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The CEO said at a full council meeting that the motel "should go back to their insurer" over the flooding of all unites up the wall with a foot of water. You can see here in this photo the water pushing out into State Highway one. Council usually spends $20,000 per year and this year was up around $250,000 outside budget on damage to roads and drains.

The engineer Ted Anderson was away for last council meeting and had Gordon Nado stand in for him to answer questions of staff by full council. The bridge into Tokoroa blocks the water into the stream  and this backs up into the Motel. Council problem or transient New Zealand problem. If I was on council I would put a person under the bridge with a hammer and coal chisel to knock a colvet concrete lip of one foot and free the water. I say the flood is council issue and not transit New Zealand. You have your say in a letter to the editor of south waikato news. We need guests not being turned out into the street at 3am when a light rain floods 25% of Tokoroa guest night accomodation.

You can see the rain drops. And already this is super saturated and threatening to choak state high way one if more rain falls

Lucky we have a 60 Km/HR speed restriction on hydroplane potential.

I agree this blockage is transit New Zealand responsibility but councilman could also stop and clean the enterence of with a person with a letter back and fish this stick out of the water way.

When a flash flood off the hills backs up behind this twig or pushes it down to the bridge area water backs up into the motel

Is council able to spray all this area dead? Or transit New Zealand because the water needs a clean flow so the motels don't flood.

Here is the drain that the motel rakes all the water off 25% of Collson hill where council has its main water supply tank. If council let is water out of the rising main on Collson hill in the direction of the motel this river would run red for the insurance company bottom line.

This is Tokoroa visitors and guests and council humms and harrs over a small drain clean. It's you transit New Zealand the council hids behind. 

This motel has done every thing correctly. The council has not bothered to clean up its act.

The motel pays its rates and asks council for help.

Lo let's look up the road 100m at what council feel is acceptable.

The distinct wide dump sign and 100km/HR speed limit off the 80km/HR speed limit of state high way one. Yes it's council water puddle 100% across the road submerging the give way sign written on the road just before state high way one.

See if you can read the sign mr Craig Hobbs and Ted Anderson and Gordon Nado. This is just up from the motels and nothing to do with Transit New Zealand. Next time the motel floods the south waikato district will get the repair bill and the $250,000 blow our will go to the next order of magnitude because the CEO said to full council responsible for this to send the motel back to the insurer. Gordon Nado did not give a list on bahalf of Ted Aderson of the 50 things council could lawfully do to correct water pooling above and below. Also the deputy mayor drives over this 100% occluded puddle road to get to council meetings. 

To hit that water puddle at 100km/HR because the puddle covers the give way sign on the road would leave CEO responsible and facing jail time for that vehicle going out into the full tragic of state high way one and turning over two passenger service busses full of 100 people.

Tell me foe a communications background is the CEO really putting his skills to got work with this signage? And the Deputy mayor really able to say the state highway one traffic is safe and the motel people can sleep soundly with her 3 terms as deputy? 

All it takes is a car to have an accident and these three signs taken out. 

Then the underwater give way sign is all it takes stop 100km/HR traffic hitting state highway one traffic

Back to the bridge end of this flooding matter below the Motel and CEO needs to get this puddle away.

This tree coverage is council responsibility and running a drain back into the tree area to double the run off drainage would stop the motel flooding then and again now.

is Ted Anderson up to engineering this correction. Is Gordon Nado. The new elected council mist ask 100% responsibility from CEO Criag Hobbs and if the motel floods again then all three need to look for new jobs in areas not related to water and signage. Mayor Sinclair why did you have a private function in the Sports and Event Centre (south waikato news 5 October 2016 p3). If it was private who paid for it? If it was public then council should pay. If a mistake has been made Mayor Sinclair please correct this flooding problem out of your own pocket to do the right thing for the district.

Mistakes happen. And at 76 years old your speed correcting this flooding problem Mayor Sinclair decides the outcome of the election. First item on the agenda after who knocked down love soup kitchens east bowling club and tendered the steel I beam for sale is to address the motel flooding and grave danger to state highway one. Hitting this puddle and crashing into the bridge I would say the CEO goes to jail for manslaughter at worst. Let's get the horror kilometre of flooding, that we enter Tokoroa from the north, cleaned up with a clear drain by the bridge. Who is a good deputy mayor of the 26 candidates to ensure the flooding never happens again. Who is the best mayor to clean this food up. It had been here for the past decade what would change?

