Good Practice Toolkit
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Please note - once on this site, you will need your local authority's password to access the Legal Compliance Modules. Please contact Don Mackay on 04 978 1258, or email Don, if you have any queries.
Background
In 1999/2000 the Top of the South Branch of SOLGM initiated the SOLGM Legal Compliance Programme.
The programme is based on a cooperative approach to developing “good practice” legal compliance processes and procedures across a range of local government activities, utilising the existing knowledge base within local government and sharing the costs.
The legal compliance framework and associated programmes is an internet based system with its own website – www.solgm.co.nz. Access to the site is restricted by password to paying subscribers.
In 2003 responsibility for the programme transferred to the SOLGM national office in Wellington. It is overseen by the SOLGM Centre of Excellence through the Legal Compliance Programme Working Party.
The website was re-built and was re-launched on 1 July 2004.
Objective
The objective of the programme is to assist local authorities in identifying and meeting their legal obligations by:
- Developing a legal compliance framework for local authorities; and
- Developing a series of specific legal compliance modules relating to specific areas of local government activity, based on the framework
Modules
Fourteen modules are currently available on the website:
- Building Consents
- Health and Safety
- Land Information Memorandum (L.I.M.s)
- Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA)
- Property Sales and Acquisitions
- Resource Consent
- Tendering and Procurement
- Enforcement
- The Privacy Act
- Liquor Licensing
- Employment
- Dog Control
- Rating - Billing and Collection Processes
- National Dog Database
- Decision-making
- Development Contributions
- Rates Rebates
Modules are continuously reviewed and augmented to keep them up to date and relevant.
Working Party
The current working party members are:
| Andrew Besley (Chairperson) Marlborough District Council |
Jamie Lyall Marlborough District Council |
| Tony Cronin Kapiti Coast District Council |
Don Mackay SOLGM |
| Bede Kearney Audit New Zealand |
Robyn McCulloch Manukau City Council |
| Michael Le Roy-Dyson Ministry for the Environment |
Howard Read North Shore City Council |
Participation
There are 84 member authorities. Each has full access to the website via an individual local authority password. Member authorities pay an annual fee (currently $2,500). This funds the development, maintenance and operation of the programme.