Pay to the proposed PEE proposed in Ashburton

The salary to use loos was floated as a solution to combat the growing vandalism of public toilets in Mid Canterbury.

Taxpayers arrested a vandalism account of the bathroom of more than $ 30,000 in the previous two years, while Loo paper thieves are aimed at several facilities.

Ashburton’s district counselor Rob Mackle raised the possibility of a user to pay bathrooms at last week’s Briefing Briefing meeting.

“Abroad, they do it, and it’s effective.”

The vandalism of the bathroom facilities has been “constant” during his time as a counselor, he said.

He suggested that the introduction of the user be tested in the bathrooms that had the most repeated damage.

There were a number of toiletry robberies in various blocks of public toilet in Rakaia, Ashburton and Hinds, heard the meeting.

The board manager of the board, Ian Soper, said 16 of the great rollers were taken and some damaged dispensers.

He also noted that the former bathroom block Rakaia Domain remains vandal.

Soper said there are some public users of user payments throughout New Zealand and knew of a new users’ payment installation that came close to Te Anau, replacing an non -loading installation that “ended a mess in nearby shrubs.”

Any test would require analyzing the cost of adapting a payment locking system for existing facilities, said Soper.

Counselor Mackle felt that the cost of vandalism would be much more than the cost of “sorting some locks on the door.”

Counselor Lynette Lovet said any user payment system would have to serve cards, not coins.

“No one has coins. All the passing tourists have no coins, kids playing in parks have no coins, so it won’t work.”

Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown said a trial was not necessary in Ashburton because they can watch how this unfolds on a nearby advice.

He was referring to the Mackenzie district, which is considering the introduction of paid bathrooms from user in high volume tourism.

The introduction of the user pays the system would compensate for taxpayers financing for the cleaning and maintenance of bathrooms.

The advice has 42 blocks of public toilet throughout the district.

The general manager of the infrastructure and open spaces, Neil McCann, said there is an annual budget of $ 7000 for public bathroom vandalism.

The figures provided by the board show that vandalism in bathroom blocks cost $ 22,924 in 2022/23, $ 10,778 in 2023/24 and $ 2,153 so far in the financial year of 2024/25.

“These costs are for higher issues, as the team also spends time on their daily tasks cleaning graffiti or broken properties, and this is absorbed in general cleaning costs.

“The general activity of public conveniences has an annual operating budget of US $ 600,630, including the GST for this current financial year – which includes cleaning and maintenance.”

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