Letters to the editor: Seven deputy chief executives beggars belief

Rotorua Lakes Council chief executive Geoff Williams. Photo / NZME

I am absolutely aghast at the need for seven deputy chief executives in Rotorua Lakes Council (News, June 16).

The council's chief executive states that the move was "organisational realignment", that "social and economic impacts of the pandemic have been widely felt in Rotorua" and that Covid had altered community expectations of council.

They sure have. Businesses have closed. People, who pay the wages of these deputies, have lost their jobs. Beneficiaries and pensioners are struggling to survive on their allowances.

I believe realignment in these fraught times should have involved austerity, job reductions and wage freezes, and an expectation of working smarter.

In my opinion, this "realignment" decision and its associated insensitivity beggars belief.

Paddi Hodgkiss
Rotorua

Laughing-stock territory

Rotorua must surely be heading into laughing-stock territory with the newly announced multi-leader set-up.

Michael Smith
Rotorua

Fed up to the bumper with tailgaters

I see police will be investigating why somebody suddenly braked hard causing others behind to do so as well.

Might I suggest it was because somebody was tailgating them.

I used to stab the brake pedal to try to get them to back off but now I turn on the
hazards.

My wife and I are fed up with SUVs, utes, big trucks and cars tailgating us every time we go away on the main highways - even at 105km/h.

I frequently see vehicles 2m behind another. It seems that a large number of people don't consider reaction time.

Drivers need to count, one thousand and one, one thousand and two on dry roads and up to one thousand three or more on wet roads.

We let tailgaters pass by pulling over at the first opportunity.

Garth Bagnall
Mount Maunganui

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