Commissioners for Tauranga

TAURANGA: The commissioners who will take over the dysfunctional Tauranga City Council are to be announced this week.

This follows Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta sacking the council in December, after the city’s mayor, Tenby Powel,l and two other councillors resigned and called for commissioners to be appointed.

The commissioners are expected to be announced on Thursday and begin work next Monday.

Tauranga has become the fifthlargest city in the country, but is mired with roading and housing issues, and a fiscal hole of $2 billion.

The situation reached a climax last year, when the call to replace the council was made following messy and public infighting between elected members. — RNZ