Celebrating new ideas
2009 New Zealand Post Group Local Government Excellence Awards
Joined Up Local Government Category
Category Winner
New Plymouth District Council
New Plymouth District Alcohol Strategy
“The alcohol strategy is informed by a ‘whole of community’ approach. The approach detailed in this strategy recognises that the consumption of alcohol occurs at a wide range of environments and places throughout the district, and emphasises the importance of promoting the safe and responsible consumption of alcohol in all settings. Working together, the council and its partners can achieve better and more sustainable outcomes to reduce alcohol related harms, and to promote safer alcohol-related environments for the community.”
Category Commendation
Stratford District Council
Stratford TET Home Safety Project
In essence the objectives of the Stratford TET Home Safety Project were, to promote home safety awareness by providing appropriate information and education on home safety.and to provide and install to NZ Fire Service standards, FREE smoke alarms in homes throughout the central Taranaki area. The Stratford TET Home Safety Project Group was formed in June/July 2007 and is a collective of community and government organisations who have formed a partnership, documented in a Memorandum of Understanding, to deliver a home safety initiative to the residents of central Taranaki.”
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Download the awards entry >>>>
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Download additional information >>>>
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A summary of the information from the follow‐up survey. >>>>
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A copy of the memorandum of understanding. >>>>
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For further information about the entry contact:
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Pauline James, Community Services Manager, 06 765 6099,
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Other Entries
Dunedin City Council
Tertiary Precinct Development Plan
“Dunedin has an international reputation for being a centre for learning excellence. The North Dunedin Tertiary Precinct is the largest tertiary campus in Australasia, and is a base for over 24,000 students, the majority of which have migrated from elsewhere in New Zealand and from overseas to study. Most of these students reside in the area surrounding the tertiary institutions, making it the largest concentration of 18-25 year olds in New Zealand. In recognition of the unique relationship between the Council and its tertiary institutions, plans to formalize the relationship began in 1989, but were never fully adopted. In 2006, at the request of the heads of the Dunedin City Council, the University, and the Polytechnic, a Tertiary Precinct Project Team was established to co-ordinate and draft a Tertiary Precinct Development Plan (Development Plan) which would outline a shared vision for the Tertiary Precinct, key issues facing the area, and objectives and actions for the future form of the area.”
Auckland City Council, Manukau City Council, Waitakere City Council, North Shore City Council, Rodney District Council, Papakura District Council, Franklin District Council
Auckland Regional Graffiti Free Project
“The Auckland Region Graffiti Free (ARGF) project, a Local Government and Police partnership, aims to prevent and eradicate graffiti vandalism and hold offenders accountable. The ARGF involves working inclusively with key stakeholders: the business sector, service providers, utility companies, transport operators, community groups, schools and central government agencies towards a common goal of eliminating the graffiti vandalism problem..”
Hutt City Council and Upper Hutt City Council
Fit 4 Funding
“Fit 4 Funding was one day forum for community groups aimed at advising groups on the processes and procedures around applying for funding from funding agencies. The forum had booths from local funding organisations. Staff from these organisations were available for groups to discuss their particular funding requirements. There was also a variety of fundraising ideas for organisations. The forum was full of speakers and workshops of which attendees could choose depending on their particular groups needs. Advice was given on the economic recession, fundraising, what funders require, accountability, filling in application forms for funding and selling the groups in the best light possible to funders..”
Rodney District Council
Grenade SLOW DOWN
“Excessive speed or driving too fast for the conditions continues to litter the Auckland region with costly road trauma on both urban and rural local roads. Recent national speed surveys show that 80% of Auckland drivers on free-flowing urban roads travel above the 50kph speed limit and around 60% of drivers travel above the
100kph open road speed limit in free flowing conditions. These drivers pose a risk to themselves, others who share the roads with them and the community. Speed was identified as one of the four major road safety issues in the Rodney District. The council wanted to continue to take a strong stand against speeding in the community – a big idea to combat speeding away from traditional media that could generate mass talkability and raise community rejection of speeding. We wanted to tell a different side of the story and demonstrate the physical force of a head on collision.
The council, together with the team from Saatchi & Saatchi (Auckland), developed a ground breaking innovative idea, designed to make drivers think twice before pushing their foot harder on the accelerator...”
Kaipara District Council
K–COP, A Journey through Kaipara
Kaipara Community Outcomes Process Steering Group is the story of the experiences of all those involved in working to develop and achieve community outcomes in the Kaipara District. It is about collaboration between central government, local government and key community organisations in a small and relatively isolated local authority area. Recognising that local and central government and other organisations all have mandates to promote community well-being, Council formed an inter-agency Steering Group, the Kaipara Community Outcomes Process Steering Group (K-COP) to oversee the process of identifying and delivering to community outcomes. ”
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 >>>>.