Reader Isabel Ashmore wrote to the Bay of Plenty Times about the council's secret decision to spend $1.3 million on upgrading a computer system.
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Why did the decision to spend $1.3 million on upgrading the computer system have to be made urgently and in secret by the bulk of the previous council?
What's more, the decision involving ratepayers' funds did not go through the normal public budget process.
Surely to have to upgrade a major company's computer system is not a last-minute thing?