By the numbers

We’ve given you $4 million and a range of services and/or facilities to fund.

You can choose which services or facilities to fund, with $500,000 representing keeping the services at the same level as now, $200,000 a reduced level of service, and as high as you like to signal a higher (or much higher) level of service. Zero funding indicates a desire to drop a service.

Remember: roads, waste, water and cyclone-recovery, as essential services, are not included. Also excluded are services that are self-funding (don’t require money from rates), for example Resource and Building Consents, car parking management or are required to be run by councils by Government regulation, for example citizenship ceremonies.