In response to Joye Adams [Mount Maunganui] claim that water meters were installed in Tauranga to restrict the use of water and therefore delay building a water treatment plant at Te Puke. Ms Adams asked when we last had water restrictions over the summer.
There have been no water restrictions since Council built a new water treatment plant in Joyce Road, which has nothing to do with water meters. Kindly deal with facts.
I repeat - water meters were installed in Tauranga 'in fairness to Mount Maunganui” while Joye Adams was a City Councillor, as she well knows.
This also does not deal with the fact that Mount Maunganui must have downtown parking meters for exactly the same reason that downtown Tauranga has parking meters.
In response to Cherie Luxton, [Papamoa] who claims that the CBD has many enticements and lists them. This is utterly bizarre. Mount Maunganui has most of the enticements listed as peculiar Tauranga 'charms” plus others of the Mount's own, such as walks around the Mount, beaches, apartments, boating, cruise ships, hotpools, camping grounds, etc, all of which should be assisting Council's financial shortfall by paying for parking, exactly the same as Tauranga has to.
We refer to paragraph 3 above.
Jan Hill, Tauranga.