I read with disgust that Mayor Crosby and his cabal have 'voted themselves a pay rise”. Did they ask the people. their employers, who provide the money to run this city, their permission? Do they deserve it? Can they explain why ? Dipping greedy hands in the public purse without our permission is a dictatorship not Democracy.
They spend public money recklessly on luxuries eg: Bay Wave, Baypark, plunge Tauranga into debt and still want a payrise. We don't 'pocket” money to spend on ourselves when we need to put that money toward paying off our own debts, we prune back where we can and cut our suit according to our cloth. Likewise they should.
Some will say 'it's not much money in the scheme of things” well let them pay, don't suck it from those who are already being sucked dry by higher prices and ever increasing living costs.
It's not a level playing field, with pay rises on a percentage level, work it out. Make them do the job properly and provide services that are essential, that is their job, before their cash cows dry up. It's time for changes, let's make them.
A. Taylor, Tauranga.