Staying Updated & Connecting with Others
LGOL offers facilities to promote discussions, both within and across local government organisations and with the public and community groups. The most popular form of communication and networking is the discussion List facilitiy.
How do the Lists Work?
There are over 200,000 people subscribed to the lists who collectively send and receive almost 500,000 communications each month! The lists operate as a virtual team or community of your peers where you can pose a question regarding a problem issue or idea that you have come across in your day to day work or on a special project and every other person that works in local government in the same role as you will be able to share their thoughts, ideas and potential solutions. It helps you keep up-to-date with current issues and provides the ability to utilise the experience of others in the same situation. They even have a cool archive facility where you can look up the answers to a question someone asked last week, last month or even last year!
LGOL also provides a similar service to councils and councillors as a method of being able to easily keep in touch with their communities.
Who can join?
The lists are generally restricted to New Zealand local government employees. In rare circumstances those carrying out work in the sector in central government or community organisation may also be eligible for membership.
The only exception to this is LGOL What's New a bi-weekly news round up of what is happening in the sector sent each Monday and Thursday. This mailing list is open to anyone that wishes to receive the What's New updates
How do I join?
Subscribe to a list by emailing listserv@listserv.localgovt.co.nz with subscribe and the group name in the body of the email
The group I want isn't on the list!
LGOL is always happy to add Lists to extend the availability of the facility to elected members and other government agencies with a need to communicate regularly with interest groups. Email support@localgovt.co.nz to discuss the creation of a List to meet your needs.
| Current Discussion Groups & Mailing Lists |
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Who can join |
Sponsors & Other Info |
| WHATSNEW | Sign up to LGOL What's New to receive updates of local government news and events twice a week |  |
| COUNCILLORS |
Elected members List. | |
| ANIMALCONTROL |
Animal Control Officers, Contractors and members of New Zealand Institute of Animal Control Officers | |
| APLM |
Association Public Library Managers | |
| ARTS | For those responsible for arts & culture activities or programmes | |
| ASSETMGRS |
Community Infrastructure & Utilities Managers & INGENIUM Members | |
| BLDGCONTROL |
Building Controllers & Regulatory Group Managers | |
| BYLAWS | For staff involved in bylaw-making and review | |
| CEO |
Council CEOs (Restricted List - forwarding may in some circumstances be arranged through support@localgovt.co.nz ) |
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| CEMETERIES-CREMATORIA | Cemeteries and Crematoria | |
| CESIG | Regional RMA Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement Special Interest Group | |
| CIVIC-AUTHORITY | Authority User Group (Private) (Contact: Don Glenn: dglenn@civica.co.nz) |  |
| CLIMATE-CHANGE-ADAPTATION |
All engaged in matters related to adaptation to climate change |
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| COMDEV |
Community Development & Support |
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| COMFAC | Community Facilities & Recreation Managers |
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| COMMITTADVRS |
Committee Secretaries/Advisors |
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| COMMSCOUNCIL | Communications Managers and Media Officers |
Formerly an Online Group. Migrated to Listserv 22/11/2010. |
| COMMSAFETY | Community Safety | |
| CS-VUEUSERS | Online resource consent compliance management Forum |  |
| CUSTSERVICES |
Customer Services | |
| DESIGN | "Communicate through good design" | |
| ECONDEV |
Council & Agency/Trust Economic Development Managers |
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| ELDERLY-COMMUNITY HOUSING |
Elderly Community Housing |
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| EMERGMAN |
Emergency Management |
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| ENERGY-EFFICIENCY-SUSTAINABILITY | Discussion on energy efficiency, sustainability and social programmes | |
| EVENTS | Event interest in the local government sector in New Zealand | |
| FAMILYVIOLENCE |
Family Violence workstream of local & central government Social Issues Forum | |
| FINANCE | Finance Managers/Directors & Associates |
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| GIS | Personnel with GIS responsibilities |
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| GOFORMSDISCUSS | Users of LGOL GoForms |
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| HEALTH-SAFETY |
Health and Safety Professionals |
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| HRMGRS |
Human Resource Managers |
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| HSNO |
Hazardous Substances & New Organisms. |
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| IBIS-RATE-MODELING |
A forum for users of the Ibis Rates Modeling system |
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| IMTOOLKIT |
User group for ALGIM's IMTOOLKIT product |
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| INFOMGRS |
Information and Records Managers |
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| INFOR-PATHWAY-SIG |
Infor Pathway Special Interest Group (was GEACUSERS) | |
| ITMGRS |
Information Technology Managers |
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| ITPROGRAMMERS |
IT Programmers | |
| KIDSVOTING | Giving school students the opportunity of an authentic voting experience | |
