Should city councils have a catering budget for mayors and councillors?

A city councillor has been thwarted in a bid to make his colleagues buy their own lunches so the city could spend $25,000 on a community environmental centre.

North Shore City councillor Grant Gillon suggested the 15 councillors and the Mayor put $20 a week each into a fund to provide their meals at work.

Opposing councillors said the project did not qualify for a community grant, and cutting lunches to save rates money was a matter for a separate debate.

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