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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2009 New Zealand Post Group Local Government Excellence Awards
Council Community Relationships Category - Part 2
North Shore City Council
In2it - Youth Destinations Project
“The Youth Destinations Project - in2it - was the result of a desire to understand and specifically address the active community needs of young people, to provide a plan to deliver this, set within the context of North Shore City Council’s Sport and Recreation Framework. The Youth Destinations Project is a collaborative multi agency approach to investing in the youth of North Shore. Throughout the development of the Youth Destinations Project, a key principle has been partnership within the area of Community Development. Community Liaison’s brought together a team of key stakeholders from central and local government, community, business, youth and education sectors. “
Horowhenua District Council
Rural Stakeholder Group Consultation on Proposed District Plan Change 20
“Plan Change 20 for rural subdivision was a big issue, with the rural subdivision rules remaining unchanged since 1999. It was decided that the development community together with some other interest groups would be given the opportunity to work closely with Council officers in a collaborative approach to defining the plan change. A “Rural Stakeholder” group was formed and met regularly from early 2008 until the plan change was publicly notified in January 2009. This group had significant input to drafting the notified plan changes and were party to discussions starting from the identification of the issues (why the changes were needed) right through to the wording and grammar of the objectives, policies, rules and design guidelines for managing future subdivisions.”
Upper Hutt City Council
Tell us how it is…..Engaging with Upper Hutt’s Young People
“The need to find out more about our local young people first arose when we realised that, other than census data and the fact that we had four colleges (two public co-eds and two private boys schools), we did not know what our young people really thought. Negative perceptions about youth gangs, drinking, drugs, truancy and unemployment abounded, and as a Council we had nothing to draw on to better define and address the actual issues our teens were facing. Given that we had negligible relationships with the schools, with youth service providers and next to no knowledge about strengths-based practice, few resources (either human or financial) and no ideas about where to direct what resources we did have – we made a crucial decision..”
Hutt City Council
Big Splash Naenae
“Big Splash Naenae was a 24 hour long ‘paintathon’ organised by Hutt City Council in partnership with the Naenae Community to brighten up Hillary Court Shopping Centre. Naenae Shopping Centre (Hillary Court) is a suburban shopping centre with approximately 50 businesses. Hillary Court was built in the 1950’s. Over the years buildings in the centre had become scruffy and lacked colour. Many buildings were in desperate need of paint and the centre was plagued with vandalism and graffiti. As the look of the centre deteriorated so did local feelings of pride and ownership amongst the Naenae community. Hutt City Council organised extensive consultation with Naenae people on what they would like to see for their centre. People in the community felt that Hillary Court ‘needed more colour’ and wanted a vibrant, community friendly space. The most obvious answer would be to paint the buildings in Hillary Court.”
Kaipara District Council
Kaipara’s Future – Working Together
“Our challenge as a small cash strapped council was to recreate the LTCCP summary from a document historically produced for the purpose of satisfying legal requirements to one that was created for the people of Kaipara. Bearing in mind that people usually read only one page, the goal of this summary was to provide an inexpensive but attractive, short and simply stated document which covered all the key issues in a way that fostered thinking and involvement.”
South Waikato District Council
Dairy Push
“The South Waikato District is a predominantly rural region with industries in agriculture, forestry and heavy industry, which is one of the region’s competitive advantages. South Waikato District Council recognised the importance of supporting and building on the core economic strengths of the district, and key contributors to the success of our economy. Following survey results form the Agriculture and Horticulture sector, industry discussions took place and became more focused on the need to improve farming management and best practice skills. Dairy Push is a three year joint venture between Fonterra, Dairy New Zealand and South Waikato District Council. It is the pilot model for a value-added extension service, which is designed to provide the final step in the extension chain. The programme is based around a facilitator/consultant, who is contracted to South Waikato District Council to run the programme and achieve a number of measurable KPI’s.”
South Waikato District Council
Trade Training Centre
“The Trade Training Centre is the result of the community and various industries in the South Waikato District who voiced concerns about the lack of skilled labour available to support local business growth. Establishing the Trade Training Centre has a threefold effect. It addresses the skills gap identified in the engineering sector, which is clearly preventing this sector developing to its full potential. It ensures youth are provided with the opportunity to be trained within their own district, provides career opportunities. It provides up skilling and retraining opportunities for adults who desire to change occupations and also reduces the unemployment rate, by providing opportunities for the unemployed to re-skill.”
Nelson City Council
Nelson Youth Council – Tahunanui BBQ project
“The Tahunanui BBQ project has its roots in the decision by Council to allocate $100,000 within the 2006 LTCCP for a new youth park. The response from the Youth Council – ‘we don’t need another youth park’ started off a whole new project – a youth-led community bbq project. Key to the successful delivery of the physical asset was the development of the relationship between Council and the Youth Council. Whilst this involved an investment in staff time, Nelson now has a new, arts-inspired community facility incorporating a bbq area, a stage and space in which to relax and hang out with friends and family. In addition, Council has now a new relationship with the Youth Council which is set to result in ongoing and future benefits as we engage with young people on issues that affect them.”
Whakatane District Council
Community Consultation Model
“The model for community consultation was developed to improve the way the Council consulted, provided opportunities to listen to the community, learned from our mistakes and improve our community engagement for future projects. It also greatly assisted with the process of making decisions with complex options that can potentially impact on the future well-being of the affected communities. Effective consultation and community engagement can greatly impact the ability of Council to have a positive affect on the District right across the board, not just for significant projects..”
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Example newsletters – Matata Project News >>>> and Ohope Escarpment Drainage Project.>>>>
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Question and Answer Sheet – Whakatane District Aquatic Centre >>>>
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Checklist for Community Consultation.>>>>
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Waitaki District Council
Graffiti Eradication Project
“ Like many communities and territorial authorities Waitaki has experienced the growing problem and costs due to graffiti vandalism. Graffiti was prominently found under bridges, on road signs, parks, public and private property and was beginning to give the impression that parts of the community were uncared for, unattractive and unsafe. In turn the potential economic consequences due to people avoiding certain areas and businesses, plus the increasing cost of removal to Council and ratepayers saw a need to address graffiti vandalism in Waitaki. The goal was to minimise graffiti levels in the Waitaki District over the first year (Graffiti Eradication Programme) and implement preventative measures over years two and three (Graffiti Prevention Programme)..”
Tararua District Council
Tararua Inter-Town Fibre
“Tararua District Council entered into a three way public/private sector project with vertically diverse telco businesses to create approximately 168km of backhaul open access fibre to service a population of less than 17,800 people for a minimum of 20 and mostly 30 years. The project provides a stable platform for Council IT services across a large geographical area with the potential to join or host future joint services with other organisations.”
Christchurch City Council
“Matariki” and “Matariki at the Marae”
The Christchurch City Council is committed to a culture of diversity aimed at recognising, acknowledging, valuing, celebrating and utilising the diversity of people in our organisation & community. Matariki is an excellent platform to celebrate diversity. Matariki celebrates the diversity of life. It’s a celebration of culture, language, spirit and people. Matariki is our Aotearoa Pacific New Year.
Matariki signals growth, It’s a time of change. It’s a time to prepare, and a time of action. We acknowledge what we have and what we have to give..”
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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