REVEALED: $114,000 Welcome Signs Proposed Next to Existing NZTA Signs — Community Board Must Vote No

The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is calling on the Clifton Community Board today to reject a proposal to spend $113,850 ($99,000 plus GST) of ratepayer money on two “Welcome to Urenui” signs placed next to existing NZTA signage. This will be decided by the board during a vote at 4pm today.

Taxpayers’ Union Investigations Coordinator, Rhys Hurley, says:

"Ratepayers shouldn’t be spending more than $100,000 on signage that duplicates what’s already there. These signs are already in front of two existing NZTA town signs, meaning you get welcomed not once, not twice, but three times."

“Public money should be going into core council services, not vanity signage and arts funding disguised as relationship building.”

"Yet this time there’s still the chance for Clifton's locally elected members to do the right thing and vote no."

"There’s still time for Cliftons locally elected members to do the right thing for ratepayers; vote no to $113,850 vanity arts projects and yes to common sense.”