Re: Brian Anderson's column. With the WBOP District Council having the fourth highest debt per capita in New Zealand there has never been a more crucial time for transparency. The fact this council has reduced its number of public meetings speaks volumes of their attitude towards the same people that put them in the positions they currently hold. I wouldn't mind betting a huge chunk of this debt comes from within the Omokoroa area. It is time this council made public its property portfolio held in Omokoroa. What was this property purchased for and what it has and is it costing ratepayers. On our last rates demand we are asked to pay a $10.00 town centre development fee, why? When there is privately owned commercial zoned property that could have a shopping centre built on at no cost to the community.
P Cooney, Omokoroa.
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Omokoroa answers needed
Posted on 10-11-2011 18:10 | By algail
What we all have to do is get together put some money in and make a determined effort at the next election to get rid of this council. A council so badly in debt and so mismanaged that in the private sector they would have been sacked long ago. If the people who vote them in election after election were shareholders in a company that performed as badly as this council, the same people would ne clamering for the director's blood.the latest is the plan to sell off reserves which I guess they can do if they are discretionary sites but if they are gifted and set in concrete for the people of Tauranga lets hope there is activity to stop the sales. One wonders what they will waste the money on from any sales. They spent a lot on a nice concrete pathway along otumoetai waterfront that now has turned from a walkway into a cyclists speedway where the elderly are put in peril every day. They seem to forget that some of the elderly using the walkways that are for everyone may be deaf and cannot hear the mad cyclists bearing down on them Alastair Bethlehem
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