Open now for consultation
We want to know:
- if you support an Alcohol Licensing Fees Bylaw to enable Council to set alcohol licensing fees and:
- your views on who should pay for alcohol licensing in our city
Our current alcohol licensing fees are, set by national legislation in the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Fees) Regulations and, cover around 40% of alcohol licensing costs. The remaining 60% is funded through general rates. We are exploring options to remove some or all these costs from rates.
Council is proposing an Alcohol Licensing Fees bylaw to enable us to set our own fees. If a bylaw was in place, then alcohol licensing fees could be set through the annual plan and long-term process along with all other fees and charges which are consulted on each year.
Schedule One of the proposed draft bylaw sets out indicative fees based on full cost recovery. This is to help inform community consultation. No decision has been made on the timing and level of any potential changes to the fees. These decisions will be considered as part of next year's annual plan.
While we are not looking at setting the level of fees in the proposed bylaw, we do want to know how you think alcohol licensing funding should be funded. This will help inform the next stage of the project.
We are wanting your views on this proposal.
You can do this by:
- sharing your feedback online
- emailing it to policy@tauranga.govt.nz
- sharing your feedback via a printed consultation form, available at our Library Community Hubs
Community consultation opens on Friday 31 January and will run until 5pm Friday 7 March 2025
Share your thoughts