water Meters!

By the Editor

Kapiti Independent News says four Kapiti Coast District Councillors have finally succeeded in torpedoing plans to install water meters throughout the Kapiti District.

In a dramatic debate in the last Long Term Community Plan workshop, they succeeded in substituting long-term storage in place of water meters as the Council’s preferred water option.

Eight councillors and Mayor Jenny Rowan were debating priorities in the tenth workshop of the 10 year planning process (Crs Ellis and Jack were absent). An earlier decision to include water meters as council’s preferred option -- decided by the casting vote of the mayor in a straw poll and voted on when some councillors were absent -- was overturned in the latest workshop.

In the last workshop, Councillors took another straw poll vote and instead made long term water storage the preferred option of council.

Councillors Patton, McIntyre, Daniel and Scott voted for this option. Councillors Ammundsen and Wooding voted against water storage as the preferred option -- and the mayor and deputy mayor abstained.

For the full story see the Kapiti Independent website, www.kapitiindependentnews.net.nz.

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