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Christchurch City Council Media Release

Monday 27 January 1997

CHRISTCHURCH CITY HOSTS INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES

Christchurch City Council is hosting a meeting of 11 other local authorities from North America, Europe and Japan on 29/30 January.

The Local Authorities were all finalists for the prestigious international Bertelsmann Foundation Award which in 1993 was for local authorities that were efficient, evolutionary and citizen-focussed. (In other years the single Bertelsmann Award is made for other categories.)

Christchurch won the Award jointly with Pheonix, Arizona, USA.

The finalists have kept meeting as a Network since 1993 and shared knowledge and ideas in pursuit of local authority excellence. This is the first time the Network has met in Christchurch.

"Already Christchurch residents have gained from what we have learnt from other members of the Bertelsmann Network, and in taking innovations from other places we are able to improve our City," said Mike Richardson, City Manager.

The agenda will include a section where Christchurch City Council will show the members of the Network how to change structures and with the support of staff.


SOME OPPORTUNITIES
SPOKESPEOPLE
Changing culture with staff, culture change that puts people first
Mike Richardson, Christchurch City Council, City Manager

Dorothea Brown, Christchurch City Council, Human Resources Director

Christchurch and the Bertelsmann Network - covering prize, Bertelsmann Foundation
Dr Marga Prohl, Bertelsmann Foundation

Mike Richardson

Carole Stigley or Mike Reid, LocalGvtNZ

International Co-operation to make better cities
Dr Marga Prohl

Prof Freider Naschold, Dir Research -Technology-Work Centre, Berlin

Carole Stigley or Mike Reid

Councils are big business
Johannes Boelens - Consultant

Coopers and Lybrand Netherlands

Delegates meeting at Mona Vale
Mike Richardson

ENDS


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