Toyota a dream come true...
Judging by the heads
it would appear that men, mainly elderly ones turned up at the
opening of Toyota’s new spare parts division. I wonder how many of
those present were rate payers, since the rate payers had parted with
up to 400,000 dollars, to see Toyota’s dream come
true. For reasons best known only to themselves the PNCC kept
secret this act of generosity to the worlds second largest
car manufacturing company which made a mare 20 billion dollar [US]
profit last year.
Integrity means:
Honesty, Soundness, wholeness, so says the dictionary...
Lets
apply those definitions to the council behaviour regarding the gift
to Toyota.
1.
Was it discussed openly?...short answer NO, because it
wasn’t discussed in public, in fact it was only discussed in secret
when the public had been excluded...
2.
Was it done with soundness? No it wasn’t because for
reasons unknown, the council kept secret any knowledge that it had
that Toyota was in fact in such a bad financial state that without
the PNCC grant it couldn’t proceed with its upgrade.
3.
Wholeness? well since the above two reasons failed to
meet even a lowly rated measurement standard factor it would appear
that wholeness was not considered worthy of consideration.
Here
is what the Manawatu Standard had to say on the matter [thus far].
I
have yet to hear back in regard to my request for information on
which Councillors voted for this corporate welfare handout grant: And
it would appear that they need a full twenty days to get their story
fit for public knowledge.
Just as I wrote the above I recieved an email fron Council stating the following:
Just as I wrote the above I recieved an email fron Council stating the following:
Good afternoon Peter
Further to you LGOIMA request please see below voting results
from the decision on Toyota Grant
For:
The Mayor (Grant Smith) and
Councillors Brent Barrett, Susan Baty, Rachel Bowen, Adrian Broad, Gabrielle
Bundy-Cooke, Lew Findlay QSM, Leonie Hapeta, Jim Jefferies, Lorna Johnson,
Duncan McCann, Bruno Petrenas and Tangi Utikere.
Against:
Councillor Karen
Naylor.
Abstained:
Councillor Aleisha
Rutherford.
Regards
Penny
So there they are...and how they voted...so you decide do these people have any ethical standards at all. It would seem that when the Mayor says jump...the only question asked is "How High"...
3 comments:
What we don't know, is what information were Councillors given (or not given)for them to believe they were making an informed decision to support this grant? Was there a concealed threat or 'chill factor' if the proposal wasn't supported? What was the justification for the public to be excluded from this discussion?
There is much more to this issue than has been revealed so far given the support by Councillors, whom we would least expect to approve this grant, to a corporation for which this amount is 'chump change'. This ratepayer money could have been spent to make a meaningful difference to members of our community in hardship.
I received this by email from Alison:
Hi Peter - I'm not sure how writing a comment works. Last week I wrote something commenting on and asking why the Council hasn't yet installed a simple electronic system to track the voting record of individual councillors. The comment seemed to be lodged, but now I don't see it anywhere.
We shouldn't be having to request information about who did what, particularly given that the Stuff format undermines democracy because there is such little clear and comprehensive coverage of what stance each individual councillor takes on every issue. To help us out, with an electronic vote recording system a printout could be run-off and published in the newspaper each week. Then come elections we could have formed a real opinion about the cut of their cloth, rather than having not much else to go on but name recognition and the look of their face...
Cheers
Alison
Good on ferreting out the truth on this matter Peter. Dianne
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