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The Dunedin City Council is to consider consulting residents on whether it should help fund the Otago Therapeutic Pool in Dunedin.

A draft 30-year infrastructure strategy for Dunedin city has been approved by city councillors for public consultation.

Former Queenstown Lakes District Council operations general manager Ruth Stokes has been appointed to the position of infrastructure and networks general manager at Dunedin City Council, replacing departing manager Tony Avery.

A new gift and hospitality policy at the Dunedin City Council has had a mixed reaction among staff.

The Dunedin City Council will fund the central business district cardboard collection service following the contractor's decision to stop providing the service.

Two of Otago's coastal recreation spots are among 14% nationally where water quality is considered to be at high risk for swimming.

Dunedin City Councillor Lee Vandervis has slammed the council over its handling of allegations he made three years ago against the man at the centre of a $1.59 million fraud.

Dunedin city councillors have responded to the Deloitte report on the $1.59 million Citifleet fraud with disappointment and anger, but also with confidence new systems in place will make sure it does not happen again.

The man who led the investigation into a $1.59 million fraud at the Dunedin City Council says ''a lot of work'' went into it.

The Dunedin City Council has done some ''pretty good work in a pretty short period of time'' to turn its systems around, Deloitte partner Kyle Cameron, the lead investigator of the Citifleet fraud, says.