Published: 30 Jun 2020
Taking Us Forward - Our District's Recovery Plan
This is a summary of Councils response to the effects of COVID-19. We are continuing to refine and adapt our response to best meet the community’s needs.
What we are doing now
For You
- Review Annual Plan and rates rise
- Contactless payment options
- Provide more options for payment of fees and charges
- Providing more services online
- Ensure our services are delivered safely according to Level 2 restrictions
For Business
- Offer payment plans to spread cost of fees
- Trial changes to CBD parking to support shopping local
- Rapid supplier payments
- Technology adopted to provide building inspections to be carried out remotely
For The Community
- Maintain a Civil Defence response
- Refocused budget
- Develop and implement the City Hub strategy
- Update our emergency management planning to increase our communities resilience
- Initiating and lead the Re-ignition Panel
- Greater co-operation and engagement with Central Government on funding opportunities
For You
- Review Annual Plan and rates rise
- Contactless payment options
- Provide more options for payment of fees and charges
- Providing more services online
- Ensure our services are delivered safely according to Level 2 restrictions
For Business
- Offer payment plans to spread cost of fees
- Trial changes to CBD parking to support shopping local
- Rapid supplier payments
- Technology adopted to provide building inspections to be carried out remotely
For The Community
- Maintain a Civil Defence response
- Refocused budget
- Develop and implement the City Hub strategy
- Update our emergency management planning to increase our communities resilience
- Initiating and lead the Re-ignition Panel
- Greater co-operation and engagement with Central Government on funding opportunities
What we are planning to do
Continue to advance and implement the actions above as well as:
For You
- Rate rebates and penalties policy review
For Business
- Accelerating the large programme of projects
- Increase the focus on sourcing products and services from and through local suppliers
- Find ways to accelerate our consenting processes
- Ongoing support for local stimulus campaigns
For the community
- New $2M additional stimulus fund
- Responding to the suggestions from the Re-ignition Panel
- Refocused Annual Plan
- Manage transition of emergency Welfare functions to other organisations
- Ensure the review of the District Plan reflects the community’s aspirations for our built environment
- Develop and implement the City Hub strategy
- Update our emergency management planning to increase our communities resilience
Continue to advance and implement the actions above as well as:
For You
- Rate rebates and penalties policy review
For Business
- Accelerating the large programme of projects
- Increase the focus on sourcing products and services from and through local suppliers
- Find ways to accelerate our consenting processes
- Ongoing support for local stimulus campaigns
For the community
- New $2M additional stimulus fund
- Responding to the suggestions from the Re-ignition Panel
- Refocused Annual Plan
- Manage transition of emergency Welfare functions to other organisations
- Ensure the review of the District Plan reflects the community’s aspirations for our built environment
- Develop and implement the City Hub strategy
- Update our emergency management planning to increase our communities resilience
What we are thinking about
Council is starting to think strategically about our future in a post-COVID world
- Environmental Leadership
- How to increase the economic, social, cultural and environmental resilience of our community to better ‘weather’ unexpected events?
- Maintaining our place as a ‘lifestyle’ capital
- Improving our community connectedness
- Addressing the disruptions caused to our society by megatrends (e.g. low emissions economy
- Supporting our CBDs to be the hubs of our towns, so people are attracted to shop, live & play
- Dealing with the ‘new normal’ world COVID-19 has created
- How do we maximise good environmental outcomes while keeping rates affordable for current and future generations?
Council is starting to think strategically about our future in a post-COVID world
- Environmental Leadership
- How to increase the economic, social, cultural and environmental resilience of our community to better ‘weather’ unexpected events?
- Maintaining our place as a ‘lifestyle’ capital
- Improving our community connectedness
- Addressing the disruptions caused to our society by megatrends (e.g. low emissions economy
- Supporting our CBDs to be the hubs of our towns, so people are attracted to shop, live & play
- Dealing with the ‘new normal’ world COVID-19 has created
- How do we maximise good environmental outcomes while keeping rates affordable for current and future generations?
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