Fail File: Jim Boult, businessman, ex-mayor

Fail File: Jim Boult, businessman, ex-mayor
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Victoria Carter
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure and disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Jim Boult, CNZM, businessman and former mayor of Queenstown.I was really disappointed: when I was mayor; we were struggling with much-needed infrastructure spend. We had 23,000 ratepayers and a permanent population of 40,000, and on a busy night, we might have 120,000 people in the district. So we had a very small number of ratepayers needing to meet the infrastructure costs for a massive number of visitors...

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