A reported recent large drop in library usage at the Tauranga City library makes me wonder if Tauranga City councillors should really now proceed on building a new library at Greerton?

Instead of blindly paying $3.8 million on a new library at Greerton - after being pressured in to it by a few councillors, and loss shops out there - perhaps the project should be deferred?

Instead a library should be installed in one of the large empty shops in Bethlehem's shopping centre to cater for the many people now in that area living in retirement villages, who have no access to a good library there?

It would make much more sense, as this is the only area not catered for. It would serve not only many at retirement age but several schools, which would take advantage of a library at the Bethlehem Town Centre.

Greerton and Papamoa people already have a library. There isn't a library to serve the people of Bethlehem and the country area around it.

The current income being derived from the shops at Greerton by TCC would more than pay for shelving in a new library at the Bethlehem's shopping centre.

Then TCC wouldn't have to find $3.8m to build a new library at Greerton. The building is already there at Bethlehem, empty and waiting to go. Doesn't that make much more sense? How about it guys?

L Askin, Bethlehem.