The Consultation Document highlights the key challenges we are facing, what the realistic options are to help solve them and any associated costs. This plan has been created over the past 18 months and includes input from our community.
No final decisions have been made, but we have prepared supporting information that underpins the consultation document. This includes all the policies relevant to the Long-term Plan, our draft financial statements, and the Financial and Infrastructure Strategies. This information is included so you can see what has guided the key decisions for public consultation and the proposed budgets.
What additional information is available?
The following documents are available for download from the document library on the right of this page or by clicking the link in the following list.
Draft Financial Strategy | This strategy provides a guide against which to consider proposals for funding and expenditure. It provides transparency about the effects of our proposals on rates, debt, investments and the levels of service we expect to provide to Wellingtonians. It also lays out the financial limits that the Council plans to work within in respect to rates increases and borrowing. |
Draft Infrastructure Strategy | This strategy sets out the 30-year plan for maintaining and improving levels of service for three waters, waste, land transport, community services and open spaces. |
Significant Forecasting Assumptions | What we are assuming might happen in the future and how we plan to respond to the issues or opportunities as they arise. |
Draft Statements of Service Provision | These are the big lists of all the other things we will do over the next ten years – community projects, business-as-usual transport maintenance, running our services such as City Archives, swimming pools and recreation centres, and our economic development projects. |
Draft Revenue and Financing Policy | Details on how we intend to fund the proposed operating and capital budgets. This policy shows which parts of the community contribute to paying for each of the Council’s services. |
Draft Financial Statements and Draft Statement of Significant Accounting Policies | The proposed financial statements the Council is required to prepare and how they are prepared (Significant Accounting Policies). |
Draft Funding Impact Statements | A statement on where we propose to get the money from (sources) to deliver services, run the Council and invest in projects and what the money will be used for. |
Draft Development Contributions Policy and maps | These are charges to pay for upgrades to existing and new community facilities, to accommodate the City’s growing population. The policy describes what the charges are and how they are administered and calculated. |
Draft Rates Remission Policy and Rates Postponement policy | Options for how and when rates are paid. |
| Draft Rating Policy | Proposals for how we should proportion the rates we charge. This what proportion each rating unit should pay, not how many dollars we will charge. |
Draft operating and capital 10-year activity reports | The proposed budget for delivering Council services to Wellington (the operating budget) and, our investment in projects and upgrades of our assets (the capital budget). |
Investment and Liability Management Policy | Details on how we will manage the Council's investments and what it owes (liabilities). |
Significance and Engagement Policy | Explains how the community should be engaged in various decisions of the Council. |
