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Published on 30 June 2023
On Wednesday 28 June, we adopted the Annual Plan 2023 – 2024 at our general Council meeting, held at Upper Hutt Central Library. The new plan takes effect from 1 July 2023.
This year’s Annual Plan does not differ significantly from Year 3 of our Long Term Plan 2021 – 2031, so there was no public consultation during its development phase.
The 2023 – 2024 year will see significant progress and/or completion of a number of Long Term Plan projects, including the Maidstone Community Sports Hub, H2O Xtream upgrade, Stage 1 of the Civic Centre upgrade, and the watermain renewal on Main Street.
As a Council we’re continuing to face an economically strained environment, which is putting pressure on costs. We have resolved to maintain service levels and remain within our Long Term Plan commitment of limiting rates funding increases to 6% or less. This year we have a unique opportunity to apply more reserve funding than we have in the past. In doing so, we’ve been able to keep the rates increase down at 5.81%.
The Annual Plan is now available on our website and can be viewed at upperhuttcity.com/annual-plan