Category: Tauranga Council
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Too Many Managers
And not enough ratepayers. Tauranga City Council has too many managers (seagulls). For the 2022-23 year there were 1033.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees working for Tauranga City Council (2023 Annual Report). Over the same period there were 190.5 managers (LGOIMA request 2024/q4/90524). This means that there are 843 non managerial staff, with one manager per…
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Reorganising Council
Marty Grenfell (above) is the chief executive (CE) of Tauranga City Council. The CE reports to the Mayor and councillors. The CE is employed by the Mayor and councillors, and is responsible for employing and managing all other council staff. The council structure is defined by law in the Local Government Act (the LGA). The…
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Council Debt
Tauranga Council has the highest debt per capita in New Zealand (see the below chart). These figures have been prepared by John Robson (Johns Website). Total council debt including off the books IFF debt is estimated at around $3 billion by 2034. The graph below shows the estimated debt, $2.5 billion by 2030. The debt…
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Capital Expenses For The CBD
The commissioners have committed Tauranga Council to spend over one billion dollars of capital spend on the CBD These figures include inflation, but do not include cost overruns. The final tally will be much higher (SBOP City Center Capital Spend). There will also be interest and running costs of tens of millions of dollars a…