The annual professional development event for those who lead or participate in the development of the long-term plan.
- 18 Sep 2023-19 Sep 2023
- 10:00 - 17:00
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- Christchurch Town Hall, 86 Kilmore St, Christchurch Central, Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand
- 950.00 (plus GST) Members
- 1,100.00 (plus GST) Non Members
About this event
Last stop for 2024!
There’s now less than a year to 30 June 2024 and the last stop on our road to 2024 is the 2023 Community Plan Forum – a last chance to discuss some of the core factors that will shape the 2024 LTP.
An LTP is never easy to land, and this year may be more difficult than many. Wellness is always important, but never more so in the run-up to 30 June. We begin this year’s session with an interactive workshop that provides practical tools for managing your own wellbeing (and the wellbeing of those around you).
The troika of reform projects are a major forecasting assumption for LTP 2024. With the 2024 election underway by the time we meet, reforms will be on a temporary pause. Learn about the latest developments in the reform process, and discuss what might just happen after 14 October.
This year you can tailor your forum experience to yours and your councils’ needs with optional sessions covering:
- decision-making
- strategy writing
- setting levels of service, performance measures, and targets
- managing submissions
- the LTP and organisational planning
- capturing the lessons – an effective LTP debrief.
And with the usual updates on the economy and from the Office of the Auditor-General, the forum is your indispensable source of information to put the final touches on the LTP.
Day one: 18 September 2023
8:45 am Registration and tea and coffee on arrival
9:15 am Mihi whakatau
9:30 am Welcome
Raymond Horan, Chief Advisor, Taituarā
9:35 am How to thrive through the LTP and beyond (an interactive workshop)
Lauren Parsons, Managing Director, Lauren Parsons Wellbeing
Managing an LTP is never an easy task. To do it well, you need to stay well. This session will look at practical strategies and tools to respond positively, survive and thrive in the face of the challenges ahead. The value of this session will last well after the LTP!
11:05 am Morning tea
11:30 am The reforms – what’s happened and what comes next?
Kath Ross, General Manager, Strategy and Reform, Taituarā
Raymond Horan, Chief Advisor, Taituarā
An update on the reforms and the latest thinking on how these will play out in LTP 2024.
12:30 pm Sector workshops
An opportunity to discuss issues and challenges with other councils:
- Metropolitan and provincial cities – led by Joshua Logan, Team Leader: Corporate Planning, Tauranga City Council
- The Heartland Group – led by Paul Hope, Group Manager Finance and Corporate Development and Acting Group Manager Assets, Waitaki District Council
- Regional – led by Raymond Horan, Chief Advisor, Taituarā
1:20 pm Lunch
2:10 pm Marketplace – session one
Choose from:
1) Managing submissions
Joshua Logan, Team Leader: Corporate Planning, Tauranga City Council
What should you do with submissions once they’ve arrived? This session includes managing, submission analysis, and interacting with the submitters.
2) KPI clinic
Kathy Dever-Tod, Group Manager- Parks and Logistics, Palmerston North City Council
This is a ‘hands on’ session for those working on their performance management framework. This session is intended to ‘crowd source’ solutions to some of the tougher areas to come up with relevant, customer focussed measures with an expert facilitator.
3) Working the LTP into the organisational planning
Peter Ryan, Head of Corporate Planning and Performance, Christchurch City Council
How does the LTP flow into the organisation?
3:05 pm Marketplace – session two
Choose another from session one above.
3:55 pm Afternoon tea
4.30 pm Economic update – BERL
Hillmarè Schulze, Director/Chief Economist, BERL
LTPs aren’t developed in a vacuum, and to close the first day, a scan of the economic backdrop to the long-term plan and a few other economic issues that might be relevant as your plans reach the decision-making phases.
5:20 pm Close day one
5:25 pm Networking drinks
Day two: 19 September 2023
8:40 am Welcome back
Raymond Horan, Chief Advisor, Taituarā
8.45 am Looking forward to 2023
Mark Maloney, Assistant Auditor-General, Local Government, Office of the Auditor-General
The ‘LTP year’ update from the audit sector including the key aspects of the audit of the 2024 LTPs.
9.30 am Marketplace – session three
Choose from:
1) Good decision making
Mike Wakefield, Partner, Simpson Grierson
Jonathan Salter, Special Counsel, Simpson Grierson
An LTP is the sum of a large number of decisions big and small. This is a session melding the art and the science of advising the decision-makers.
2) Learning for the next time: conducting an LTP debrief
Niall Baker, Policy Team Leader, Matamata-Piako District Council
A practical session for project leaders covering systems and processes for recording your experiences from LTP 2024 for the next long-term plan (whatever form that takes).
3) Strategy writing
Raymond Horan, Chief Advisor, Taituarā
Tips and other sage advice for preparing the financial and infrastructure strategies in the post-reform.
10:20 am Taituarā update
Representative from Taituarā
An update about the sector, and the latest from Taituarā and its mahi on behalf of the sector.
10:50 am Morning tea
11:10 am Marketplace - session four
Choose another from session three above.
12 noon Engaging on a budget
Raymond Horan, Chief Advisor, Taituarā
And to finish, a sharing of experiences with your peers on your favourite means for engaging cost-effectively.
12:40 pm Sum up
Raymond Horan, Chief Advisor, Taituarā
12:50 pm Close of forum
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Who should attend?
