Consultation Consultation Background Results of Consultation The proposals put to ratepayers in the Consultation Document represented the Council received 305 submissions. This number compares to the 139, 398, and culmination of: 346 received over the past three years. Of the 305 submissions 138 have Previous Annual and Long Term Plan consultations which has led to the indicated that they wish to speak which compares to the 67, 104 and 116 over the • current direction taken by Council; previous three years. For the majority of the questions asked, ratepayers have submitted in favour of Council’s proposals (see graph below). • The work of the LTP Working Group; A number of the submitters also took the opportunity of making suggestions on • Budgeting and funding work by staff; areas outside the questions posed. On the graph, these are shown in the dark Agreement by Council to include the individual items and their proposed blue columns. • funding in the Consultation Document. The Consultation Document posed a series of questions which will be commented on in turn and lead to a series of recommendations at the end of this paper. 2018-2028 Long Term Plan Page 23