I entirely support Bill Faulkner's call (Weekend Sun 24th May) that the Council during the upcoming Annual Plan deliberations makes some difficult decisions in regard to basic infrastructure issues, such as storm water.
It is entirely unacceptable that whilst we seem happy to be building waterfront playgrounds, new roundabouts, installing new footpaths in existing areas, replacing existing buildings with new buildings etc that people of this city are still flooding and suffering sewerage overflows due to substandard or inadequate infrastructure.
It's time for this Council to concentrate on the basics and it's not as if the area's being most affected are necessarily new subdivisions but they are existing ones such as Matua and the Mount and this is just not acceptable.
Come on councillors and instead of procrastinating do something, provide the funding so that ratepayers are no longer affected, whenever we have heavy rainfall, as this is your duty ahead of all the nice to have items that you seem to be readily approving.

Mike Baker, Bethlehem.