“How many seats do you we need for rugby? We are not going to get a test [match]. Do we maintain a structure just for if we get a Highlanders game every two or three years?”
REALLY a bargain and great decision for ICC to have bought this RUGBY ground for $1million dollars for ratepayers a decade ago. 7 votes to 6 councillors opposed. $14 million budgeted for SEATING TOO don’t forget. Can someone please remind me how many millions ratepayers have spent on rugby park and Rugby Southland in the past 3 decades. Put it in $$$ please. How can this be justified. This city is short of a SMALL TIERED THEATRE. for smaller music and performances, the ICC currently does not own one sometimes rep house is accessed , or we sit on plastic chairs in the civic stage and single levels chairs put out on the floor of the Scottish hall . Parks department stripped of funding . It is indefensible the council and ratepayers disproportionately every half decade pump multi millions into a sole use RUGBY venue. Please don’t insult me by talking up it is anything other. Is this $4.9 million on deferred maintenance AND $14 million ( the top option of course) for seating. This totals 1/3-1/2 of the MUSEUM budget!!!
Hard to see Rugby Park having a value of 14 million dollars when Kew Bowl was worth less the a million dollars. Seems like Knobbys promised 20 million dollar savings are going to be funded by selling off the cities assets rather than any actual savings to the cost of running the council.
We have yet to hear about the money returned from the sale of the ICC Forestry company and they still have the farm at Hedgehope they paid twice the market value for. What about looking at the properties that bring no value to the ratepayers before thinking about the ones that have contributed to the local economy and wellbeing of Invercargill. We seem to be teetering at the top of the cliff of Knobberomics and we all know how Rodgernomics has served NZ.
Donovan Park, Rugby Park... How many more ‘park’ areas are going to go up for sale under Nobby Clark’s reign?
REALLY a bargain and great decision for ICC to have bought this RUGBY ground for $1million dollars for ratepayers a decade ago. 7 votes to 6 councillors opposed. $14 million budgeted for SEATING TOO don’t forget. Can someone please remind me how many millions ratepayers have spent on rugby park and Rugby Southland in the past 3 decades. Put it in $$$ please. How can this be justified. This city is short of a SMALL TIERED THEATRE. for smaller music and performances, the ICC currently does not own one sometimes rep house is accessed , or we sit on plastic chairs in the civic stage and single levels chairs put out on the floor of the Scottish hall . Parks department stripped of funding . It is indefensible the council and ratepayers disproportionately every half decade pump multi millions into a sole use RUGBY venue. Please don’t insult me by talking up it is anything other. Is this $4.9 million on deferred maintenance AND $14 million ( the top option of course) for seating. This totals 1/3-1/2 of the MUSEUM budget!!!
Hard to see Rugby Park having a value of 14 million dollars when Kew Bowl was worth less the a million dollars. Seems like Knobbys promised 20 million dollar savings are going to be funded by selling off the cities assets rather than any actual savings to the cost of running the council.
We have yet to hear about the money returned from the sale of the ICC Forestry company and they still have the farm at Hedgehope they paid twice the market value for. What about looking at the properties that bring no value to the ratepayers before thinking about the ones that have contributed to the local economy and wellbeing of Invercargill. We seem to be teetering at the top of the cliff of Knobberomics and we all know how Rodgernomics has served NZ.