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Home > NZ Post Local Government Excellence Awards > New Zealand Post Management Excellence Awards - Entries 2004 to 2009 > 2004

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Other Entries in Community Relationships Category

Upgrading of the Ashburton Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Systems

“Many Councils throughout New Zealand are faced with the need to upgrade wastewater treatment systems. This can be a daunting task for smaller communities. Wastewater proposals have inherent difficulties in achieving community consensus due to, the range of options, high cost implications, competing environmental issues and host areas perceptions of adverse effects.  The Ashburton District Council set about resolving these issues by empowering the community in the decision making process.  This process has resulted in a clear preference for land disposal, a preferred site being identified and voluntarily acquired and the necessary resource consents being lodged, notified and granted.” 

View the project entry - Project - CR - Ashburton DC - Wastewater Treatment and Disposal System.pdf

For further information about this project contact robertr@adc.govt.nz

Get Involved

“This is the second year that the Auckland Regional Council (ARC) is sending rates directly to regional ratepayers. The 2003 rating experience highlighted an overall lack of awareness and understanding by ratepayers of the ARC planning process as well as misconceptions about regional rating in general and the policies the ARC had adopted.  The “Get Involved” campaign, running along-side the formal Long Term Council Community Plan submission process, was an initiative that aimed to increase public participation in Local Government decision-making, as well as to raise the overall awareness of the ways that the public has the ability to influence decisions that impact them.” 

View the project entry - Project - CR - Auckland RC - Get Involved.pdf 

For further information about this project contact tracy.moyes@arc.govt.nz

Dunedin City Safety Project

“Dunedin’s City Safety Strategy is a joint project carried out by the Dunedin City Council and the Dunedin Police.  Direction comes from a high level Leaders Forum involving the Mayor and Chief Executive of the Council, and the Police District Commander and Area Controller.  The Crime Prevention Unit of the Ministry of Justice is also involved through the provision of funding and advice, and is represented on the Leaders Forum.”

View the project entry - Project - CR - Dunedin CC - Safety Project.pdf

For further information about this project contact nfamilto@dcc.govt.nz

 Hastings District Council Puzzle Communications Strategy and Puzza Mascot

“If Council was to work with its community in the way it stated, then it needed a method to draw the community into its processes so that they could consistently recognise that it was council seeking their input - that this was the community’s process.  In conjunction with local communication agency Outloud Ltd, Hastings District Council developed a communications strategy based around the puzzle concept.  The concept uses puzzle imagery, a puzzle character and puzzle mascot (who became known to local children as Puzza).”

View the project entry - Project - CR - Hastings DC - Puzzle Communication.pdf

For further information about this project contact stephenb@hdc.govt.nz

Proactive Partnership with Business

“A much better relationship between Council and business was a priority in Hutt City’s economic development strategy. The city’s economy had consistently performed below the national average. A strong, vibrant local economy relied on building effective and genuine partnerships, where previously there were few.”

View the project entry - Project - CR - Hutt CC - Proactive Partnership with Business.pdf

For further information about this project contact gary.craig@huttcity.govt.nz

Solid Waste Disposal: Silverstream Landfill

"The disposal of solid waste is an essential service which all communities need, but usually do not want in their neighbourhood.  Hutt City Council (HCC) has operated a landfill at its Silverstream site since 1973.  The current Silverstream Landfill is due to reach its capacity in 2007 when it would effectively be closed.  To continue to provide a solid waste disposal service to the residents of the Hutt Valley, HCC investigated building a new landfill, located on the same site, but down valley from the existing operating area."

View the project entry - Project - CR - Hutt CC - Solid Waste Disposal.pdf

For further information about this project contact bruce.sherlock@huttcity.govt.nz

Sustainable Auckland Cities Programme

“Partnering local and central government resources and initiatives is a key step to more effective community partnerships. It was vital that the first phase of the Auckland Sustainable Cities Programme achieved this outcome, within its first 12 months. The Auckland Sustainable Cities Programme was initiated in 2003 in response to the Government’s Sustainable Development for New Zealand - Programme of Action. Within the Government’s programme there are four key initiatives of which ‘Sustainable Cities’ is one. The initiative has two stated outcomes:    

  • Cities as centres of innovation and economic growth, and
  • Liveable cities that support social well-being, quality of life and cultural identities.”

