Roosting chorus: Powell resigns
Tauranga Mayor resigns and calls on Minister to sack dysfunctional council and appoint a commissioner; Govt agrees to calls for emergency benefits for stranded migrant workers and students
TLDR: Tauranga City Council Mayor Tenby Powell resigned this afternoon after months of dysfunction and infighting among councillors. Tauranga is the country’s fastest growing city and in dire need of more than $2b of infrastructure, but councillors refuse to allow the debt and rates increase needed to fund it.
The ructions are symptomatic of the pressure…
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