We don't need a museum in Tauranga, nor do we need a monstrous memorial to someone's bad taste as per a new council office building.

For goodness sake the last time I was in Auckland's museum you could count the number of people in there on one hand.

What Tauranga needs is a complete clean out of the Tauranga City Council at the October election.

We need a party to be formed that will strive to run Tauranga on a fair and profitable basis. The council needs to be progressive in other ways than building monuments. We need to strive to run our council efficiently with a debt reduction plan that will work rather than amass more debt. Is the goal of the current bunch a debt of $1 billion? Auckland ratepayers are paying $1 million a day in interest only, let's not get into a similar rut. Councillors totally forget they work for the ratepayers. Ratepayers don't go to work to slog their guts out to raise money to pay councillors. We pay councillors to be effective and efficient in running our city, not to just waffle on at the odd meeting and collect a handsome stipend. The CBD is dying there are too many empty shops.

Is there anyone out there who can get something rolling to form a group to clean the council chambers out completely and make Tauranga great again? If there is, I'm in.

A Bourne, Bethlehem.