STOP TAURANGA CITY COUNCIL BORROWING $265 MILLION Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/stop-tauranga-city-council-borrowing-265-million.html Online petition signatures en-us Tue, 7 Apr 2026 11:33 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Anonymous [Signature #89] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23504309?utm_medium=rss Until they can detail exact spending , a plan to control expenditure blowouts and show a cost savings plan for the Council administration then the rates increase and the borrowing should be put on hold. They have wasted too much money on fruitless, pointless works. Lets see the full plan in detail.

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:55:23 UTC 23504309 kaye davey [Signature #88] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23453231?utm_medium=rss Fri, 7 Feb 2020 05:40:59 UTC 23453231 Anonymous [Signature #87] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22675243?utm_medium=rss Tue, 1 Jan 2019 09:45:19 UTC 22675243 Anonymous [Signature #86] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22287627?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Jul 2018 05:35:44 UTC 22287627 LYNETTE IKI [Signature #85] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22117386?utm_medium=rss Progress and upgrades are good when you have the money. Maybe its time they gave up their flash trucks, cars, offices, expensive cobbled roads, and exorbitant wages to pay the bill themselves. I am sure their is at least 50 million wages paid out to them every year or am I exaggerating a bit. Or is it time to get new people in council.

]]> Wed, 4 Apr 2018 11:47:57 UTC 22117386 Anonymous [Signature #84] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22084680?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Mar 2018 02:26:43 UTC 22084680 Anonymous [Signature #83] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21264406?utm_medium=rss Already pay enough rates. Thats why we moved out of Auckland. It was too expensive to live in.

]]> Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:00:29 UTC 21264406 Anonymous [Signature #82] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21260639?utm_medium=rss Tue, 11 Apr 2017 02:57:55 UTC 21260639 paul king [Signature #81] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21234475?utm_medium=rss seems like a waste of money to me, it could be used better on educational and medical advances. not for tourism, new buidings wont get us more visitors.

]]> Sat, 1 Apr 2017 12:43:32 UTC 21234475 Braidyn Webb [Signature #80] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21233632?utm_medium=rss Fri, 31 Mar 2017 07:14:32 UTC 21233632 Emma Frost [Signature #79] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21232081?utm_medium=rss Let's stop our Council wasting the money we pay in rates for nothing in return! Shameful!

]]> Fri, 31 Mar 2017 09:19:48 UTC 21232081 Nicola Webster [Signature #78] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21231863?utm_medium=rss My home town of Tauranga council needs a shake up, stop wasting money & getting the city in debt. Why on earth you build stairs into the water right in front of a children's playground! who's stupid idea was that. The council needs fresh young people not old farts wasting money on stupid things like tga museum, and debt.

]]> Fri, 31 Mar 2017 07:44:07 UTC 21231863 Gae Webster [Signature #77] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21231839?utm_medium=rss My rates should not go up & be paying for more people to be crammed into Tauranga, and getting tga into debt.

]]> Fri, 31 Mar 2017 07:31:10 UTC 21231839 Anonymous [Signature #76] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21231559?utm_medium=rss Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:27:51 UTC 21231559 Jacqui Holt [Signature #75] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21231481?utm_medium=rss Just No

]]> Fri, 31 Mar 2017 04:14:10 UTC 21231481 Anonymous [Signature #74] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21229986?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:08:22 UTC 21229986 Anonymous [Signature #73] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21229702?utm_medium=rss We pay enough already. Let the developers and new residents pay their own dues.

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 06:06:13 UTC 21229702 Graeme Jones [Signature #72] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21229695?utm_medium=rss We pay enough already for rates, water, rubbish, Southern Pipeline.

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 06:03:21 UTC 21229695 Dan Russell [Signature #71] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21229430?utm_medium=rss Tauranga City Councillors need to get some backbone and stand up to Central Government. They may have ordered councils to make more land available for housing but has anyone tested Government's legal power to do this?

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 05:16:41 UTC 21229430 Anonymous [Signature #70] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227555?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:03:30 UTC 21227555 Anonymous [Signature #69] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227415?utm_medium=rss What the hell is wrong with these people? Why don't they be realistic? Do they really need all that money or is it to line their pockets? ASSHOLES!!!

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:52:16 UTC 21227415 Anonymous [Signature #68] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227413?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:51:06 UTC 21227413 patrick bailey [Signature #67] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227398?utm_medium=rss Borrow this money in the councillors names
not the rate payers names, I bet you would think twice

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:33:11 UTC 21227398 Vanessa Kururangi [Signature #66] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227388?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:29:31 UTC 21227388 Anonymous [Signature #65] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227343?utm_medium=rss How about you start charging the developers more as they are the main ones benefiting from this. We as rate payers get the downsides of additional traffic and all the other issues that go with growth. Welcome Bay's new roundabout is a prime example of no forward thinking, one lane in, one lane out?? Look at the traffic issues now let alone when Tauranga is developed more.