Anyone with a general interest but in particular strategic and policy planners.
If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact events@taituara.org.nz
Presenters
Raymond Horan
Chief Advisor, Taituarā Read ProfileRaymond Horan
Chief Advisor, Taituarā- raymond.horan@taituara.org.nz
Raymond re-joined Taituarā in June 2014 as Sector Improvement Manager, before commencing his current role as Chief Advisor at Taituarā. He has spent most of the last 20 years in local government related roles, most recently with the Department of Internal Affairs.
He describes his job as two-thirds providing assistance to the local government sector and one-third providing advice to central government on local government matters. His ambition is to help develop a Local Government Act that doesn’t require changes every 18 months. He asks that you wish him well with this task.
Lauren Parsons
Managing Director, Lauren Parsons Wellbeing Read ProfileLauren Parsons
Managing Director, Lauren Parsons WellbeingLauren is an award-winning Wellbeing Specialist with over 20 years’ experience, who helps organisations create a high-energy, peak-performance team culture, where people thrive. TEDx speaker, author of Thriving Leaders, Thriving Teams and real food less fuss, and host of the Thrive TV Show. Lauren is a sought-after international speaker and consultant who integrates her wellness and business background to help leaders and their teams thrive. Based in rural Manawatu, where she lives with her husband, three children and a menagerie of animals. She can often be found hosting dinner parties, playing board games or spending time outdoors.
Josh Logan
Team Leader: Corporate Planning, Tauranga City Council Read ProfileJosh Logan
Team Leader: Corporate Planning, Tauranga City CouncilJosh has 11 years of Corporate Planning experience in the Local Government sector. The first six in NSW at a large metro Sydney Council (City of Ryde). The last five years back home in New Zealand worked the on 2018 Long-term Plan project team at Rotorua Lakes Council before returning to his hometown of Tauranga to take up the role of Team Leader: Corporate Planning at Tauranga City Council and project manage the 2021 Long-term Plan.
Kathy Dever-Tod
Parks & Reserves Manager, Palmerston North City Council Read ProfileKathy Dever-Tod
Parks & Reserves Manager, Palmerston North City CouncilKathy has been recognized throughout New Zealand for more than 18 years as leading asset management practice through her work with industry groups such as IPWEA and Taituarā developing best practice guidelines and delivering industry training. She worked closely with Treasury on implementing Asset Management as a business change process in Central Government. Kathy is a member of the NAMS Group board, NAMS Council Australasia, and the IPWEA training committee. Kathy is also the former CEO of the National Asset Management Support (NAMS) Group, was a member of the Ministry of Education Infrastructure Board for seven years, including Chair from 2014- 2017.
Kathy has 15 years’ experience as a Local Government Infrastructure Manager, with a strong background in Parks and Community Facilities. For the past 10 years Kathy has worked as an independent asset management advisor with a focus on the delivery of training, coaching and mentoring, the development and review of organisational performance management frameworks and undertaking asset management peer reviews.
Peter Ryan
Head of Performance Management, Christchurch City Council Read ProfileHillmarè Schulz
Principal Economist, BERL Read ProfileHillmarè Schulz
Principal Economist, BERLHillmarè Schulze is the Chief Economist at BERL. She draws on her experience, being a practising economist for more than 30 years across the globe. She has worked in multilateral and bilateral organisations, private and government sector. She is currently heading BERL, and values the credible and independent voice that the team brings to the economic and policy dialogue in New Zealand. BERL has been in business for more than 60 years, and prides itself on being a private economic consultancy, supporting central and regional government, private companies as well as various Māori and iwi entities by providing a credible evidence base and economic analysis to support good decision-making. She is a strong supporter of regional economic development, the Māori economy and making sure that the next generation has the tools to be productive global citizens.
Prior to joining BERL, Hillmarè worked for Te Puni Kōkri and the then Department of Labour. She moved to New Zealand in 2016, from the World Bank, where she worked as a senior economist focussed on 47 African countries.
She believes that economic development is a means to an end, and definitely not the end itself. Economic development should support families and communities to grow and thrive.
Niall Baker
Policy Team Leader Read ProfileNiall Baker
Policy Team LeaderNiall is Policy Team Leader at Matamata-Piako District Council. He has around 14 years’ experience as an advisor in the corporate and community planning sphere of local government including Long Term Plans, Annual Plans/Reports, bylaws, policy, community engagement, and iwi relations. He has an Honours degree in Social Sciences, and Master’s degree in Environmental Planning.
Niall has worked on Long-Term Plans since 2009 and is currently project managing the 2024 Long-term Plan. Niall believes good policy advice is critical to ensuring elected members can make informed decisions.
Kathryn Ross
General Manager Strategy & Reform, Taituarā Read ProfileKathryn Ross
General Manager Strategy & Reform, Taituarā- kath.ross@taituara.org.nz
Kath is a highly experienced local government leader and manager, with 25 years’ experience in local and central government, including regional (Northland), city (Wellington) and district (Masterton and Far North) councils, the Environment Agency (England and Wales) and a stint at LGNZ. She is a passionate, dedicated public servant that has led teams covering the full range of local government responsibilities, including: strategic and district planning and policy; finance, risk, infrastructure and asset management; governance; communications, events and marketing; and community, social and economic development.
Kath holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a Bachelor of Arts (History and Politics) from Victoria University of Wellington and a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law and Management from the University of Wales.