Online Town Hall: Tough Choices for Lower Rates | 7pm on Thursday 23

Published on 21 April 2026

We’re bringing our community together for an important conversation and we’re doing it online so everyone has the chance to take part. Our Tough Choices for Lower Rates online town hall is your opportunity to hear directly from Council leadership, ask questions, and understand the options on the table as we work to keep rates as low as we responsibly can.

Join Mayor Peter Revell and Chief Executive Aileen Lawrie for an open, accessible session where we’ll walk through the four proposals designed to help reduce rates rises. Whether you’re at home, at work, or on the go, you can tune in and be part of the discussion.

How to join

You can join from your computer or phone browser - no downloads required. Just click the link below when the session begins at 7pm. 

The town hall will be recorded, and if you can’t make it on the night, the full video will be posted on this page on the following Monday.

If you click the link a little early, you’ll enter a waiting room until the meeting starts at 7pm. You may see a message saying “this event is not live yet” - that’s expected. You’ll be admitted automatically once the session begins.

Click here to join at 7:00pm on Thursday

How the session will run

We’ll begin with a 15 or 20-minute overview of the four proposals from the Mayor and Chief Executive. After that, we’ll open the floor for questions.

Questions can be submitted using the Q&A function, and all questions will be text‑based. Our team will work hard to ensure as many questions as possible are answered during the session. If we run out of time, we’ll post additional answers on our website afterwards.

To keep the session safe and constructive, abusive or harmful comments will not be published, and questions that fall well outside the scope of this meeting may also be withheld.

Find out more about this consultation here

We hope you can join us.