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...
A recent report by the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) makes four recommendations to help councils improve the quality of information recorded from water meters and how they use this information.
This is the first of seven audits by the OAG that will look at how public organisations manage water.
The report, Monitoring how water is...
As debate continues to hot up around who “owns”, controls and manages New Zealand’s natural resources, the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) has released a new report examining effective approaches to shared governance.
Principles for co-governing natural resources outlines topline thinking behind some of the best ways to...
There is no doubt that 2015 was a challenging year for the sector. Amendments to the Local Government Act 2002, introduced in 2014, required local authorities to review how they consult on their strategic plans and also develop new ways of engaging with their communities. Requirements were also introduced to regularly review existing...
Bruce Robertson has spent a career working with numbers. Now assistant auditor-general, local government, at the Office of the Auditor-General, he talks with Ruth Le Pla about looking behind the figures to help raise some of the big issues facing local government.
It’s a measure of Bruce Robertson’s commitment to local government...
