I once was told that if you paid peanuts, you got monkeys. Local Ratepayers pay large dollars and still get monkeys, how does that work out?
To start with, a knee jerk reaction to reduce the speed limit on Maunganui Road by the College as a result of an unfortunate fatal accident, but this speed limit is seldom if ever enforced thus making a joke of the situation. Then another monkey decision declared that the speed around the Mall, Adams Ave and the lower portion of Marine Parade should be reduced to 30kph. Again this was a situation that had no teeth. Speed as per normal.
To continue local idiocy, the Lions Club now is proposing to remove May Street Reserve from a public leisure area to make way for a community garden project that no doubt will make an amusement park for the local vandals. Leave the kids playing area alone and keep them safe way from the traffic.
Lastly, what village idiot came up with the idea to move the I-Site from the beginning of the Mount in Salisbury Ave to be replaced by another building at the other end of town on the Main Beach? Passengers arriving by bus or cruise ship (people who spend money in the area) will not now have a clue where anything is or even how to get to the far distant I-Site. I can't see anyone traipsing all the way to the Main Beach to enquire or purchase their bus tickets.
Is Tauranga so insecure that they have taken to sabotaging the tourist industry for the Mount? The council officer who gave the go ahead for these moves is no further up the intelligence tree than the monkey who first came up with these expensive, ratepayer funded idiotic wastes of money.

K Roke, Papamoa.