“It's a bit on the nose for them to send two staff members and the mayor for an all expenses paid trip to French Polynesia for a twin city cultural agreement. They just put up rates claiming they have no budgets etc, yet they find money for this nonsense, and send staff from the Maori Outcomes department. Council has many cultures working for it, yet they decided to only send and highlight the Maori Outcomes staff. But either way, no council staff or member should be being sent on a fancy holiday on ratepayer money when they just put rates up, and many rate payers can't afford this increase, let alone a holiday.”