Wow $1 million spent on feeding Local Board members over the last 5 years! An absolutely appalling waste of ratepayers’ money, and exactly why the Kaipatiki Local Board stopped all workshop lunches after I became Chair.
(The figures in this article are for the 5 years up until mid-2018, so don’t include the period since we stopped the lunches).
And when we stopped the lunches:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105226999/auckland-local-board-ends-ratepayerfunded-lunches