Mayor Crosby is at it again and here are just a few gaffes to conjure up with before TCC Elections in October.
- He doesn't seem to know the difference between a fully owned local community paper, employing staff and providing employment to Tauranga and the APN Australian publication that is no longer local and has recently cut staff. His predilection with the ‘City Partners' scheme is probably the reason for this brainfade.
- Says that $1/2 million spent on consultants for staff reviews and CCO's amalgamation is well spent and will save money, yet produces no tangible evidence to support this absurd claim.
Pilot Bay boardwalk turnaround is a fiasco and should have spoken to locals first before launching into a three metre track costing $1m cutting a swathe through the grassed foreshore area.
-Tsunami Alarms rethink spending a fortune on Meerkat assessments and now looks like he accepts Papamoa residents were right on Tactool Alarms at $200,000 versus $1.2m electronic option preferred by him.
-Supported payment of the $90,000 loan and $40,000 grant to the 2012 Jazz Festival breaking Council's criteria, resulting in $130,000 loss to TCC ratepayers.
These are only some examples, the tip of the iceberg – you might say. Mayor Crosby's success rate in the last 20 years zilch, zero, zippo – take your pick. His promises lemons would not cost TCC ratepayers has proved hollow and wrong each time. Is Mr Crosby someone you would vote for in October 2013? We only hear his views, what about Councillors, don't they ever get to speak?

MS Senior, Mt Maunganui.