There it is, we have been told the Tauranga City Council is going to plan our future starting on a new blank sheet.
I hope the key points of council's historical failures and successes have been documented as helpful reference points in the preparation of the new direction.
To our council representatives and policy-makers, please remember you get paid generously for doing your job and are accountable to your ratepayers.
Winston Churchill once said: 'If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future”.
Look well, therefore, to our common goals. To borrow another modified version of Winston's sayings, we are all worms, but who among you will be remembered by us as glow worms.
I wish our new councillors all the success for the future.

Dave Wilson, Mount Maunganui.