Federated Farmers Submission to Queenstown Lakes District Council on Proposed Amendments to Funding and Financial Policies
Federated Farmers supports the principles informing Council’s overall approach to funding activities, in that overall Council attempts to align the amount paid by specific ratepayers and users of Council services with the relative benefit derived from each activity.
This is particularly important in Queenstown Lakes District, given the large demand for Council services from non-resident ratepayers, and the impacts that a purely property value based approach would have on the economic viability of farming in the District.
For more, please see the full submission