In The Weekend Sun 30 March 2012 Faulkner stated that the $400,000 annual salary of the CEO as quoted by a previous correspondent was false and wrote $320,000 was the true figure. $80,500 is no small disparity; more than most people earn in a year.
The NZ Herald in its issue of 26 March 2012, page A4, listed salaries of all CEO's including the TCC. For the 2011 year TCC CEO's salary was $398,542and for the year 2010 was $405,643. No wonder TTC debt is climbing. Can the Councillors count correctly?
To quote the mobile library cost of $250,000 (which is a free, essential service for children, schools, seniors etc to be continued) was correct in my letter of 5 April 2012. I phoned City Hall and asked for confirmation of the cost of the mobile library service. The first paper shuffler did not know and neither did the second staff member who referred me to a man who said he did not know as it (mobile library) was complicated and tied up with other costs but thought to be between $80-$90,000.
The Council 10 Year Plan for 2012 was received by me the next day's mail quoted $250,000 as the cost of the mobile library.
The 'over-worked, under-paid and under-staffed” at City Hall did not know what was in their own Civic Plan. The TCC and administration is a big costly joke.

H Mckay, Tauranga.