Stuart Crosby: LGNZ President says Auckland Council got its money's worth from belonging to the national lobby group

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Local Government New Zealand says Auckland Council got its money's worth from belonging to the national lobby group for councils.

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has cast the deciding vote to remove the council from the organisation.

He says the council doesn't get much from belonging to the organisation, which he says costs the council $640,000 dollars a year.

But Local Government New Zealand President Stuart Crosby told Mike Hosking the membership fee is much lower, and the benefits are much greater than Brown claims.

He says the council pays about $350,00 dollars in membership fee and $50,000 dollars in additional fees, for what Auckland Council has estimated to be a million dollars in benefits.

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