2009 Awards Webinar Series - "Readers' Choice"
We are planning a webinar series featuring a number of selected entries form the 2009 awards. These are likely to be run during July and August 2010. You can vote for the entires that you would like to see included in the webinar series. We are running an online readers' survey to find out which entries people would like to hear more about. Click here to take survey.
Celebrating new ideas
2009 New Zealand Post Group Local Government Excellence Awards
Council Community Relationships Category - Part 1
Category and Supreme Award Winner
Porirua City Council
Villages Planning Programme
“The Village Planning Programme is a groundbreaking partnership between Porirua City Council and its communities. It puts communities in charge of developing a vision for their neighbourhoods and then partnering with Council to make it happen. This vision is brought together through community consultation and developed into Village Plans, which lay out the community's goals and aspirations for the future of their neighbourhood. The Village Planning Programme has revolutionised the way Council works alongside its communities. The response from the community has been overwhelmingly positive. It is being reflected in a noticeable increase in community pride and a deeper relationship between Council and its communities.”
Category Commendation
Waitakere City Council
Massey Matters: Making Massey an even better place to live.
“Massey Matters (http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/ourpar/masseycommunity.asp) began in 2006 as a ten year project with long term resourcing from Waitakere City Council (Council) to improve quality of life in Massey, a large suburb of around 25,000 residents in Waitakere City. Massey Matters is about local residents, community groups and businesses joining together with Council and government agencies to make Massey an even better place to live. The broad aim of the project is for the council to work alongside the local community and other partners to develop a programme for long term, community driven, sustainable neighbourhood renewal and development in the Massey area.. “
Other Entries
Hutt City Council
Connecting with communities through conversations – Vision CBD 2030 Project
“Hutt City Council’s vision is “A better City Everyday”. Our focus is to work as a team with our communities and partners, to create a better city and a stronger community. Effective leadership by Hutt City Council (HCC) is essential for this to occur. We aim to achieve our vision through understanding our communities’ values, building strong partnerships and delivering fresh solutions. Developing a vision for the Hutt Central Business District (CBD) was a key project for HCC - success was vital. This prompted us to take up the challenge of trying approaches to engagement which were different to those we had used in the past. As a result, the Council decided to try an engagement approach that focused on involving the community early on in the process and developing the vision from the “ground up”. “
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Download the awards entry >>>>
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Download additional information
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Appendix – Draft Vision CBD 2030 document >>>>
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For further information about the entry contact:
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Yasmin Lee, Senior Strategic Advisor, Strategic Development, Hutt City Council, DDI +64 4 570 6955
Hutt City Council
Leisure Active Fitness Suite
“To provide access to a fitness facility that is local and affordable to improve fitness and provide health benefits to the local community. The Leisure Active Fitness Suite is Hutt City's first multi purpose fitness facility. Based at Naenae Pool, it is the only Lower Hutt facility to incorporate all the benefits of a modern day fitness suite with the use of a swimming pool.”
Manukau City Council
Kawakawa Bay Landslip Response
“A major landslip closed the main road into Kawakawa Bay and forced the evacuation of six homes. With a community of 1500 residents affected, a Manukau City Council team swung into action to deal with the landslip, keep the community informed and provide support for them. The council response drew praise from the community and councilors. “
Dunedin City Council
www.dunedin.govt.nz increasing the accessibility of information to the community
“The Dunedin City Council has redeveloped its website, www.dunedin.govt.nz to increase the accessibility of information to the community.”
Rodney District Council
Citizen e-engagement
“Building on initial success in this area through the establishment of a now 2,000-member Facebook group by a Councilor, and by Rodney Library’s use of social media in its work (Facebook, Flickr and Blog) the vision is to:
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Build greater public understanding of and confidence in council through improved information sharing, transparency and responsiveness.
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To achieve greater participation levels with the Rodney community
so that council decisions and actions will match short and long-term community needs and objectives. . “
Hurunui District Council
Hurunui Youth Programme
“The Hurunui Youth Programme (HYP) is a flexible, mobile, youth centred development programme with activity sessions (learning and development as well as entertainment) for 12 –18 year-olds throughout Hurunui district. Hurunui youth are involved in the programme at planning, implementation, governance and evaluation levels. It is an on-going programme which will continue to evolve with time and experience.”
Horowhenua District Council
Life to the Max Horowhenua (LTTM)
“It is a collaborative initiative developed between the Regional Interagency Network (RIN) and Horowhenua District Council. RIN is a group of central government Regional/District Mangers, Mayors, senior local government staff and Iwi representatives who meet quarterly. Their aim is to:
'Lead the strategic development of a “Whole of Government” approach to economic and social development, thereby enhancing the well-being of the Manawatu, Tararua, and Horowhenua and Palmerston North communities'.
Multi agency funded and locally led by His Worship the Mayor of Horowhenua District Council, a very skilled project board, a committed project manager and a range of professional staff, the project is innovative, flexible all encompassing to enable at risk youth to be reintegrated into the Horowhenua community and live an ordinary life..”
Tasman District Council
Tasman draft Ten Year Plan 17 Settlements Document
“Tasman District Council is one of the largest territorial authorities in New Zealand covering 9,786 square kilometres. We have regularly been told that the Ten Year Plan (our Long Term Council Community Plan [LTCCP]) and Annual Plan do not provide information in a format that is easily accessible to people who are particularly interested in knowing what is happening in their settlement or ward. Therefore, people find it hard to engage in our planning processes at a meaningful level. This year, when preparing the Ten Year Plan, we took up the challenge of addressing this problem.
To make it easier for people to find out what was happening in their settlement and ward Council prepared the “17 Settlements” document. This document outlines the key information contained in the Ten Year Plan by ward and then by settlement. We also prepared a document for each ward, containing information about the relevant settlements for that ward. . “
Environment Waikato: Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Energy Strategy
“Energy is essential to all our lives. Internationally we are moving towards an era of higher energy costs and greater demands for energy supply - at the same time climate change is creating the conditions for a carbon constrained world.
To address these challenges, the New Zealand Government
developed policy in the form of the New Zealand Energy Strategy (NZES) and the New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (NZEECS). The underlying reason for developing a Waikato Regional Energy Strategy is to pick up key elements from the national strategies, integrate them within the needs of the regional economy, and find ways of making them work in a practical way for the region. “
To view entries by category:
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Council-Community Relationships Part 1 >>>>;
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Council-Community Relationships Part 2 >>>>;
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Building Organisational Capability >>>>;
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Improved Local Regulation >>>>;
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Joined Up Local Government >>>>.
2009 Awards Webinar Series - "Readers' Choice"
We are planning a webinar series featuring a number of selected entries form the 2009 awards. These are likely to be run during July and August 2010. You can vote for the entires that you would like to see included in the webinar series. We are running an online readers' survey to find out which entries people would like to hear more about. Click here to take survey.
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