The Mount Hot Pools and Aquatic issues have finally come home to roost! How can TCAL survive with a CEO said to be getting around $170,000 p.a., with pool consultancy fees on top of this and at the same time incurring a total reputed annual wage bill of over $3,200,000 for 5 pools? This seems ridiculous and still Tauranga is faced with the current pool fiascos despite these grossly excessive payments.
Tauranga residents and ratepayers need to know as at 1st June 2011 the following answers from TCAL or its master, TCC: -
(a) What are the wages paid for each pool? (b) What are the operating costs for each pool? (c) The total of all wages and consultancy fees spread over all 5 pools along with full operating costs? (d) What is the TCAL deficit each year and what do TCC (ratepayers) contribute in cash to bolster up the failing Aquatics outfit ?
Bureaucrats running the bureaucracy seems to be the problem, with no accountability or transparency. What then is the real cost without the massaging of financial figures by TCC. Gobsmacking and horrific are two words that spring to mind.
S Paterson, Arataki.
Posted: 02:48pm Fri 17 Jun, 2011
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THEY THINK THEY MAKE MONEY?
Posted on 17-06-2011 20:40 | By Vomit
But how can this be? TCC pays $9m into TCAL a year to keep it afloat, pay the bills ... shocking state of affairs ... but no ones knows ...
YEAH RIGHT, THE LIFT DOES NOT GO THERE ...
Posted on 18-06-2011 12:13 | By MISS ADVENTURE
(A) The wages are something like: - Hotpools 27 staff x $70,000 average, a few sundry admins $1.16m, Baywave 37 staff say $1.44m, Greerton 14 $470,000, Memorial Park 12 for 1/2 a year $223,000 and Otumoetai god knows ... say 6 staff $200,000. TOTALS = 90 staff at a cost of $3.493m pa then of course there are all the POINTY HEADS spread throughout the TCC EMPIRE assorted grand titles or unknown purpose or use ? lets say another $2.0m and some.
TCC GOBBLERS
Posted on 18-06-2011 13:18 | By ROCKY
My understanding was the total wage bill was $3.4m with 90 staff employed on apparently bullet proof employment contracts.TCC could plug as much as $5m into the TCAL outfit to keep it financially afloat(a pun).Mindblowing isn't it. The more you dig the more crap that floats to the surface.
OPERATING COSTS
Posted on 18-06-2011 13:42 | By WORMTONGUE
I think I can do that as found some reports on a table at work, they look like this. Hot Pools $2,160,000, Baywave $2,639,000, Otumoetai $516,000, Memorial $328,000, Greerton $984,000. The total shown was $6,627,000, but that did not include interest (approx. $1,900,000 but not split, most is for Baywave though) or the repairs ($500,000 + $1,500,000 + 2,500,000) that we now know about. All of that adds to total costs of about $13,027,000 for the current year. There is no chance of pulling that in the door ever.
ALL OPERATING COSTS
Posted on 18-06-2011 13:44 | By WORMTONGUE
I think I covered C. in the previous blog.
CONSULTANTS
Posted on 18-06-2011 13:48 | By WORMTONGUE
The Director/Consultant: King get $40,000 a year and all expenses paid to wander over here at will (a bit like the Reg COuncil holiday party in CHCH all at our expense but a lot more) then in the Audit accounts to 30/6/10 there are $1.3m odd worth listed, and we know TCC have thrown another $1.0m odd at even more consultants since. That is what they have told us, but then again there is the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" we will have to what a while for that I am sure.
WHOLEEE GEEPPERS CREEPERS
Posted on 18-06-2011 19:28 | By Vomit
Look at dat ... look at dat ... amazing and some, bet that is only 1/2 the story to.
LOOK AT DAT ... LOOK AT DAT ... WHAT A MESS
Posted on 21-06-2011 19:15 | By YOGI
The numbers here are amazing, they are so big and what for, how can anyone hold down a job, keep a straight face and sleep at night all on the same day. I would happy with a nice picnic basket every now and then.
Miss Adventure
Posted on 23-06-2011 09:40 | By silent no more
'Hotpools 27 staff x $70,000 average' ... I can honestly state that when I worked at the Hot Pools there was no way any of us - Life Guards etc were on this sort of money.... as you would be working approx 112 hours per week on $12.00 an hour to achieve anything ressembling this figure!!!
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