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In the fourth of a summer series on Wairarapa leaders' views on the government's proposed local council reforms, South Wairarapa mayor and former Wellington mayor, Dame Fran Wilde, shares her perspectives.
The government's recently proposed council shake-up has been called the most wide-ranging in a generation.
Changes include scrapping regional councils, introducing a rates cap of between 2 - 4 percent, and a simplification of planning legislation
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