Tamahere over spend
I refer to your story about the Tamahere playground (12/10/2018).
I am not surprised to see the cost over runs on the reserve.
They did the job in mid winter. They had a 25-tonne grader levelling mud.
They then had bobcats shifting mud. They had plenty of topsoil but bought more and they dug a hole for flood retention and that filled with silt.
Then oh gosh ‘‘what do we do with that ‘‘oh I know ‘‘ we will pump it into the stormwater system’’.
Oh it has ended up in the creek. Damn. This was done not once but three times before it was stopped.
One email to WDC went nowhere, in fact two years later still nothing. This cost the contractors a lot of money in fines and reparations. That was done by Waikato Regional Council, and the Waikato District Council who had an appointed person looking after the contract, and avoided any responsibility.
That person should have been held accountable I feel sorry for the elected members as the executive must spend a lot of time covering arse.
They spend like drunken sailors with very little accountability to the ratepayers, let alone councillors.
I always understood that if you have a contract or quote of $406,000.00 that it should have been the end, instead it has gone to $1.6 million.
This issue is an indictment on the executive of this council which every month has new staff who have no idea what the last person did.
I would call it didactic failure. The list could go on but you get the issues, they just keep reoccurring.
Arnold Koppens, Hamilton