Tauranga City Council u-turn on signwritten election vehicles, indicates while the rules may have been ill-thought out, Mr Baker for one (as I recall) previously supported prohibiting any election signage when the restrictions were first mooted.
Makes you wonder when people can't or won't obey the rules (pre-latest amendment) or will deliberately flout them, what sort of governance and leadership acumen they show.
Teammate Gail McIntosh's comments seems to indicate either she can't read, or if TCC signage rules don't suit, then the inconvenient truth of September 14 is simply ignored and treated as a misprint without checking.
Frankly one thing is as bad as the other, and as a group you would think these people might at least be singing from the same song sheet.
Let's now look at another piece of TCC madness -Freedom Campers. TCC surely had to severely restrict the number of vehicles, length of stay and limit parking to council-controlled carparks or reserves. Then TCC simply continue to pander to those who effectively bring nothing to Tauranga.
Even Westland District Council had more brains.

R Paterson, Matapihi.