In respect to the proposal (Faulkner's corner 11 Nov) to consider the sale of some of the 280 ratepayer owned properties within the City, I believe that it will require considerably more than 'big tummy muscles' from some of our elected members in order to proceed past go with this proposal as their past performance does not bode well.
I am neither supporting or opposing the current proposal but the now vacant May Street reserve at the Mount and the debacle over the ongoing funding for the Sydenham reserve, in Otumoetai, does not give me any faith that the councillors have the fortitude or desire to make some really hard decisions regarding the debt levels and costs facing this city.
The May Street reserve was going to be sold to assist in part funding of the cost of the Mount Greens project but public pressure and weak tummy muscles precluded this from happening and now the reserve is just a vacant piece of land costing ratepayers money to maintain.
The current councillors and if not them future Councils, must now make some tough decisions on our behalf or we will continue to face rate increases significantly higher than inflationary pressures.
Mike Baker, Bethlehem.
7 comments
THIS CAMPER IS ON THE WRONG PLANET
Posted on 20-11-2011 16:06 | By WIDOWMAKER
There is a rather concerning case of lapse of memory here, Mike clearly forgets all the finger pointing here but of course when he did so four were still pointing at himself!
Brain fade on Planet Bongo claptrap
Posted on 21-11-2011 18:19 | By Hebegeebies
Get off the grass mate this is not what you practised preached or voted for when you were a TCC Councillor and spending money like confetti.Unless your buddy Baldock glombs a MP List seat the TCC local body elections are 2years away so rest up.Liked the silent service better than the weekly drivel too.
Please be nice to Mike folks
Posted on 22-11-2011 02:35 | By THOMAS BROWN
He is a nice man really, he does his best and that is all we can ask of anyone. We all liked him when he was here at Council, he was really good sometimes when we asked him to do things he often would go to it with such a lot of enthusiasm, shame he left I guess it had something to do with that other fellow that left at the same time.
NICE TO MIKE, WHY?
Posted on 22-11-2011 17:50 | By SCOTT NUFFIN4U
This clown along with his other co-conspiritors worked a hatchet job on the ratepayers so why is this letter even permitted, should have been filed in the round tin.
wreckless
Posted on 22-11-2011 19:15 | By tonyb1
If the council started running the city as most buisness owners have too we may gat in the black, must be nice to budget based on what you want and just pass on the short fall too the rate payers, imagine being able to buy a new car and to pay for it you loaded a tarrif on to your customer, wouldnt it be great
LETTER IS CORRECT
Posted on 22-11-2011 23:51 | By ANNA KISSED
But the writter has a very short memory of the factor that he fully participated in every aspect of the voting to spend up on a raft of whacky schemes to plunder the ratepayers purse time and again.
DEFINE DEMOCRACY?
Posted on 23-11-2011 13:48 | By SCARLET PIMPINEL
'The fate of democracies” attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler a respected Edinburgh University Historian 200 years ago advised that a democracy is always temporary, and therefore cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It will only exist until the voters discover that they can reward themselves from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury. A democracy therefore always collapses over loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship . The average of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. During those 200 years , these nations always progressed through the following fatal sequence. From bondage to spiritual faith, From spiritual faith to great courage, From courage to liberty, From Liberty to abundance, From abundance to complacency, From complacency to apathy, From apathy to dependence, From dependence back into bondage.
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