A councillor's call to use the delay in the City Focus revamp for more public consultation on the space has been shot down.
An update on the state of the half-finished City Focus space was given to councillors at today's Rotorua Lakes Council Operations and Monitoring Committee meeting.
Also revealed at the meeting was the state of the council's finances - which will see it reduce debt in a year it had planned to borrow $7 million.
The council's chief financial officer Thomas Colle revealed the plan to pay off between $2-3 million of debt later this month, taking the council's debt level to between $164-165 million.
He said cash reserves would increase by $3-4 million for capital projects starting in the new financial year (from July 1).