Maybe WCC should focus on doing the basics right?

Radio NZ reports:

Eight months before the Loafers Lodge fire, the building regulator told Wellington City Council it was doing six-to-10 times too few safety checks on buildings, and to do more.

The regulator MBIE told it that riskier buildings, such as boarding houses, were even more in need of the better on-site checks.

Overall, the council was running at under 4 percent of buildings audited a year, when it should be at 20-33 percent.

“This number is well below what we would expect for an effective auditing regime,” MBIE said last September in a 2022 assessment it gave the council.

It also was doing too little enforcement when it found faults, the ministry found.

The council released the MBIE assessment on Tuesday in response to RNZ questions for over a week.

At the same time, it admitted last auditing Loafers in 2018 – when it found blockages at fire exits and smokestop doors wedged open, and a non-compliant card-access system – and 2012.

Think if the Council focused more on core functions such as building safety, water infrastructure and the like and less on recognising Palestine and painting rainbow crossings!