AI use in local government
Mike Manson, Chief Executive of the Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM). Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm but you may...
Category : Governance
Governance review – Tauranga City Council
Jeremy Sole explains how, in the new world of CCOs, the Tauranga City Council’s recent bi-annual CCO board review was provided by a framework based...
What elected members need to know
For most elected members it is mid-term. But the out-of-cycle election of members marking the return of Tauranga City Council from a Commission to fully...
Investigation into council practices
The Ombudsman investigated eight councils to see whether they were following the right processes in their meetings and workshops and says it is in the...
Tougher government scrutiny for infrastructure
The new Government needs to ensure it doesn’t repeat the costly infrastructure decisions of the previous one, warns Peter Dunne. It is a time-honoured ploy...
Local democracy challenge
Grant Duncan, the Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, at Massey University. A commentator on public affairs, his most recent book is The Problem of...
Elections are over – let the triennium begin
By Mike Doesburg, a partner at Wynn Williams who acts for councils on a wide range of local government and environmental issues. The reality of...
New Government, new taxes?
By Brett Crombie, director, Straightedge Accounting. Now that the dust has settled on the election [2020] and the new Government has been sworn in, it...
The role of a governance professional explained
By Steve McDowell, Meeting and Governance Solutions. A new councillor once asked me; “who do I go to if I want to know something in...
Local by default
Local governance in Wiltshire, UK Anyone wanting to see how the localism model could play out in New Zealand would do well to look at...