Tauranga City Council has axed the contracted role of safe city co-ordinator and taken it in-house - and the man who has done the job for nearly a decade says he is shocked and disappointed.
Mike Mills has been Tauranga Moana Safe City co-ordinator since June 2006 but he was told this month his contract with the city would end and the organisation's steering committee dismantled.
The committee was made up of representatives from stakeholders such as ACC, fire brigade, police, Western Bay Of Plenty District Council, Acorn Foundation, the regional council, district health board, city council, and Ministry of Justice.
Tauranga Moana Safe City has helped deliver programmes such as No One Likes a Bully, White Ribbon Campaign and the Blow the Whistle on Violence campaign. Mr Mills told the Bay of Plenty Times he was disappointed after doing successful work for nine years.
His biggest concern was for the programmes the steering committee had established and the importance of keeping them going under new management.