Category: Council Document Summaries

4 Lessons From 1029 Pages Of Tauranga City Council Strategy

I love to read.

Lucky for me because early on in my research for becoming a Tauranga City Councillor I was told that councillors do a lot of reading.

So I started with the Long Term Plan, and next I took on 16 Tauranga City Council documents I found on the strategies page of the TCC website.

  • I stitched them together in a single pdf that was 1029 pages long
  • It took me 6 weeks to read it from cover to cover
  • It took me another 4 weeks to write my summaries
  • I got up at 5.15am every morning (including Saturdays and Sundays) and read for a 60 – 90 minutes before my 3 sons woke up
  • I loved it!
  • The documents were all well written, easy to read, good layout, lots of photos and diagrams and maps, lots of headings and bullet points

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8 Things I Learned From The Tauranga City Council Long Term Plan 2015 – 2025

I just finished reading the Tauranga City Council Long Term Plan 2015 – 2025.

I absolutely loved it!

There is no sarcasm there, I enjoyed every page! Here are 4 reasons I enjoyed it so much:

  1. I felt informed. I loved learning some history, about the decision making process in the present, and the way the document allowed me to peak at the future.
  2. I came to appreciate all the effort, resources, considering and money that goes into every Tauranga City Council activity. It made me proud to be a citizen. It inspired me to seriously consider running for council
  3. It was beautifully laid out and presented. Colour, bullet points, headings, structure, tables, graphs. It was a pleasure to absorb
  4. I quite enjoyed that smug feeling that I’m one of only a handful of people that have read it from cover to cover

Here are the 8 things I learned from the Long Term Plan. Continue reading “8 Things I Learned From The Tauranga City Council Long Term Plan 2015 – 2025”