Councillor Tricia Cutforth has misquoted figures for Hundertwasser on Facebook. She said the Deloitte report allows for 450,000 paying visitors but that's not true, it is 150,000. A big difference, don't you think?
She distorted the figures for local visitors as well. She pointed to the estimate of 29 per centof local people visiting Hundertwasser with disbelief (25,000 local ticket sales), but doesn't go on to explain that that figure is for the first year only.
For the following years, the report allows for only 5000 ticket sales to local people. You would think it would be pretty important for her to make that distinction, wouldn't you? She then quotes $12 as being the entrance fee but Deloitte uses $6 for local people, not $12.
As a councillor, shouldn't she be getting this right? Time she understood the information and then properly portrayed it to the public. No wonder some of the public are confused by the figures, when councillors say this nonsense.
And then she would have us vote for Harbourside. But Harbourside will have an annual loss of $900,000, whereas Hundertwasser a profit of $500,000 per annum. We can't afford Harbourside, it's too expensive.
How can Councillor Cutforth recommend that sort of economic disaster, especially when Harbourside will bring no benefit to us from tourism and economic growth? We expect Tricia Cutforth to have some financial intelligence.
