Ms Clark's (Raging Readers) rant in Friday's Weekend Sun deserves all the derision it will get. Obviously the Councillors did not entirely accept the story they were being told but as they are paranoid about losing votes, the canned the proposed TCC Library book surcharges without further ado. While I do not support the Council ‘Yes' team due to Crs Baker and Moultrie, who Ms Clark is taking pot-shots at, they are entitled to question the veracity of the claims made. From what I hear, very few Councillors were overly impressed with the submission, so perhaps that tells a story in itself. The righteous indignation displayed by the submitters simply looks like bluster and a smokescreen if the facts can't be massaged to suit.
On the question of the mess up in the Hearing Date, this was inexcusable on Council's part and they certainly deserve all the flak they get for this as it's not an isolated occurrence.
MS Senior, Mt Maunganui.