Response about our freshwater clean-up recommendations
13 July 2021: We asked the Ministry for the Environment for an update on its response to recommendations we made in 2019 about the Crown’s investment in efforts to clean up New Zealand’s freshwater.
Tauranga City Council car park building project
26 May 2021: We wrote to Tauranga City Council after looking into the procurement process for its car park building project.
Crown investment in freshwater clean-up
September 2019: We examined how the Ministry for the Environment administered four Crown freshwater clean-up funds for improving lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands. Our primary objective was to assess whether Crown funding was being used effectively to improve freshwater quality.
Request to inquire into Mudtopia
4 December 2018: We have written to the Chief Executive of Rotorua District Council with the reasons for our decision not to inquire into Mudtopia.
Monitoring how water is used for irrigation
May 2018: This is our first of seven audits that will look at how public organisations manage water. For this audit, we looked at how freshwater used for irrigation is tracked and measured. This included looking at how well water meter installation was managed, the quality of data collected from water meters, how the data was used, and whether this was leading to positive changes in the way water is used. We focused on five regional councils and one unitary council from six different regions.
Getting the right information to effectively manage public assets: Lessons from local authorities
December 2017: Elected councillors need relevant and reliable information to make good decisions about managing the assets they govern. As communities and environments change, the challenges that local authorities face and decisions they make are becoming more complex. We looked at how five local authorities approached identifying and gathering the right information about their assets...
Case Study 7: Information Technology Outsourcing - Opotiki District Council and Environment Bay of Plenty
Local Authorities Working Together.
Auditing a Long-term Financial Strategy - Opotiki District Council Pilot Project
September 2000: During 1998, Opotiki District Council asked us for assurance about the quality of its Long-term Financial Strategy (LTFS). The Council wanted to improve the reliability of its forecasting. Improving reliability is significantly dependent on the quality and robustness of the underlying assumptions used to develop models and scenarios in the LTFS...
