Ruth LePla

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Orderly conduct & LGOIMA Legal

Orderly conduct & LGOIMA

Trespass and the right to attend council meetings. By Linda O'Reilly, partner, Brookfields Lawyers. When controversial issues come before local authorities, members and senior managers are often made uncomfortably aware of the provisions of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA). Among other things,...
Silos – the hidden cost of not working together Local Government 101

Silos – the hidden cost of not working together

Silos are evidenced when teams are inwardly focused. By Elizabeth Hughes. The other day a client said to me, “Our team has done our bit but because the organisation is so siloed, I think you’ll find the project is a bit of a mess.” While the irony of this was lost on the person who said it, it did lead me to consider the...
Smart solutions: Laboratory testing 3 Waters

Smart solutions: Laboratory testing

Reassurance on the quality of water supply is just one factor behind higher demand for faster and more accurate laboratory testing services. Patricia Moore talks with four specialists driving innovative solutions for councils. Increasing public concern and legislative demands for improved environmental management and safer drinking...
The dilemma of choice: waste collection services Waste Management

The dilemma of choice: waste collection services

At one stage Waimakariri District Council was offering 17,500 people a choice of 48 different permutations for their rubbish collection services. Council’s solid waste asset manager Kitty Waghorn tracks the long trail of consultation in search of a new waste collection service. She was speaking at the WasteMINZ Conference in...
Plantation forestry rules: Gear up for change on May 1 Environment

Plantation forestry rules: Gear up for change on May 1

Oliver Hendrickson outlines the new national environmental standards for plantation forestry. In August last year, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and the Ministry for the Environment launched a new nationwide set of regulations to manage plantation forestry activities. The National Environmental Standards for...
What next for Goshift? Technology

What next for Goshift?

Less than three years after the GoShift initiative was born, 21 councils from Western Bay of Plenty to Nelson are increasingly using common management frameworks to help process building consents faster, more accurately and in similar ways. Now, GoShift is considering next steps for its future structure and direction. Ruth Le Pla...
Digital transformation: What does it mean and how to do it Technology

Digital transformation: What does it mean and how to do it

When a panel of four local government IT specialists answered questions on the future of IT in councils at the ALGIM Conference in Rotorua, digital transformation proved to be a hot topic. The following are redacted highlights from the session. On the panel JOS CREESE CEO of Creese Consulting in the UK, where he provides...
Down but not out: Councils get new injury management service Health and Safety

Down but not out: Councils get new injury management service

Life Care Consultants and the Rehab Guys have joined forces to establish Life Care Injury Management. The service aims to help ease staff members who may have suffered an injury back into employment that is tailored to their abilities at the time. It also enables managers to better understand, and therefore plan for, work and staffing...
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