The video of responsibility https://youtu.be/UwuBDTpjI28 where full council address the motel flooding.

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Public Gallary at last council meeting. Two candidates (Tokoroa ward foreground , Mayoral centre, and experienced local government staff member far side) take in the final historic meeting of a four term 12 year Mayor.

Letter to the editor. Election Advertising (south waikato news p.6 October 5th 2016)

Leighton Collins wrote, "Once again it does not look good when a Mayor favours one candidate over the others" and stated "This candidate should be barred from the election because of unfair advantage over the other Mayoral Candidates"

Seems to me an election spending issue. $1 per page going to 22,500 residents seems to put a candidate over the $19,000 limit if you add in the signs and car fuel. A John Banks and Kim Dot com moment in South Waikato post election. 

Leighton Collins is calling for "...I consider that this is a blatant form of advertising." And "I consider that that particular member should be withdrawn from the Mayoral elections."

Wow strong stuff happening with two days of campaigning before all signs before come down Friday. 

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22,500 residents in South Waikato with 10,066 rateableproperties 

Will the new Mayor add 6,000 new 18-35 year old residents? (18-35 year olds Who are tax payers for the next 40 years and rate payers for life?)

Will the new Mayor preside over increasing to 28,500 residents and 28,066 rateable properties?

That is an increase of 18,000 new ratable properties.

You choose

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How will the new mayor open the meeting?

Here is a typical opening for the past 12 years http://youtu.be/C1hHNy8akc0

"... as we discuss all those..."

Be upstanding for the prayer.

What came out at the last meeting is the chambers is a public place and the risk and audit committee invited councilors to go into the special counsellors lounge to discuss private matters.

The staff have a staff room down stairs.

So let the submitters and the members of the public have the meeting room with the elected members and the CEO. It has become a feeding frenzy for staff members at the brakes as staff have become accustom to tucking into the members lunch allowance and crowding out the public.

This staff scrum of entitlement has led to a false sense of security by elected members. 

So I hope the prayer is updated the Prayer said in the House of Parliament in Wellington.

It seems the elected members and staff over lunch are "discussing all those..."

Well the ones that are public excluded.

Time for a change on this one. The CEO can decide to eat with his staff in a separate room or eat with the elected members and the community in a public room or join the concilors in the Councilor lounge. But not invite his staff to dine at the exclusion of the public.

That is where I think we get the mandate to destroy the building of the love soup kitchen. 

With that building now seeking atonement for its distraction the eating arrangements of the CEO must now change too so that we do not see a repeat of the destructive impatience because things are too much trouble. 

How will council conduct business under the new Mayor?

The last council and final meeting of the old concil on 29 September 2016 in Tokoroa Chambers was presented a Waikato Tourism summary. (I was asked how mush did our council pay to this group along with the other 12 or so council in the Waikato region. Under $100,000 perhaps?)

(Click here to see the summary of tourism in waikato region -->) http://youtu.be/F34W9ZuPcf8

And trade training awards recognised in full council on 29 September 2016

Video here --> http://youtu.be/YEIQ8b4hfbQ

One commentator has said that before the 12 persons would have taken apprenticeships with local business. Now a tertiary provider charges tuition fees and students go into debt with student loans for living costs and the course with not guarantee of a job at the end of it. The commentator also asked why $200,000 of council funds was benefiting outside the district organisations treasury organisation and also saving local businesses from paying wages to train 12 students per year in apprentiships in a 22,500 population distinct. ($10 per person in the district set up cost)

For similar money the swimming  pools could be $0.10 cents entry for all local residents with a library card and teaching learn to swim 24/7 classes. Learn to swim better would open up more job opportunities on the river and sea that surround New Zealand, and save lives in the process.

Teaching good reading and math skills in the library are far more core council business, in improving job opportunities,  than limiting access to alcohol and gambling. A drunk broke youth population who can't swim and are illiterate and enumerate are what the council has on its hands. Council by raising the pool prices 33% in 2010 and delaying the free internet at the library (and turning off wifi after hours at the library) and limiting the access to the Internet is in part having youth smash school Windows. 

Core business of council must be done well and leave it to the community to organising better training opportunities with central government help. Our rates and fees are paid to develop 18,000 new sections so that our 18-65 year olds can get on the property ladder, out of debt, and use the collateral of a house and land to fund business development. Council needs to front run the New Zealand housing crisis and make our district rich again. That is vision.

The New mayor and 26 possible deputy mayoral candidates what you say!

This blog is an example to each new council on what can be done. 

