A new audit finds that the New Castle County Council staff is poorly managed.
In addition, it found that some employees engaged in questionable practices in accounting for hours worked and compensatory time.
Auditor Anthony Scannell wrote that some of the comments are symptomatic of an overall lack of respect for the County rules as well as lack of supervision and accountability.
Disagreement with the report came from council member Janet Kilpatrick, who said that the picture the auditor laid out was not accurate.
She said the audit treated the County Council as if it were a private company.
The outside auditor was hired to avoid a conflict of interest because the county auditor Bob Wasserbach is a council employee.