Auckland Council website crashes as ratepayers check revaluations

Auckland Council's website fails to cope with a rush of ratepayers checking their new property valuations online

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Auckland Council's website fails to cope with a rush of ratepayers checking their new property valuations online

10th Nov 14, 10:35am by Greg Ninness

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Auckland Council's website crashed this morning after it posted the revised rating valuations for properties within the city's boundaries online.

At 9.43am the council issued a notice saying the website was experiencing technical difficulties due to the high volume of traffic checking for property revaluations.

All of the new rating valuations for individual properties were available online this morning and the council will follow up by mailing out written revaluation notices later in the week.

The council said it hoped to have the problem resolved shortly and advised people looking for their revaluations to check the website again later in the day.

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9 Comments

by Chairman Moa | 10th Nov 14, 12:06pm 1415574419

Their GIS contains same info and still accessible

by pythagoras | 10th Nov 14, 3:05pm 1415585108

Now the Auckland Council website

http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/ratesbuildingproperty/ratesvaluations/ratespropertysearch/Pages/RatesSearch.aspx

is referring enquiries to its GIS website, which is also seems to be grinding to a halt. A faster way is to click on the "Object Online" link at the bottom of the page, which goes to a QV website that contains 2014 valuations. Less information, but gives a quick answer in case there are any Auckland owners who haven't counted up all their $$$, yet.

by Boatman | 10th Nov 14, 12:59pm 1415577559

This has got to be the final straw , and its time for some introspection about the Auckland Council and its shambolic running of our city .

These good folk have truly lost touch with reality .

Their utter incompetence is staggering , for an organisation that pays its staff so much , has the biggest fleet of vehicles in the city, and squanders property owners money at a rate that drunken sailors could not, we are left flummexed , angry, confused and not really knowing how to deal with it .

If it cannot even run a suatainable wesbsite , how do we expect it to run a sustainable administration ?

Well we know it can't run a suatainable city , its debt levels have doubled in 36 months!

A city administration that cannot even provide the basics (like collect our inorganic waste ) , but has funds for all sorts of nice to have festivals, gatherings and fucntions for minority groups and narow interest groups .

A city who charges more for a replacement ( lost) dog licence that the National Transport Agency charges for a lost or damaged vehicle licence .

Now they want to spend Billions on a train that less than 2% of the popluation will ever use but that 98 % will have to pay for .

Its time for a major shakeup .

And its time for Len Brown to front up

by Chairman Moa | 10th Nov 14, 1:46pm 1415580367

For years I couldn't look up our property information on Council website, it gave a sql error. In many ways, I am glad that I don't have a property in Auckland anymore, the rates alone will cripple me..

by Kumbel | 10th Nov 14, 1:34pm 1415579688

To be fair, a quick look at any council's website shows they don't expect anyone to ever access them. It must have been a hell of a shock to AC when the world turned up like that.

by notch | 11th Nov 14, 5:11am 1415635882

Auckland has to be one of the crapest city's I have lived in, and that's mostly due to the Council's decisions.

Can understand all the aucklanders wanting to see how much they are now worth, that's about all the city has going for it.

When the bubble pops just wait for the mass exodus.

by Alter Ego | 11th Nov 14, 8:16am 1415646969

The checks and balances need to be spent on the parole system as well as the housing market to contain them, often called prisons, cushy numbers that have better facilities than some that have to see to their own roof, over their own heads, a life sentence in the true meaning of the word.

A mortgage, compounded by the tax and ratepayer systems.

No wonder they are scared to see if they are rich or poor, it is all make believe.

However, Any fool can fool can evade capture, when allowed out for the day, which is my point in this drivel.

I think a few others might pop over to Chile for a quick holiday at the taxpayers expense.

The bigger fool was the idiots who think that rehabilitation and the passport system is safe.

The biggest idiot of us all is the do gooders who did not throw away the prison key.

Safe as houses. The thieving and murdering nutters and public servants have negated that theory.

I am sure this will be deleted, but really, what a fiasco.

Jeez.

by raegun | 11th Nov 14, 8:48am 1415648887

John Key in between joking about the Chilean PM not inviting this guy to dinner (crass) did make a very good point. Who would have, for even a milisecond, have thought that a guy who was being readied for release shortly would take an action anything like this. This guy is a one-off, has had extensive help on the outside, and had a lucky break in that his other name was not red-flagged in Internal Affairs. That he should never have been released - probably, but under the law, was there any way, given certain conditions were met, that he could be held?

This has been well planned, down to, I reckon, the timing. I would hazard a guess and say that he has had help from the underground pedophile community and by now I would even suggest he has another identity. He may have done us a favour, assuming of course that he is caught, as he has pointed out a few loopholes.

Once caught, he will not see the light of day outside of prison again

by Stephen Hulme | 11th Nov 14, 9:29am 1415651343

I am most comfortable with such public displays of state incompetence - I feel safer in as much as those meant to be spying upon our every action with the latest and greatest technology is a complete and deservedly so farce. I just wish those running the State Services Commission and the Renumeration Authority would scale down the salaries to match the obvious competence levels.