Local Government out of control

I went to an event that Tataki put on last year.

They had a bunch of Olympians and one of the skool sports team I coach got invited along to it.

All the parents said - who is tataki, every single one of them.

Must have been 500 people at it, massive amount of food and about 7 current olympians speaking.

Kids got to meet and talk to which ever of them they wanted to which was quite cool for them.

All paid for by the trusty ratepayer I assumed.  No doubt took up several years of my contribution.

Even from the MSM coverage, the sale of that functioning, tenanted, profitable, publicly owned marine precinct defies all logic.
Especially when the Council now states it needs to go and spend money to relocate the current tenants.

The only logical explanation is corruption, basically. Interests related to the developer making large donations to whoever, and ta-da, you can buy something that wasn't actually publicly for sale. What do they call it? Unsolicited purchase offer.

Not sure if this one is related, on the face of it reads as a money laundering scheme for your mates.
Buy our property at a discount, build a building on it and we will pay you exorbitant rental to cover the build cost and purchase price straight away, then keep paying you moonbeams for years? -same commissioners doing the deal. 

edit, sort of double up, you posted while I was still writing

I need to be careful with what I say on this in a public forum, but I had some very peculiar goings on at TCC.
I was brought in to provide specialist technical knowledge on a Council tender appraisal. The council officer involved with that was utterly fixated on awarding the contract to one of the tenderers without any clear basis.
There was no due process, internal grading of technical or non-price parameters, and they weren't the cheapest. Myself and another third party technical specialist brought in to assist with the tender adjudication quickly reached a consensus on the best value for money tenderer for the council, which was clearly justifiable, which was at odds with the Council officer, accept he didn't have any basis for his view. It was an extraordinarily uncomfortable position to find myself in, effectively being bullied or cajoled into changing a professional opinion based on zero facts at all. Didn't change it though.

There was some other odd things there as well. Instead of getting a taxi to or from the airport, the council office would pick me up and drop me off, accept that he was being driven around by, what shall we say, a 'Council supplier', working for and in a company car belonging to a large multinational that had a contract with TCC.

And then mysteriously, not long after all that, the aforementioned Council Officer was suddenly no-longer working for the council. All top secret on what happened. All I could ascertain was that he hadn't changed jobs or councils...

On corruption, if it walks like a duck, quakes like a duck and shits like a duck, then it is probably...

Oh yeah, and the Council CEO over that time, I understand he was of one of those religious sects that wont use electronics, computers, email, mobile phones etc. I forget the name. On asking how he ever got anything done, apparently he would have a PA or two (it is normal for a CEO to have a PA) but, they would have to print all his emails, he would read them off the paper, then he would dictate a response to the PA, she would have to go type it into the computer and reply to the email. Apparently it was a complete shit-show and it was good going if a PA lasted more than 2 weeks. Not sure what the story was with phones and phone calls. I found all that out because his office was the only meeting room available one day so we had to use it. I just couldn't understand why there was zero IT in it. Normally a meeting room will have video conferencing equipment, a projector or large TV (which is what we needed so we could all work off and discuss the same documents), some sort of digital white board, or at the very least, at a budget operation, a speaker phone. This CEO's office was completely bare.
Bit bemused how someone that is an utter techno-phobe can get a position like that, and had substantial cost to ratepayers needing a typing pool to dictate emails to, but perhaps I just don't understand how to work the DEI angle?