Costly, frustrating Head Start process
Image: Wellington Mayor Andrew Little. (Source: US Embassy) By Natasha Jojoa Burling A costly process Wellington City Council says the Head Start failure was a...
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Doing more with less
The goal is not to spend more, but to make every investment work harder, writes Warren and Mahoney Principal Architect Vajini Pannila. Vajini is giving a...
Trends impacting local government leadership
Five shifts point towards a different model of local government leadership, writes Carl Davidson, Chief Curiosity Officer and Critical Thinking Champion at The Curiosity Company....
Important we get changes right
We’re at a critical point for the country’s infrastructure and change is on the horizon as a result of the challenges we’re facing, says Philip...
Local democracy swept aside
If amalgamation weakened accountability and drove costs up in 1989, is there any reason to believe that even more heavy-handed mergers can deliver the opposite...
Lessons from setting up a new water entity
Creating a new organisation is not the finish line; it’s the foundation on which long-term success depends, writes Jaron Shaw, Establishment Programme Director for Waikato...
And the early winners are…
Each potential coalition of councils has essentially had to outsource the work around amalgamation to a consultancy because of a lack of internal capacity and capability, write...
Making balance sheets work harder
Councils must balance market risk with liquidity, inflation and concentration risk, writes Brett Moffat, Senior Consultant, Russell Investments. Brett is giving a talk at the...
Democracy or autocracy?
As the Government mulls over the proposals for how councils propose to reorganise themselves under the Head Start pathway of Simplifying Local Government, we must...
Far North’s award-winning spatial plan
Image: The Nancy Northcroft Planning Practice Award winning team: Jaimee Cannon (second from left) and Jane Rennie (Boffa Miskell), Felicity Foy, Azman Reuben and Tammy...