View the project entry - Project - CR - Manukau CC - Auckland Sustainable.pdf

For further information about this project contact cdale@manukau.govt.nz

 Strategy Development and Implementation: Making Connections – A Strategy for Manukau’s Parks 2002-2010

“Since its formation in 1966, Manukau City Council has acquired an extensive network of parks.  Although Council remained highly responsive to the demands of a growing population in a rapidly developing and diverse city, the parks network largely evolved without a strategic plan in place.  With the city now reaching the level of maturity defined in Tomorrow’s Manukau, it was appropriate that the parks network was subject to strategic consideration. Making Connections is the strategic plan for Manukau City Council’s parks for the next 10 years and beyond.  The purpose of the plan is to provide a clear direction for the future provision and development of the parks network.”

View the project entry - Project - CR - Manukau CC - Strategy Development and Implementation.pdf

For further information about this project contact cdale@manukau.govt.nz

Positive Ageing

“In 2003, New Plymouth District Council became the first local authority in New Zealand to commit formally to the principles of the Government’s Positive Ageing Strategy. In 2004, we developed a policy that identifies and responds to the needs of our older people, with a vision of ensuring that ‘within New Plymouth District, older people will be active participants in improving their quality of life and will experience and enjoy positive ageing’. The Positive Ageing New Plymouth project has been developed in partnership with local older people through an innovative structure that enables older people to be active participants in developing solutions and projects to meet their needs.”

View the project entry - Project - CR - New Plymouth District Council - Positive Ageing.pdf

For further information about this project contact cayleys@npdc.govt.nz 

Options 2020 

“In 2001 the Queenstown Lakes District was a community under immense pressure, intrinsically linked to growth. The Council recognised the urgent need to engage the community and undertook workshops throughout the district, taking a workshop road show of localised and global issues to each of our smaller communities over a period of two years. The workshops were completed this year with over 1300 members of our community taking part. The workshops told us the outcomes desired by our community but the Council recognised that was only the first step. We needed to decide how we would address these goals and bed that information into our future strategic planning, and so it could dovetail neatly into our first Council Community Plan, adopted in June.”

View the project entry - Project - CR - Queenstown Lakes DC - Options 2020.pdf

For further information about this project contact vicki@qldc.govt.nz

Vision Rodney

“Given the political upheaval in the recent history (2000-2001) of the district, where Rodney District had a democracy and executive breakdown, a lack of communication and trust between the Council and its communities occurred.The need for everyone to unite and rally around a shared future was clearly evident.  That shared future is Vision Rodney - A strategy for the district's future.  Vision Rodney has achieved the first step in developing a closer relationship between the Council and the community it serves.”

View the project entry - Project - CR - Rodney DC - Vision Rodney.pdf

For further information about this project contact jvictor@rodney.govt.nz

  "SmartGrowth" - Building Blocks to a Better Future in the western Bay of Plenty

“SmartGrowth is about developing a strategy for managing growth in the western Bay of Plenty sub-region over the next 20 to 50 years.  It was established in 2001 as a partnership between Environment Bay of Plenty, Tauranga District Council, Western Bay of Plenty District Council, Tangata Whenua and community organizations.  The initiative came about as the result of mounting concern in the community about the impact of rapid population growth in the western Bay of Plenty sub-region and the inability of the myriad of agencies involved to separately manage that growth.”

View the project entry - Project - CR - Western Bay Area - SmartGrowth.pdf

and

Project - CR - Western Bay Area - SmartGrowth - Appendix.ppt

For further information about this project contact bruce.fraser@envbop.govt.nz

 Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre

“The innovative concept of bringing together a theatre, gallery and community recreation hall has been the result of Council working with the community to identify the best way to meet and develop local aspirations. It has brought the arts into a non-threatening everyday context, and improved accessibility to arts and recreation opportunities for all.”

View the project entry - Project - CR - Upper Hutt CC - Expressions.pdf

For further information about this project contact jenny.bentley@uhcc.govt.nz

 Drive By Art

“Drive By Art was established in 2003 as a unique way to combine community and public art. Fitting nicely into the Wellington City Council's new vision for creativity and innovation, the programme has become a prolific way to establish connections with educators and schools, creative people, organisations and institutions. It has become a way to share their art with the thousands of residents and visitors who drive by, walk by and populate the city streets.”

View the project entry - Project - CR - Wellington CC - Drive by Art. pdf.pdf

For further information about this project contact eric.holowacz@wcc.govt.nz

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