Tauranga's Vanessa Byrnes is leading a campaign to get every Bay of Plenty resident to put forward a submission on the Tauranga City Council's controversial proposal to introduce charges on some library books.

Vanessa Byrnes is taking her campaign to the streets over the next four weeks in protest over a proposal to charge for some library book borrowing.

Residents will get four weeks from Monday to make a submission on the issue.
Vanessa is leading the ‘Save our Library Campaign' and will spend the next four weeks encouraging everyone in the region to put forward a submission.
TCC is proposing to charge 50 cents for all adult library books.
'It's a ridiculous proposal and it's shameful the council has got to this point,” says Vanessa.
'This council is so indebted they are attacking anything they can to scramble back up the cliff.”
She and other members of the campaign will be out on the streets of Tauranga – at schools, service groups, the jazz festival and other events with 10,000 copies of submissions.
People can also access submissions online at the TCC website: www.tauranga.govt.nz