Growing demands
If there is a common thread running through this issue of
Council Connect, it's that councils are having to do more and
more with limited resources. Among the greatest drivers of this are
growing populations, higher community expectations and increasing
diversity among our communities.
As it happens, changes in law also create challenges. So many
widely varying pieces of legislation apply to council activities
that keeping up with them all is almost impossible. Not only that,
but often the relevant law is highly complex. We touch on a handful
of such areas in this publication, particularly around procurement
(where probity is becoming an increasingly sensitive matter),
employing people with criminal convictions, and disputed valuations
when property is acquired for public works.
