• Mayors Crosby and Paterson whining in tandem about abysmal league table rankings. Well ratepayers have been onto this for yonks and now a professional independent source vindicates the critics.
• Waterfront Development plans, the Council taskforce talking up the ugly container restaurant again. Forget it, this is not in keeping with projected clean, open greenspace image nor the RMA Consent blurb or stated TCC Policy.
• Pyes Pa Crematorium Chapel – Yes, like other towns Tauranga should have a reception area, 100m2 about right but $225,000 cost way over the top for 4 walls, kitchen and toilet facilities. Never a Council business, ignore whingeing, must be user pays.
• Tsunami siren backflip fiasco, TCC Councillors wouldn't listen – now look like chumps. Just ignore TCC involvement, Papamoa Community must go with 10 Tactool air raid type sirens and seek $200,000 Community Funding alone.
• Pilot Bay boardwalk, still obstructive, obtrusive and needless. Perhaps a small aggregate path between toilets and boat ramp, otherwise environmentally unfriendly.
• CBD ‘Renaissance Art on Walls', no firm costings and cheek to say ratepayers not paying. Think again, Central City Action Group is basically made up of Council /hangers-on, all funded by TCC ratepayers. Graffiti-proofing $33,000 met from surplus TCC carparking funds. What's this?

R Paterson, Matapihi.