LETTERS

I acknowledge that I am very critical of how the residents and ratepayers of the Golden Bay Ward have been served by our current elected councillors. My criticising emails to them both are passed to staff of the LGOIMA to be vetted as to appropriateness of the subject. They are never answered. We elect our councillors to serve the needs and wants of our small community. They are elected on the promises they make in their pre-election profiles. When they fail in doing what they promised in these profiles we have a right to hold them to account. I do feel that the prohibition of residents/ratepayers criticising elected members or staff at board meetings or online is a barrier to democratic accountability.

On reading the profiles of our current councillors published for the 2019 and 2022 elections, they have failed in their statements of serving us.

The failure to communicate with our residents/ratepayers and follow their statements of “looking like, sounding like, and answerable to its people“, has never happened.

The greatest conflict of all was voting against each other over a decision in 2019 to hold progress on the Waimea Dam until a revision on costings had been made (this was the Cr Greening motion). By voting against each other, it was a waste of power invested in them to represent the overwhelming vote of our ward and those over the hill to stop the dam.

I feel this one act by them is the reason today we have the dam heading to over $250 million and rising.

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Reg Turner

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RESULTS / Hua

GOLF

7 February. Team stableford: R Reynish, M Solly, C LeComte 32. Closest to pin: 9/18 C Crocker.

8 February. Stableford: G Sinclair 37, J Solly 34, R Heuvel 34. Closest to pin: 3/12 G Sinclair, 4/13 D McLaughlin, 8/17 & 9/18 R Dyce. Two: G Sinclair. Best gross: R Dyce 80.

11 February. Bisque bogey: M Dixon +5, R Miller +5, R Davis +4. Closest to pin: 3/12 C Hadler, 4/13 R Dyce, 8/17 and 9/18 W Collie. Two: W Collie, C Hadler. Best gross: R Davis 72.

BRIDGE

8 February. Bainham Pairs Session 1: L Roberts/P Smith 62.50%; B Burdett/H Curtis 59.72%; E Bradshaw/K Neill 57.64%. H/cap: L Roberts/P Smith 62.50%; B Burdett/H Curtis 57.72%; E Bradshaw/K Neill 54.89%.

10 February. Friday Champs Session 1: C Furness 58.70%; A Scotland 56.25%; J Massey 54.35%.

SPORT / Hākinakina