Upcoming Workshops
Current course information:
Standing Orders online courses Monday 9 and Friday 13 December 2024
Standing Orders are part and parcel of all formal meetings in local government whether Council, Committee, Sub Committee or Community Board. Being familiar with Standing Orders and being able to offer advice to elected members in the political meeting environment is a prerequisite for staff who attend and support elected members at meetings.
This workshop will also be of interest to reporting staff and senior staff that support political meetings. Elected members would also benefit from this workshop.
Governance Professionals Symposium
Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th January 2025 (Wellington)
Our annual Governance Professionals symposium in January each year is a popular event on our calendar. 2025 sees the election cycle come around again apart from Tauranga where the Council was elected in July 2024 for a four-year term.
The symposium will have a focus on planning for 2025 in the lead up to the elections, election day, and post-election day. The sessions will relate to the role of the Democracy Services team through each of these periods. The process of running the electoral process is not part of the symposium.
We have two excellent speakers for the symposium. Jason Marris, Chief Executive at Kaipara District Council, will talk through what a Chief Executive is looking for from the democracy support team as the council transitions to a new group of elected members following each election. He will also talk about the requirements for a Chief Executive to “facilitate and foster representative and substantial elector participation in elections and polls held under the Local Electoral Act 2001 (section 42 Local Government Act)”.
Coral Hair, Manager Democracy and Governance, will be talking through her experiences of the election of the Tauranga City Council in July this year – the lead up to the elections and the post-election induction and establishment of the new council.