The Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) has singled out four councils’ consultation documents as good examples for others to follow. In its recent report, Long-term plans: Our audits of councils’ consultation documents, the OAG encouraged all councils to consider the examples from Hauraki, Waimate, Horowhenua and Gisborne district...
By Elizabeth Hughes.
In the latest LGNZ perceptions survey there are some revealing and sorry statistics about how the public see local government. Among them is the measure of how much they perceive local government listens to and / or makes it easy to engage with them. When elected members and staff were asked this, they rated this at...
Auditor-General Lyn Provost’s report Consulting the community about local authorities’ 10-year plans – presented to the House of Representatives recently – says that local authorities have generally responded well to the new requirements for producing a consultation document.
But some local authorities “missed the...
