The future of Tauranga's pools network will be discussed at an extraordinary council meeting on Tuesday April 10.
The meeting follows the Strategy and Policy Committee meeting, and the single agenda item will be discussed in confidentiality.
'It's a follow up really,” says Mayor Stuart Crosby.
'The council made a resolution with regard to TCAL two months ago, so the board of directors which includes three councillors now, will be reporting back to the council on options on moving forward.”
Stuart says the council asked the new directors to give regular updates.
Tauranga City Council deputy mayor David Stewart and councillors Wayne Moultrie and Larry Baldock were appointed TCAL directors in February this year.
David returns to the TCAL board following his resignation in May last year.
Wayne and Larry replace former chairman Warren Banks and Mike King, who resigned on September 28, 2011 over the council's decision to stop the multi-million dollar Mount Hot Pools redevelopment project.
The councillors join current directors Shirley Baker, James Rolleston and CEO Ken Paterson.
The new directors are council's response to a turbulent year that saw the redevelopment project canned, the discovery of a leak under the main pool that resulted in a $2.3 million repair bill, and the announcement in council that the previous directors pursued the ambitious redevelopment proposal when the pools had no resource consent.
5 comments
Brilliant Idea!
Posted on 08-04-2012 10:45 | By Zara
I now, we will get Warren Banks and Tania Delahunty back to make the same mistakes all over again, which the Tauranga City Council do on a regular basis ie thinking they can run commercial enterprises like Baypark and the art gallery etc etc.
Another TCC Cover Up
Posted on 08-04-2012 20:14 | By Jitter
After all the public furore over TCAL and the pools recently this should not be discussed in confidence by TCC but should be open to the public/ratepayers. This is disgusting but not surprising. TCC obviously never learn from past experience. Ratepayers will be fronting up no matter what is decided and whatever ridiculous plans the board of directors come up with. The current CEO and board should all be sacked and control of the pools taken back directly under the control of TCC. Why is a separate TCC company required to run the pools ? Take it back in house and save unneccessary expenditure.
@jitter
Posted on 14-04-2012 09:14 | By The Tomahawk Kid
I think the same problems will reoccur, resulting in the same result we have now if we do the things that you suggest! So what will be the point of the exercise? The only way to achieve a different result is to get out of the entertainment and pools business completely. Sell them to people whose livelihood depends on their success. In the business worl the adage "all care, no sponsibility" is simply a recipe for disaster, and will always result in failure
HOTPOOLS & HOT POTATOES
Posted on 15-04-2012 20:07 | By KAMIKAZE
Herew is the give away and telling factor- TCC held a discussion on this in confidential last Tuesday then leaked the irrelevant titbits out to to media while still hiding the real secret agenda. What a pack of losers you could not rely on anything this lot spewed out.FITH
@ Jitter
Posted on 27-04-2012 17:38 | By PLONKER
Confidential meetings are why these things all happen (that means a disater) TCAL was created so as all and sundry could be hidden and kept hidden from the public for all meetings all of the time. In fact Councillors do not even know what TCAL or its directors are doing. You just have to look at the $1.0-1.4m repair bill last year that ended up as $2.3m and the only explanation out of it was "we could learn a lot from the private sector", news flash ... TCC has been around for how many years and the same old pre-kindergarten mistakes are still happening and those doing it are still there doing it.
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