Things councils don’t do

You can’t always blame it on the Council.

Submissions to the Waitakere City Council’s 2004/05 Annual Plan sometimes ask for a little more than even this progressive Council can deliver.

Waitakere can’t enlarge the roller coaster at Rainbow’s End for several reasons. One is that Rainbow’s end is operated by a business, not a Council and in any event, it’s at Manukau City.

Furthermore, as the Council doesn’t determine what kind of legitimate businesses people should establish, it has no control over many butcher’s shops there are in the city, that sell horsemeat for human consumption – even though horsemeat is apparently “on the menu in 5-Star hotels in Paris (France)”.

A request for “more windows on the train because it’s stuffy inside” will be referred to Connex which runs the trains.

For those who want to make more suggestions, submissions on Waitakere’s annual plan close at 5pm on May 13.