I note a vote was carried at Tauranga City Council to build the new offi ce building. TCC needs that like we need a tsunami.
There is no doubt we need a complete clean out at the coming election to get rid of this group of monument builders and spreaders of largesse.
Councillors need to understand and accept they are voted in to run a city professionally in a fiscally adept manner that has mainly the ratepayers interests at heart. There seems to be no understanding among people who stand for council in NZ that all monies and all properties that council manage belong to the ratepayers - not any one group of elected offi cials.
If the TCC gets into fi nancial strife one wonders do the ratepayers of Tauranga know and understand that if the TCC reneges on any debt then the ratepayers have to pay off that debt?
With spending in the future to match this group of ‘I don't know what to call them' reaches an possible ceiling to meet their grandiose ideas along with necessary spending we could be looking at $1 billion or more.
Do any ratepayers remember the seven per cent one-off rate for the stormwater system? I hope you do because that one-off seven per cent was not removed the following year or since.
Vote carefully Tauranga.

A Bourne, Bethlehem.