Comments from our Chamber of Commerce leader in the media last week for the continuation of commissioners at Tauranga City Council should not go unchecked.

The four commissioners appointed under now dubious circumstances should be gone by Monday on three points alone.

First, the Memorial Pool upgrade for $50 million - more than double the price of a reported new one in Christchurch; next, support for clogging Cameron Road with buses, cycle ways and footpaths in a leapfrog project way before its time, and now commissioners with their hand up (one of the first councils) to sell out ratepayers of this city on one of the best clean water supply infrastructures in New Zealand.

In my view, it is time for residential ratepayers in Tauranga to wake up to one of the biggest wroughts of public money, brought about by greedy developers and a harmful socialist government.

Doug Morris, Tauranga.