I have read this newsletter and am astounded, truly astounded.  Almost speechless, almost .... but not quite.  In any business when overheads outstrip business expenditure that is the guts of the place something isn't right.  Not right at all.  How is watching the watchers?  Who is ensuring that our money is spent wisely?  We have created an empire on the golden mile of Wellington business district.  An empire that could work in the outer, cheaper regions of Wellington - like it did for many years.  The need to be closer to "stakeholders" in this age of electronic devices is not sufficient an excuse to be spending this sort of money.  Let's see if we get any fee decreases next year - or better still maybe its seriously time to look at PGDB becoming part of MoBIE and we have an administrative licensing agency for plumbers, gasfitters, drainlayers , builders and sparkies.  Economies of scale would surely count for some savings and then disciplinary committees to deal with specifics for each industry.  What do others thing?

There will be people left......the people causing the problems and doing their opposition out of a job.....they are masters at it (lol)

When these dicks get a monopoly watch the prices soar........

Yep Integrated

What about the $3M in reserves. This is the same Board the Government said would go bankrupt if they gave anything back to the industry. The only way they survive is the government allows them to tax us.  If they had to make financial decisions to actually make money and operate the Boards as a business they would fail. They don't have a customer base that wants to use them to start with.