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:50:21 UTC 21227343 Ryan Douglas [Signature #64] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227336?utm_medium=rss We already pay enough tax no need for more

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:43:10 UTC 21227336 sandy nightingale [Signature #63] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227163?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 06:05:54 UTC 21227163 Tim Winslade [Signature #62] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227077?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 05:04:27 UTC 21227077 Tk Kopa [Signature #61] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227034?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 04:41:52 UTC 21227034 Anonymous [Signature #60] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21227009?utm_medium=rss we pay enough now as it is

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 04:25:41 UTC 21227009 Brendan Smith [Signature #59] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226995?utm_medium=rss Tauranga rates are already as high as Auckland. What will this added debt do to them?

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 04:18:54 UTC 21226995 Anonymous [Signature #58] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226950?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 03:57:29 UTC 21226950 Teeta McLeod [Signature #57] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226915?utm_medium=rss Totally disagree with Tauranga council to borrow $265ml

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 03:40:03 UTC 21226915 Tracy Grove [Signature #56] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226892?utm_medium=rss Absolute ridiculous amount of debt for us to take on! The council needs to start listening to the rate payers and stop spending our money as if there an endless supply of it. Spend our money on important needed areas instead of a whole lot of unnecessary things that they want

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 03:27:26 UTC 21226892 Kim Farquhar [Signature #55] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226829?utm_medium=rss Rates are already high, plus we pay for rubbish on top of that. Making housing even more expensive for first home buyers.

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 03:03:27 UTC 21226829 Nakita Tapiata [Signature #54] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226742?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 02:35:03 UTC 21226742 Lawrence Green [Signature #53] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226640?utm_medium=rss Enough is enough! Ratepayers, especially those on a fixed income, cannot keep up with the ever-increasing cost of living.

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 01:47:56 UTC 21226640 Vinnie Baker [Signature #52] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226577?utm_medium=rss As if our rates weren't enough for young people who have just bought their first home in tauranga.

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 01:20:46 UTC 21226577 Ian Pearson [Signature #51] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226417?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:24:43 UTC 21226417 Anonymous [Signature #50] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226411?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:21:37 UTC 21226411 Murray Guy [Signature #49] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226389?utm_medium=rss The loan represents a 'ticking time bomb'' likely to explode in the face of ratepayers sooner rather than later. Staff, the Mayor and Councillors, their sycophant buddies will pretend this is a 'gift' enabling them to further increase the staff empire and spend up large on their ego tripping white elephant Central Business District projects such as rate gobbling museum and unnecessary library development.
Elected members have already doubled the previous maximum 2% rate increase policy and clearly demonstrated a contempt for pre-election promises, integrity applied democracy and the community. Assurances by EMs that they can pull out, negotiate better terms, are just a diversion from reality, having known the terms, way back' from the outset. Agreeing to apply sends the clear message that is where they are heading and implies commitment.

]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:14:31 UTC 21226389 Simon Daley [Signature #48] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226364?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:03:56 UTC 21226364 Anonymous [Signature #47] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226310?utm_medium=rss Why encourage ''ballooning'' development at ratepayers' expense? Carefully controlled development needs to be in place within affordable parameters. The aging population will be saddled with the repayments, added to the government's intention to increase taxes to pay for the new NZ Fire and Emergency body.

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:50:22 UTC 21226310 Anonymous [Signature #46] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226249?utm_medium=rss No thanks, I think we pay enough for things that should already be included in our rates etc. We're not Auckland. Let's keep it that way. You add that many houses etc to our city and your inviting more debt to be spent on upgrading motorways and infrastructure to cope with congestion. Think about it.

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:33:25 UTC 21226249 Ron Moore [Signature #45] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226224?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:24:46 UTC 21226224 Anonymous [Signature #44] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226197?utm_medium=rss Didn't realise we paid for rubbish collection and I have to pay for my Kleana bin..I agree with all points raised tolls road, expensive rates, we are only just surviving the rates we have now on one income

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:15:28 UTC 21226197 Anonymous [Signature #43] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226149?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:58:15 UTC 21226149 Paula Rowe [Signature #42] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226094?utm_medium=rss Pay outstanding debt first.
Listen to the people, remember who voted you in and for what purpose., if it was your
money wouldnt you be more wary of what you did with it. THINK OUTSIDE THE SQUARE IF YOU CAN.
If all ratepayers deceided to not pay rates where would you be.
Maybe a petition can be started about non payments of rates. Food for thought

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:44:16 UTC 21226094 Hori Ngatai [Signature #41] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226063?utm_medium=rss our rates are to high enough now without this council adding more debt

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:33:34 UTC 21226063 Gerd Matthesius [Signature #40] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226062?utm_medium=rss Members of TCC appear to suffer from "left hand doesn't know what right hand is doing"!
Another demonstration of their lack of strategy to look after the people whom they serve.

