Tauranga city councillors have been promised a report that will deliver a "sensible way forward" for the city's controversial tsunami warning system.
The assurance was given by city services manager Ian McDonald to a meeting of the city council yesterday.
It followed Councillor Murray Guy expressing frustration that councillors hadnot been kept in the loop on issues identified by the design and tendering work carried out by Meerkat Alert Systems.
He said last week that the council had failed to manage the process effectively and had been made to look stupid again.
Meerkat was selected as the preferred tenderer last year, with a plan to install about 60 small electronic sirens alarms.
But old-fashioned mechanical air-raid sirens have now re-entered contention after "significant risks" were identified following the completion of the design and tendering work by Meerkat.
Mr McDonald said resource consent notification issues had been raised.
The other main issue was that an acoustic analysis had indicated that Meerkat's proposal needed further work, with potential cost implications.
Cr Guy complained that he had only learned by email from the Mayor Stuart Crosby last Thursday night that the consenting process had raised a number of hurdles - after Mr Crosby had spoken to a Bay of Plenty Times reporter that the number of electronic sirens needed to cover the 20km coastline would cost too much.
