As we now know, Orange City Council deferred approval of its 2020/21 draft budget for community consultation from its meeting on 21st April to its next meeting on 5th May
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By the time you read this I understand that Orange City Council’s proposed budget for 2020 – 2021 will have been considered by the Council meeting on 21st April 2020 for approval to go on exhibition for community comment.
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I have frequently mentioned community satisfaction surveys in these columns. It is important for policy makers and service providers to know how community perceptions have been affected by the current COVID - 19 environment we are all living in.
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I recently interviewed Rebecca Ryan, the General Manager of Blayney Shire Council, and we talked about leadership in times of uncertainty.
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I met with Blayney Shire’s General Manager, Rebecca Ryan, in her office in Blayney and we immediately started talking about leadership in times of uncertainty
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Councils in NSW can have a minimum of 5 Councillors and a maximum of 15
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Last week the Auditor-General for New South Wales, Margaret Crawford, released her report on the Local Government sector
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In last week’s column I wrote about the Council’s second quarter progress report and said I would look at the financial quarterly review.
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I attended the Orange City Council meeting at Bowen Public School Hall on Tuesday 18th February, and the Future City Strategy presentation beforehand.
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In my columns – How to get the Best Out of Our Councils – I have lamented the fact that it seems that our three local councils do not seem to undertake Community or Customer Satisfaction Surveys, so I thought I would give some examples of the useful information that can be gained.
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Over recent months through this column, I have received quite a lot of feedback. It seems that people have enjoyed what I have had to say while also discovering some of the inner workings of Council.
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It is important for me to remember how different Australian local government is from local government in England and Wales, because of the differences in autonomy, however, I still believe that NSW councils can demonstrate better leadership and gain more community trust than at present to get closer to realising their potential. We saw how important local councils were to local communities when forced amalgamations were proposed.
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A Council’s Resourcing Strategy is an important element of its Integrated Planning and Reporting framework as a long-term strategy to achieve the objectives established by the Community Strategic Plan for which Council is responsible.
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In last week’s column I said that I would write about how Councils should be accountable to their communities through their Integrated Planning and Reporting framework.
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Council Annual Reports have recently been published. They contain a wealth of information, and I will write a few columns about what they tell us about our councils as part of the series – How to Get the Best Out of Our Councils.
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David Waddell became Orange City Council’s Chief Executive Officer in September 2019 and I asked him if he would set out his vision for Orange City, which he was pleased to do.
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Council Annual Reports have recently been published. They contain wealth of information, and I will write a few columns about what they tell us about our councils as part of the series – How to Get the Best Out of Our Councils.
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about What is Good Governance? I advise on good governance in my business and it has become good practice to evaluate the performance of a Board at least every two years.
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At the Orange City Council meeting on Tuesday 19th November the issue of Councillor attendance was discussed
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Good governance, in local government, occurs when a local council governs for an on behalf of its local community and the wider public as assessed according to certain KEY CRITERIA.
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