Five councils have submitted entries to the inaugural Award for Achieving Cost-Effective Impact, one of the seven categories in this year’s LGFA Taituarā Excellence Awards®.
“In an era of ever tightening budgets, this Award recognises those projects and programmes that demonstrate councils successfully doing more with less” Chief Adviser Raymond Horan says. “This isn’t an easy thing to achieve – often those who claim they do more with less are actually delivering less with less”.
Raymond notes that the influence of the successive water reform processes are noticeable in this category – two of the five entries relate to councils looking at alternative ways of delivering water outcomes.
We expected this category to also attract councils organisational development and restructuring projects. That has proved to be the case with two such projects entered this year – from Palmerston North City and Waitaki District Council.
The winner of this Award, the other six category winners and the LGFA Supreme Award winner will be announced at the Taituarā Excellence Awards Dinner at Tākina in Wellington on 12 June.
