Tauranga City Council, NZ

Tauranga City Council, NZ Piki Ake pilot prepares unemployed youth for future careers

Piki Ake - or To Ascend - recruited four unemployed young residents for employment with the council. The one-year pilot rotates trainees through roles with the Customer Services, Libraries, and Māori Student Services teams. City employees provide training in professional and life skills throughout each trainee's employment. Graduates of Piki Ake leave with the confidence, skills, and experience necessary for success in the workforce.

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Tauranga City Council, NZ

New Zealand

Tauranga City Council, NZ presents different dimensions of community wellbeing on digital dashboards

City staffers converted 18 suburb and priority demographic reports from 2020 into online dashboards. Priority demographics include youths, seniors, the homeless, and Māori residents. Each dashboard uses visualizations to show the aspirations, challenges, and resources available to the targeted suburb or group. Tauranga City Council compiled all of these reports into a central dashboard of citywide goals and needs.

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Tauranga City Council, NZ

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Tauranga City Council, NZ new license plate recognition system to enforce free parking trial limits

Tauranga City Council started using a new license plate recognition (LPR) system to enforce free-parking time limits in its city centre. The LPR system is a set of high-resolution cameras mounting onto a roving vehicle which captures the license plate details and GPS coordinates of parked cars. The Council deployed the new LPR system in response to drivers abusing the two-hour free-parking trial by shuffling around free parking spaces instead of moving to a paid parking area.

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Tauranga City Council, NZ

New Zealand

Tauranga City Council, NZ is negotiating a six-month trial of e-scooter rentals with Lime NZ

Tauranga City Council is negotiating a potential six-month trial of e-scooter rentals with Lime NZ. The trial would provide residents another option of transportation in the form of micro-mobility but the Council wants to manage the potential risks with a few stipulations before giving its approval. These conditions include a speed limit of 15 km/h, a curfew in downtown areas, and restricted zones for deployment and parkings.

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Tauranga City Council, NZ

New Zealand

Tauranga City Council, NZ launched an award-winning "Save our Pipes from Wipes" awareness campaign

Tauranga City Council partnered with local communications agency Wave to address the issue of resident flushing wet wipes which damages wastewater infrastructure and causes sewer overflows. The "Save our Pipes from Wipes" public awareness campaign was designed to inspire residents to change their behavior without feeling ashamed. The campaign's mascot was an elephant representing that the amount of wipes extracted from the Council's wastewater pipes each week equals the size of a small elephant.

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Tauranga City Council, NZ

New Zealand