Reading Faulkner's Corner you can see why our council and the city is in such a bad way.
I was one of many who thinks that the rate payers were subsidising bay wave gym, and I would like to see how this is not so, to prove we are wrong he should tell us how much rent they pay for the area they use power and gas for a gym is over $1000 a month and the rates, plus the equipment, to set it up would be 100s of thousands, plus the yearly replace meant, and repairs have they paid back to the council the million that it cost to set it up, and what about the $600,000 they want to replace the old equipment. Did they not buy the first lot from the USA equipment that was at good price but was out of date when it got here and was in store for 2 years, before the gym was ready, and staff I understand they have a manager and a lot more staff than most gyms, all these things a private owner would have to pay. For some one who has been running the city for 25years and has got away with things like this before, was he not the one who has written so many times Route K would be off our hands years ago, he should prove his point about the gym.
E.K.Mills, Tauranga.