Tauranga City Council is the happy recipient of $100,000 aimed at convincing the authority to perform a U-turn on its decision to block funding on the Omokoroa to Otumoetai cycleway.

That is the hope of Tauranga Roundtable members, who presented the cheque to TCC at last night's meeting of the City Directions Committee in Bethlehem.

Roundtable president Phil Hunt presents the cheque to Mayor Stuart Crosby. Photo: Supplied.

The cheque is made out to 'Tauranga to Omokoroa Cycle Track” - a project city councillors originally voted against because of the $500,000 cost.

The 5-4 decision to withdraw from a project it had already agreed to in principle sparked a number of critical submissions in council's recent long term plan hearings.

Mayor Stuart Crosby says at this stage, he cannot comment on whether the donation will change their minds.

'There's a number of options,” says Stuart. 'We could stay with our current position, we could fund the half-a-million as requested, or we could reallocate existing resources from within our budget so there is no net difference.

'So those are the three options we will be looking at. We will be going through that process in deliberations from June 3 onwards.”

Councillors Bev Edlin and Gail McIntosh have been in discussion with the service club, which was looking for a suitable destination for $100,000 left over from its now defunct Blues, Brews and Barbecues fundraiser.

'It was gratefully received,” says Stuart.

The Coastal Cycleway project is a partnership with the Western Bay of Plenty District Council, who have committed to paying for the Omokoroa to Wairoa section.

Tauranga City will pay for the river to Omokoroa section, with the government footing $1 million for the bridge across the river beside the railway line.