I must take time out to voice my absolute disgust at the way Mayor Tenby Powell was treated at a meeting, after he announced his retirement from his position as mayor of the Tauranga City Council.

To witness the sound of a firm clap from someone present is the absolute abhorrent of common decency.

That person should never be allowed to enter the sanctum of the Council Chamber ever again. I believe you will be identified!

The mayor was elected by all the people to represent all of the people which is something some councillors fail to understand and practise themselves.

This dysfunctional council should all be sacked and a commissioner installed until the next Local Government Elections.

If this continues we will get more of the same and egos will burst.

The Mayor once announced that the city was broke.

He was absolutely right .TCC is broke! You just wait and see. TCC has been broke a while and the position is getting acceleratingly worse.

Councillor Steve Morris once had the audacity to claim in The Weekend Sun that Council debt was secured against Council assets.

A pending $600,000,000 debt to something like $1.5 billion of assets. What absolute nonsense!

Council debt is secured against the ratepayer.

Our capital value.

Some of these councillors have been on Council for several terms. It doesn't take much to identify the shambles over that period of time.

In the meantime l offer Mr Tenby Powell a speedy recovery from his illness and thank him for being our universal Mayor.

R Reid, Otumoetai.