Do some Tauranga City councillors really believe tsunami and other disaster risks rank only 7th on the council's priority list? Actually it is 3rd, do they also believe and that warning sirens and resident emergency exits out of Papamoa can be left in limbo?
While it is accepted the huge capital debt created and run up by Mayor Stuart Crosby and his team during the last six years is ratepayers and residents' ‘number one' concern, yet the current bunch have done nothing to address it.
The TCC staff audit fiasco has been canned, at a huge cost, with more staff added and would you believe even more to come?
Second on the hit list is drainage and stormwater remedial infrastructure works over the whole Tauranga area, estimated at $46m plus a further $24m to fix the Mount industrial area.
Although essential infrastructure, nothing has been done for more than 10 years.
And $70m is bad enough but wait for it – TCC councillor Bill Faulkner tells us that in the space of a few weeks the estimated cost has sprouted wings and shot up to $100m.
Frankly, existing councillors and council administration look incapable of getting anything right but Tauranga voters have a chance to correct that position now in upcoming October local body elections!

S. Paterson, Arataki.