Why I'm standing...

My immediate priority is pausing implementation of the Commission's 2024-2034 Long-term Plan.

Why...?

The plan is an unmitigated disaster.

It fails to prioritise the essential infrastructure required to address the city's biggest problems - especially transport.

Instead, it squanders hundreds of millions of dollars on over-priced, over-the-top in scale and specification, 'nice-to-haves'. 

As a result, if this plan proceeds, by 2034, Tauranga will have the highest rated and most indebted ratepayers of any major NZ city - yet the city will not have addressed its biggest problems.

Tauranga needs a new plan - one that delivers an attractive, affordable, and economically and environmentally sustainable, city.