City Council Approves 11.4 Million Baht For 2 More Beach Swimming Zones

[Rimmer]

City council approves 11.4 million baht for 2 more beach swimming zones

PATTAYA:--Pattaya plans to spend 11.4 million baht to cordon off two more swimming areas on Naklua and Wong Amat beaches.

The Pattaya City Council May 29 approved Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome’s budget request to purchase the orange buoys, ropes, anchors and materials for lifeguard stations. The additional swimming zones were deemed urgent following the April 21 speedboat collision that injured 18 South Korean tourists and a May 29 accident in which a Thai tour guide as struck by a boat propeller while swimming in Najomtien.

Full story:http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/city-council-approves-11-4-million-baht-for-2-more-beach-swimming-zones-26815

-- Pattaya Mail 2013-06-07

[fakename]

Why not do it the other way, have special zones for the boats and jet ski's. There are umbrellas and beach chairs up and down the beach, people want to go to the water in front of their chair, not a hundred meters down the beach. You cannot watch your valuables when they are down the beach, or watch your children, if they are not in front of you.

At Jomtien beach, most of the buoys are broke, and there has been some attempt to repair them. Why not get better buoys? What kind of materials do the lifeguard stations need? I have never seen a lifeguard setting in one, they were a waste of money, just like the traffic lights for the pedestrian crossings.

[Potosi]

Is see. The tourist compensation fund was valued at 4 million Baht before it went bankrupt, but the mayor can pay 11.4 million Baht for two lengths of rope, and a few dozend plastic floaters. .4 million in actual costs, and 11 in kickbacks.

[yoslim]

11 million for a few buoys and a lifeguard tower which only use is for bums to sit and get drunk on it

[dazk]

11.4 m baht to cordon of two areas, seriously what the f!!k

[changnaam]

Move that into other currencies...... Over gbp 200k for rope, buoys and a couple of steel structures for a lifeguard. How can these people justify turning up for work. In the uk I could buy 10 new mercs or beemers for what mr mayor can build a couple of swimming zones. In Thailand I could probably build a small town for thb11,000,000

Unbelievable Thailand

Until the tax payers question this nothing will ever change.

[cup-O-coffee]

And these big wigs managed to say to the world that they needed in excess of fourteen million bahts to purchase some rope, concrete blocks with re-bar hoops and plastic balls without cracking the slightest grin?

I am beggared once again.

[gmac]

11 million for a few buoys and a lifeguard tower which only use is for bums to sit and get drunk on it

I think most of the money is for the "boys" not the "buoys"!

[kevkev1888]

So Maths is not my strong point, but. 2 areas 80M by 100M, means 520M of rope and a buoy every meter 520 buoys.

Thats 22,000B or nearly £500 per meter/plastic buoy

[steelepulse]

So Maths is not my strong point, but. 2 areas 80M by 100M, means 520M of rope and a buoy every meter 520 buoys.

Thats 22,000B or nearly £500 per meter/plastic buoy

Quite a bargain considering how many mouths are in the trough! 5% for materials and labour, 95% for uniforms and political positions.

[Ohio]

_{Gotta Love the Maths in Pattaya.....}

_{1 for the Buoy 1,000 for the Boys}

_{Nothing changes.}