killed in a slip<\/a> at the council-owned Mount Maunganui Beachside Holiday Park in January 22.<\/p>\nDavison found the landslide risk was known by the council and the organisation missed opportunities over the span of 27 years to take actions that could have prevented the deaths.<\/p>\n
He attributed this to systemic failures and found no individual accountable for the tragedy. Davison made 10 recommendations to the council for systemic change.<\/p>\n
In a meeting outlining the report and its recommendations, Grenfell said Davison\u2019s findings were clear, the organisation had accepted them “without qualification” and it was committed to implementing every recommendation.<\/p>\n
The following day, Grenfell told TVNZ’s Breakfast he was “determined and motivated to address the issues of this organisation and implement these recommendations”.<\/p>\n
“I’m accountable for the performance of the organisation. My focus, and task, and my commitment is to implement these recommendations and drive the change that this organisation needs to address these issues.<\/p>\n
“Whilst this has been described as a systemic failure, it’s not epidemic across the organisation. We need to be laser-focused. We failed to manage the risks appropriately in relation to the campground. We need to address that.”<\/p>\n
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Marty Grenfell (left), and Mah\u00e9 Drysdale at the review. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Drysdale said the council would appoint an interim chief executive, with a recruitment process for a permanent replacement beginning as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
“There is a lot of work to be done, and we will be looking for a leader with the experience and expertise to help us drive significant change within the organisation as we appropriately respond to the Davison review and multiple other inquiries and investigations currently underway,” he said.<\/p>\n
“My councillors and I will continue to demand of the interim CEO and senior leadership team that we see tangible, verifiable evidence of an overhaul of systems and processes through the Organisational Improvement Programme currently in progress.”<\/p>\n
‘Positive step forward’<\/p>\n
Tauranga MP Sam Uffindell said Grenfell’s resignation was a “positive step forward” for the city.<\/p>\n
“This outcome reflects the strong wishes, as expressed to me, by our community,” Uffindell said this evening on social media.<\/p>\n
“My best wishes to the mayor, elected members and staff at TCC as we work together to improve governance, accountability and the well-being of our region.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tauranga City Council chief executive Marty Grenfell has today resigned from his role following the release of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,135,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-615342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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