Councillors Start a blog day one to communicate with the community. It's free and it's fun. This is an example to you all on how to use the internet to improve local council. And the public can feed back to you like some of you have done with my invite to the Tirau Hall for a deputy mayor debate.

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Be ready for new apps on smart phones for council notices

This video had communications manager presenting to full council for money.

http://youtu.be/OEF0xWYhMs4 ( <--- click here for video to play)

And the air port delays, for the international model park, mount like a constipated geriatric.

The saying "kick for touch" comes to mind as Mayor Sinclair runs the clock out on that last chance for a delisted airfield.  A summer of increased revenue for council from the community assets, the airfield, as delisting the airfield still let's locals take off and land full sized aircraft and delisting the airfield  makes it legal for 14,000 Tokoroa residents to open a drone, as a gift, and fly in the local council parks, like you can in Hamilton, Rotorua, Taupo, and the other proactive councils that see the future and educate the young, and embrace the new technology of drone flying as a career path where some pilots of the models get paid more than the Mayor at $150,000 pa.

Here is the interview with the proponent of the International Model park before the full council meeting unfolded to see the staff obfuscate to the clear direction from  governance at last meeting chaired by Herman Van Roojien to get on with it. Annual leave taken, redundant second opinions sought, the mayor happy to stand and be called out knowing he had run the clock out on a protential Mayoral Candidate and thus starving the oxygen from the air of competition with his endorsed candidate. (What happened to the rank and station being independent when in office as Mayor or President of the United States)

(Click here to play video ->) http://youtu.be/n0DJ3kYJWAI

Interview over airfield above.

If this happens to one promoting such a simple jobs creation and skills aquisition idea then what would happen with the past council with setting up a 200 person Abattoir? 

Cr Thomas Lee asked at the meeting for reason that these 200 jobs from the drive trust money, $24 million, did not go ahead. CEO cited "Public access" as a reason it fell over, among other reasons, and wanted it hushed.

I hope none of the sitting Councilors apply for the Management position created when the $24,000,000 of the Drive Trust gets merged with the South Waikato Investment fund trust that will happen over the next four month. 

We, as a community in South Waikato, would not want to see a hedge of council funds for a back door golden parachute if any of the elected members are not elected at this round of local body elections. 

If you feel strongly about no councilors taking up this management position to promote the Distict and create jobs then please write to the new mayor of south waikato district council and voice your concerns.

We do not want to see perceived contingency planning, by some elected members, taking priority over public benefits like delisting the airport do we. 

I have drafted my letter. 

Titled transparency. 

The video footage of the meeting is to keep elected members accountable and it is elected members job to keep the CEO accountable. 

A break down with staff on any matter directly reflects on elected members 100%. 

No wriggle room. 

100%. 

It is up to the CEO to protect his hide and if any room left after this then the hide of the community. 

And it is elected members to take that advice but if elected members find the CEO misleads council and does not stop staff misleading then elected members must make consequences for the CEO.

Council, in its decisions, then and always is 100% responsibility for CEO's actions. (Like demolition of the east bowling club and selling the I beam left over. Show the resolution from council that mandates the distraction of the east bowling club that the CEO acted upon. You have seen the video of the report of the CEO back to a bewildered Cr Thomas Lee fielding members information request as to why the A frame was destroyed too)

Responsibility rests with elected members.

The sanction, of dismissing the CEO, is the ultimate sanction elected members only have. The reigns to pull up a wayward staff is that should happen over the east bowling club or any other matter the community brings to the table like spraying weeds and nicely planted trees.

 The ultimate remedy, for elected members, to gather control, over the CEO, is to reenforce that the CEO only act on resolution from full council to that affect. Where was it that a community building, in east bowling club, was to be demolished just days before the parties moved them to new sites. 

Has the council been misled over the airfield? 

Mr Simpson makes an eloquent case for council being miss lead on many points of fact over a long period of time about the airfield. 

You be the judge. 

Public opinion. 

Elections and ballot box is your way to get accountability for the CEO actions and staff. 

Will we have an international model park this summer? 

Ask the new mayor!

Only elect members who take 100% responsibility for what happens out of council.

Those that say they rely on the advice of staff are wrong. (The staff advice the CEO and the CEO advises the full council only. Spending the responsibility to 150 council staff and 47 cars is why the east bowling club got squashed and the love soup kitchen got frog marched off by the scruff of the neck from the sports and event centre car park. 

Show us the elected members resolution to do this. Their is not. So why did it happen. Don't like it then don't elect. 

