Towards a robust workforce strategy
Duane Leo, the PSA National Secretary responsible for the Public Service Association’s Local Government sector. PSA members working in local government also live and pay...
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A huge shift in LTP obligations
We are entering a ‘brave new world’ of heightened accountability for council financial planning with demands for new and improved performance and accountability that were...
The founder dilemma
‘I wish there were a button’ … that’s a statement that needs some context – doesn’t it? asks David Hammond, the Executive Search Lead at...
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...
Dumb tunnels and dumb laws
Wayne Brown, engineer and Mayor of Auckland. As mayor of Auckland I am fighting a constant battle with Wellington bureaucrats to enable Aucklanders to actually...
Providing for oversize transport
Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, CEO, Heavy Haulage Association. The specialist oversize sector of the road transport industry involves the movement of large indivisible items on transporters for...
Supreme Court green lights climate change case
Frana Divich, Partner, Heaney and Partners. On 7 February 2024 the Supreme Court allowed a novel climate change case called Smith v Fonterra Co-Operative Group...
Are our air quality standards working
In the Local Government magazine archives we found a press release from the Environment Minister at the time, Marian Hobbs, who in August 2005 claimed...
The holy grail of ‘trust and confidence’
‘Communication’: Every council wants it; every council measures it; and every council is disappointed by it. By Elizabeth Hughes. Every elected member and chief executive...