Funding upsets association
By KAY FORRESTER The Local Government Association is upset about the use of revenue-shar-ing funds to set up a National Transition Committee and Management for Change Unit for local government reform. The association welcomed the setting-up of the bodies, but objected to most of their budgets coming from revenuesharing funds, said the president, Mr Ross Jansen, of Hamilton. The Government has allocated $2 million for the bodies, $1.5 million of that coming from the incentive grants part of the revenue-sharing scheme
that will be axed at the end of the financial year. Mr Jansen said authorities would get about half the income in revenuesharing this year. “Central and local government should have entered into the change together ... all of the $2 million, and not simply $500,0000, should have been found from other funding,” he said. Mr Jansen said some association members would feel able to handle the changes of reform without much assistance but many members, not previously touched by major reform, would find the change difficult.
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Press, 23 September 1988, Page 7
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