Who’s responsible?

Re the article (Weekend Herald, September 3) about the woman dying in her car in Remuera. I counted in the article the following council staff: the CEO; Customer Services Representatives; compliance team leader; a second team leader, general manager licensing and regulatory compliance, director of regulatory services, customer and community services director and an untold number of “senior managers”.

Not one of these employees owned up to owning the problem, none of them took any action before the woman’s death, and all of them, no doubt, are on very good salary remuneration paid in the main by long-suffering ratepayers.

Is it not time the CEO acknowledged there is a culture permeating council employees of not taking responsibility for their actions or lack thereof, and does this not make the organisation totally dysfunctional? Nick Fraser, Whangapara¯oa.