Service centres closed Tuesday 30 May
Next week our three service centres will be closed for the day on Tuesday 30 May to allow our Customer Service and Engagement team to attend a full-day course on front counter safety.
This includes the front counter desks inside the Ōtaki and Waikanae Libraries and the front desk of our Civic Centre building. The front doors will remain open at Civic so meetings can still go ahead. Our call centre will be operating as normal - www.kapiticoast.govt.nz...
As the rise in reports of aggressive interactions with customers continues, this is just one important part of our organisation’s commitment to the health, safety and wellbeing of our staff by equipping our people with the tools and skills to do their jobs safely.
Driven On The Akatarawa Rd Lately?
If so, its good to know you are still alive and reading this.
We have a function to go to over Christmas up that way and having heard a few hairy stories about the road, I went up there on Thursday to check it out. The road's ok, narrow and winding, but not much worse than a Wellington hill suburb. What was pretty scary was the behavior of other drivers. Three vehicles heading the other way at speed would have crashed into me if I hadn't been pulled off the road. I had pulled in to check the address when a truck came flying past, taking up all of the narrow road at speed. There is no way the driver would have been able to stop had they come around the corner immediately in front of me. The other two drivers came hurtling past as I had turned in to turn around and come back down the hill. They were also driving at speed and taking up most of the road. Coming back down I passed another car coming up and estimate that the safe speed to pass another car was about 30-35 kms.p.h. So, now we're thinking, do we go to the function or not.? Feels a bit like we're taking our life in our hands going up there. Drivers appear to be overconfident, and they are courting serious injury.
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