Well done on your report (April 3) on the special Long Term Plan meeting that the council convened to consider the velodrome issue, which in giving the public some clarity of the issues, seemed to raise many more on the process to date.
Sadly, in at last putting three options
to the ratepayers, our council seem to have overlooked, even sidelined a small team of judicious and totally competent fellow ratepayers, the Regional Velodrome Development Trust (RVDT), who have led the charge for well over a decade. Why? Don't they trust them? ...
Of the three options, which need to be radically changed by our submissions, demolition would be an absolute abrogation of not just this council's but also previous councils' responsibilities in terms of basic maintenance of a core sporting asset.
The second option of some cheap metal roof structure is a joke, scorned upon by anyone with any serious competitive cycling knowledge of such facilities.
And the third option is of an even more expensive membrane roof cover than that proposed by RVDT. Why, again, one must ask? ... Your report, thankfully, may give us some clues. [Abridged]
TERRY COXON
Whanganui