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:33:26 UTC 21226062 Anne Fletcher [Signature #39] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21226024?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:23:48 UTC 21226024 Richard McGrath [Signature #38] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21225941?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:03:59 UTC 21225941 Anonymous [Signature #37] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21225725?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:09:55 UTC 21225725 Anonymous [Signature #36] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21225082?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:14:13 UTC 21225082 Anonymous [Signature #35] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21224856?utm_medium=rss We dont have evwn have foot paths or curbing and we pay some of the highest rates in the area. We dont get recycling we have to do it ourselves. We are about to get a water meter. How do u justify a rates increase when the person paying for it gets not a thing in return or to show for it!

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:30:09 UTC 21224856 Anonymous [Signature #34] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21224814?utm_medium=rss No, I was born and raised here my whole life, it is so sad to see my city turning into Auckland. The rates etc are high enough as it is. It's a struggle for locals to live!!! Why do this to your own people! WE DON'T WANT MORE UNNECESSARY STUFF IN OUR CITY!!!! HUGE WASTE OF MONEY!!!! Especially when we can not afford it in the first place! Terrible tauranga city council.

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:21:44 UTC 21224814 Carol Malone [Signature #33] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21224545?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:32:36 UTC 21224545 Gloria Mcisaac [Signature #32] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21224503?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:26:15 UTC 21224503 Tania Lewis-Rickard [Signature #31] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21224473?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:20:12 UTC 21224473 kasey coward [Signature #30] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21223956?utm_medium=rss stop this the city is fine as it is for now

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:12:50 UTC 21223956 Anonymous [Signature #29] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21223235?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:56:28 UTC 21223235 Anonymous [Signature #28] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21223229?utm_medium=rss Tauranga City Councillors ('staff'; public servants paid by the public purse), must be held to account under ABSOLUTE independent scrutiny (ironically still paid for by the people), for every dollar they spend of rate-payer money... Our Funds, Our Future... If you're not with us, you're against us TCC... It is WAY past time that the decision-makers explained every single cent and had to justify their priorities

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:53:31 UTC 21223229 Josh Cole [Signature #27] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21223064?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:14:16 UTC 21223064 Raewyne Tawa [Signature #26] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21223022?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:47:27 UTC 21223022 Bernice Croeser [Signature #25] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222980?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:22:55 UTC 21222980 Anonymous [Signature #24] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222968?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:18:56 UTC 21222968 Chantelle Duncan [Signature #23] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222953?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:11:53 UTC 21222953 Anne McCormack [Signature #22] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222918?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:49:35 UTC 21222918 Stan Kite [Signature #21] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222915?utm_medium=rss Stop building bicycle tracks that cost rate payers millions and im sure that would ease up funds.
P.S. and spending on stairs to the water in the CBD.

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:45:39 UTC 21222915 Anonymous [Signature #20] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222905?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:40:00 UTC 21222905 Anonymous [Signature #19] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222895?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:28:51 UTC 21222895 Anonymous [Signature #18] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222796?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:33:17 UTC 21222796 Anonymous [Signature #17] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222730?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:05:05 UTC 21222730 Taylor Houghton [Signature #16] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222640?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:13:29 UTC 21222640 Melina Williams [Signature #15] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222637?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:10:48 UTC 21222637 Nyomi Dinsdale [Signature #14] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222632?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:08:51 UTC 21222632 Anonymous [Signature #13] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222600?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:41:34 UTC 21222600 Pauline Milne [Signature #12] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222596?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:36:49 UTC 21222596 Andrew Hollis [Signature #11] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222595?utm_medium=rss No more debt

Lower rates not raise

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:35:29 UTC 21222595 Tony Smith [Signature #10] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222592?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:34:31 UTC 21222592 Anonymous [Signature #9] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222591?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:32:52 UTC 21222591 Awhina Matthews [Signature #8] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222589?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:29:56 UTC 21222589 Anonymous [Signature #7] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222573?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:21:19 UTC 21222573 Malcolm Mooney [Signature #6] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222568?utm_medium=rss My answer is no we don't need to borrow more money

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:19:19 UTC 21222568 Anonymous [Signature #5] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222562?utm_medium=rss Stop borrowing money and spending on your selves

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:14:42 UTC 21222562 Anonymous [Signature #4] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222529?utm_medium=rss No more rates increase

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:46:30 UTC 21222529 Anonymous [Signature #3] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222485?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:17:54 UTC 21222485 Steph Williams [Signature #2] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222472?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:09:56 UTC 21222472 samuel rowden [Signature #1] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21222460?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Mar 2017 03:59:07 UTC 21222460