Annual Plan 2026/27

This is Year 3 of the Long-term Plan 2024-34 

We’ll be progressing the work we agreed with the community and continuing to build a resilient future for Kāpiti. In the Long-term Plan (LTP), we committed to living within a projected rates increase of seven percent after growth for the 2026/27 year.  

Like many councils, we’re balancing rising costs, and investing in essential services and infrastructure, while keeping rates affordability at the top of mind.  

We have made every effort to ensure we achieve this, and to do our bit to help our community in these hard times. 

We’ve taken deliberate action to remove $1.9 million from staff and project delivery costs, adjusted our fees and charges, and pause our planned rates debt reduction: 

• Reducing staff costs due to both organisational and project delivery changes ($660,000)   
• Reducing funding for the Social Investment Fund ($150,000) 
• Increasing fees for private plan changes ($200,000) 
• Reducing economic development budget ($325,000) 
• Reducing cultural capacity funding ($150,000) 
• Stopping our planned rates-funded debt reduction for one year ($400,000).   

We’ve also increased fees and charges to reflect the impact of inflation, generating an additional $300,000.