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Analysis for people in NZ local government

Practical ideas for NZ councillors and council staff: how critical detail gets buried in agendas, reports and plans, and what to do about it.

Three dark agenda pages joined by a line. A highlighted report in the first has become an empty dashed outline in the second and is absent from the third.

Analysis

The risk assessment that fell off the agenda

How a critical engineering report slipped off a council agenda with tragic consequences — and five structural safety nets councils can deploy immediately to catch the next one.

· 9 min read