Waitaki

Facebook post by the Mayor 12 June 2024:

Fluoridation – How strongly do you feel against it?
Despite Councillors seeking to have an extension to Waitaki’s deadline for fluoridation to delay its introduction, there are many people who are making all sorts of claims about Council, me, and others in their attempts to get Council to refuse to comply with the government’s directives. If we don’t comply, we are liable for significant fines, and potentially have our elected representatives removed and replaced with Commissioners. Some of you will be less worried about Commissioners though you should understand they will comply as one of their first actions.

So I ask you this – how strong is your resolve to have Council ignore the directive? If the maximum fines are levied against Council, it will be $200,000, then $10,000 per day of non-compliance. It’s not fair to have all ratepayers contribute to this as many are not concerned at all about fluoridation. So for those who are, are you willing to pay your share? If we have 20 people say they are, that will be $10,000 up front, then $500 per day. If 2,000 people put their hands up, then that is $100 up front, then $5 per day. 

This little exercise is to demonstrate the weighing up of multiple factors when making these sorts of decisions. Many decisions are relatively easy to make but taking on a $3,650,000 annual cost to ratepayers for not complying is not one of them. So what will it be? 

P.S. For clarity: I am not a mason or a member of a lodge, I have not signed any UN Agenda treaties, I haven’t had my deputy sign any UN Agenda treaties, I have no cocnern about discussing this with anyone so feel free to front up to any of my regular ‘Coffee and a Chat” sessions, we are not above the law, my family and I will be drinking the fluoridated water, I do have a very good comprehension of what happened during the Holocaust, and I don’t eat babies.