The next mayor first order of business may be to take the cost of the love soup kitchen building and the A frame out of the CEO pay over the next three years. Why should the community suffer the loss when the CEO was totally responsible for the demolition decision. Because if you can not find a resolution from full council to say demolish it was a unilateral decision.

And the Councilors of the new elected body must make recompense of the love soup kitchen the number one agenda item.

If heads are going to roll then day one is the best time.

Justice must be done and seen to be done. One head rolling means 149 keep theirs.

No heads rolling means all 150 take not responsibility for any actions taken outside council resolution and that is what we have with love soup.

Elected members can move onto the international model park at the airfield agenda number two.

When I say heads roll I mean the coins are pushed across the table to pay for the damage done. (A group of youth smashed school Windows in the weekend reported by south waikato news and a few $1,000 damage. The CEO destroyed $200,000 worth of buildings without a resolution from council to do so and love soup are homeless feeding the homeless and that included smashing all the windows of love soup east bowling club). So pay up to keep your job is my public submission. We all ,are mistakes and these youth are no different from the CEO. They have families to go home to at night. Individually we can be compassionate but justice must not be. The rule of law applies to all. Whoever breaks a glass window deliberately with ill intent must be held to account. And pay a small atonement by rolling coins from one side of the table to the other side for the aggrieved party to capture.

Let the new elected council take full responsibility for the loss of love soup and honour the pledges made by the then mayor and then deputy mayor on behalf of the council. 

Audit and risk committee chair (left) will be back next term and advise on setting this agenda concerning the CEO (right).

In the last week lets get the four mayoral candidates weighing into this matter and the 26 potential deputy mayors taking a position in this matter. Email them now for a reply and forward them to me for feed back. This can be treated as a hypothetical exercise if you like and the opinions above are my honest opinions with the limited facts I have to hand. Full council will have the power to get at the full suit of facts. I am asking for more information (community information request if you like). And elected members to champion it and deliberate and decide. But it must first be an agreed agenda item put up by the new Mayor. So ask them now. Voting closes at the end of the day Saturday week. 

Seems from these staff comments and elected members support that the love soup kitchen was in the way of the sports and event centre (watch quick minute video on enterence 2017 here-->)http://youtu.be/QeSW9gg5Xgo

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http://youtu.be/hBB8ZeZrWsY (click here to watch the full presentation video)

Council meeting Art. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByH8M07uCuiHWlF1Mk9XT0NsQzQ

Terry Fergusson takes time out of his day to reset council priorities.

An hour of interview before the handover a Terry filled in "between the two ferns" and we talked about art for arts sake and Bruce Simpson (the fifth mayoral Candiate) and talked about "science for science sake" and I summed it up as "politics for politics sake"

Three of the four mayoral candidates were in the room. Jarrad Gallagher was absent.

I hope this does not breach copyright Terry but by putting this on permanent loan, to give back what Tokoroa has given the Bushman's son, we are reminded that it is about relationships between people that capture what is the essence of life.

I think I played cricket with your nephew looking at the resemblance of this photo and the penny dropping to the name.

The highlight was asking Marin if it would be okay if the council's guest who was donating a million dollar painting suit had a cup of tea and then asking Terry "would you like a cup of tea?" "I am parched" he replied. Then opening the door and passing the guest into hands of the Thomas Lee and one other.

Three Mayoral Candiates (Alan Blair (left), Tracey Deane (middle), and (right) withdraw candidate Bruce Simpson, as Terry Fergusson takes his seat after presenting his art work.

The handshake initiation.

It was the last meeting of full council for this term. One of the three mayoral Candiates in the room (Alan Blair, Tracey Dean, and Jenny Shattock) will be Mayor in a week. (I could be wrong)

And council business video over $24 million now central government is not going to amalgamate outside of Auckland city.  http://youtu.be/ERKkAAxXb04

Compliments to candidate Kim (in fore ground next to Mayoral Candidate for attending the final meeting of full council for the year.

 Alan Blair reads agenda from back of the room next to two new staff members.

Staff

Elected members being independently chaired in the Audit and Risk committee.

Auditors report delivered.

Mayoral candidate and two Tokoroa ward candidates. 

Again lovely art work

Interview before the presentation

1.http://youtu.be/pEC9MhTWcJo

2.http://youtu.be/ZfGey9k-GUc

3.http://youtu.be/hJnjjnOupCg

4.http://youtu.be/l5PEVAKV8UU