Face the cold, hard facts

The Gore District Council is a worry, being so often offside with its ratepayers.

Recent protests against the water-bridge, the oversight laying synthetic carpet in the new council building, and the circus that is the Streets Alive initiative, point to a council fighting its own ratepayers and wasting their money.

Now the discovery that the council’s civic administration building is a freezing chamber insults rural ratepayers who sensibly would have suggested a wool carpet to address some of those heating costs.

What’s the point? The latest resident survey records the council has a satisfaction rate of 38 per cent. Councillors might just get the message their reading of the public mood is woeful.

Their inability to concentrate on core activities in favour of their ‘‘fairy dust’’ pursuits is like Alice in Wonderland.

Wise up. They are there to serve their ratepayers. The council is funded from working people’s wages and salaries. Save your (our) money.

The new council chamber won’t need heating when Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta comes cutting out inefficient local government bodies.

Gore will be first at last, and the council chamber will join the herd of white elephants.