A reader questions the cost to refurbish the Memorial Park swimming pool. Photo / NZME
A reader questions the cost to refurbish the Memorial Park swimming pool. Photo / NZME
I think the costs of the refurbishment to the swimming pool at Memorial Park must be queried by ratepayers.
The council intends on spending $54 million (including inflation) for this, but only last week in Christchurch they opened a brand-new swimming complex at Linwood that cost only $22 million.
Thisis $32 million cheaper than the Memorial Park swimming pool refurbishment. Unless the council intends to gold-plate the pool, I think serious questions must be asked about this huge discrepancy in costs.
Perhaps it would be cheaper to demolish the present swimming pool and replace it all with a brand-new complex instead?
Friday marked our second week on council refuse collection.
I came home to find a food scrap bin belonging to a neighbour had been on the entrance to our drive after collection, and ours in the gutter along with a banana skin on the road from our food scrap bin.
I am not prepared to pick up food scraps from the road or path again.
A reader asks: Who will tidy up the spillages from the new kerbside waste collection service? Photo / Supplied
This was, in my view, a complete lack of service.
We have worked hard to keep all our food scraps in brown-paper bags and freeze until collection day, and sort out all the numerous bins and what can and can't go into them, so we feel we are doing most of the work for the council.
They just have to collect and already charge enough in our rates for this.
It may seem like a small trivial thing, but multiply this every rubbish day in the summer and who will pick up the spills? It will become very unhygienic.
