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...
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Removing well-being responsibility from local government
By Peter Dunne. The water pipe, which burst beneath Wellington’s Cambridge Terrace on Wednesday morning [21 August], could not have chosen a better moment to...
Safer communities together
Caption: Mayor Paula Southgate with Hamilton city area Police Commander, Inspector Andrea McBeth (photo: Stuff/Waikato Times). Paula Southgate, Mayor of Hamilton. New Zealand is facing...
Chief executive performance committees
David Hammond, Executive Search Lead, Tribe. It should be easy to develop the Terms of Reference (ToR) for a Chief Executive Performance Committee (titles may...
Court of Appeal overturns misfeasance
Frana Divich, Heaney and Partners. Misfeasance in a public office is the common law’s only public law tort. It is unusual because only public...
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...
Challenging behaviours in community meetings
If your role requires you to facilitate community meetings or workshops, at some point you will come face-to-face with challenging behaviours and difficult group...
Hold the line, we know what we are doing
Louise LaHatte, chair of The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa’s (LIANZA) Freedom for Information standing committee, says libraries defend a person’s right...
Health and safety conference in Christchurch
The use of BIM (Building Information Modelling) in construction has doubled in the last six years and has been mandated for all government projects greater...
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...