Arataki Community Centre: Now that this ‘architectural blot on the landscape' which will cost ratepayers around $3 million plus is nearing completion, it looks like all the grounds including carparks are being laid out and done at TCC ratepayers cost.
What is the cost of this work? Council it seems, have recently passed some sort of resolution, authorising financial assistance for unspecified knick knacks, depreciation, sound systems, music and God only knows what else!
No one seems to know anything about what this assistance package is worth and actually totals and TCC ratepayers need to know what the ceiling limit is for this stuff. It is fair to ask, what are the Arataki residents/members actually contributing other than probably seeking naming rights for this edifice?
No wonder this cash-strapped Tauranga City Council is in debt for $400million with this sort of easy-beat financial philosophy!
R. Paterson, Mount Maunganui.
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GRAFFITI HEAVEN
Posted on 07-09-2011 20:58 | By PLONKER
Looks like plenty of new walls to be generous repainted as and when the desire takes fancy, so I wonder if all the stuff being thrown in there is being paid by the contractor that is to run the place or was that tender just a smoke screen?
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Posted on 09-09-2011 09:09 | By Secret Squirrel
Paid for fully by the Ratepayers of Tauranga, thre actually is no "community" about it. The contractor's price of $3.5m does not everything, and there is a really generous tender out a while ago that sweetens it even more for the contractor to, but as "ALWAYS" the ratepayer is landed with the piles of bills from all over the place ....
$400 MILLION DEBT
Posted on 14-09-2011 00:26 | By TERMITE
there is more coming to, like later this month look out for the annual report of TCC and the CCO's to see what really has happened. Of course there is a huge commitment to more debt. The biggest of all to add on is the $4-500 million Southern pipeline and related works required.
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