There is no problem at all with the current members of the TCC council. The problem is the silly people who live in Tauranga that keep voting them into power.
The current mob who hold the reigns of the downfall of Tauranga are very good at what they do.
I doubt if there is a bunch of people anywhere in the world so expert at raising debt levels through the roof or better at paying more for a property than it is worth, of raising rate payments at such an even upward curve and let's not forget sharing a huge amount of the collected rate money among themselves to pay their wages.
Wake up Tauranga and try to see that 2% rise this year is in place because its close to an election. I suspect that many people will in the coming years be rated out of their homes with the rate rises that will be required to keep Tauranga running. Intelligent voting could see it stopped .

Alastair Bourne, Bethlehem.