| LAPA | Property Managers & discussion platform for Local Authority Property Association (Inc) | |
| LEGCOMPLIANCECHAMPS |
SOLGM Legal Compliance Programme | |
| LGLAWYERS |
Legal personnel |
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| LGLIBRARIANS |
Corporate Librarians and Researchers |
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| LGOLJOBS |
Currant vacancies in the New Zealand local government sector | |
| LGPLANNERS |
Planning and Resource Management (Note: this List is for both territorial and regional officers. There are Lists restricted to regional and unitary authority officers) | |
| LGECOLNETWORK |
Ecologists working in local government, with a focus on terrestrial and wetland ecology, and working with communities and private landowners. | |
| LIMS | Forum for issues relating to Land Information Memoranda | |
| LOCAL-BOARDS | Serving the members of the Auckland Council Local Boards (Private) | |
| MAORI-POLICY |
Maori Policy Discussion |
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| MAYORS-CHAIRS |
Mayors and Chairs of New Zealand Councils |
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| NCSUSERS |
NCS User Group |
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| NETADMIN |
Network Administrators |
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| NZCOMMBRDS | Community Board Members nationwide |
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| NZPPOF | New Zealand Pollution Prevention Officers Forum | |
| ORIGENCOUNCIL | Origen Users Group (Restricted) | |
| OSET | For Planners and Compliance Officers working in the development and auditing of On Site Effluent Treatment Regional Plans. | |
| OTUF | Users of Open Text Products | |
| PKGENFORCEMENT |
Parking Control/Enforcement |
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| PA | Personal Assistants/Executive Secretaries | |
| PARKS-GARDENS | Parks and Gardens | |
| POLICY |
Policy Analysts/Advisors/Strategists |
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| PRFO |
Principal Rural Fire Officers |
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| PROCUREMENTCOP | Public Sector Procurement Community of Practice. Enables approved COP members from right across local and central government to share procurement experiences, ideas and knowledge. Sponsored by the Government Procurement Development Group of the Ministry of Economic Development and supported by the Procurement Advisory Group, Local Government New Zealand, and Local Government Online. | |
| PROCURENZ |
This list will be of interest to all Council officers working in a Procurement team or involved in purchasing,tendering, setting or managing contracts (excludes employment contracts) |
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| RATESWGTON |
Greater Wellington Region Rating Officers |
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| RATING |
Rating Officers |
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| READYNET-REVIEW |
Newsletters from Emergency Preparedness Network Readynet |
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| RECIT | Senior IT personnel responsible for core strategy in regional councils and unitary authorities | |
| REGIONALRESOURCEMGRS | Regional Council Resource Managers (restricted) | |
| REGIONALSYSTEM | For managers responsible for core systems strategy in Regional Councils and Unitary Authorities (restricted) | |
| REGULATORY |
Regulatory Managers/Officers |
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| REP-REVIEWS | Representation Review discussion | |
| RISKMANAGEMENT | Risk Management in Local Government (Owner: dmackay@solgm.org.nz ) |
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| RIVERANDDRAINAGE |
Operational civil engineers, asset managers and technicians involved the fields and River Control and Land Drainage within New Zealand |
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| RMAADMIN |
Forum for RMA Administrators |
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| RMAENFORCEMENT | Assuring compliance under the RMA | |
| RO |
Electoral Officers |
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| RURAL-ISSUES |
Rural Council Mayors and Chief Executives |
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| SENDIS | Disability & Seniors Advisors in Councils |
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| SCHOOLTRAVELPLANS |
School Travel Planning |
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| SOLGM-EWP |
SOLGM electoral working party |
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| STRAT-CORPLANNING |
Strategic/Corporate Planning |
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| STVELECTORAL |
STV Elections management |
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| SUSTAINABLETRANSPORT | Transport planners in local and central government |
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| TE-MARUATA | Appointed LGNZ committee members only. (Contact: Mike Reid mike.reid@lgnz.co.nz) |
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| TECHNOLOGYONEUSERS | TechnologyOne Users Group (Contact: gavin_turley@TECHNOLOGYONECORP.COM ) |  |
| TRAINERS | Trainers within local government | |
| WAIKATOBOP-RCA |
Waikato & Bay of Plenty Road Control Authorities |
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| WAIKATOIS |
Council Information Services Managers in the Waikato |
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| WASTEMANAGEMENT |
Waste Management and Recycling Forum |
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| WASTEMIN |
Waste minimisation education/communications and behaviour change discussion Forum |
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| WATERCOUNCIL | Local Authority Environmental Monitoring Group (LAEMG) | |
| WEBCOUNCIL |
Web Managers |
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| WOMENMGRS |
Women Managers in Local Government |
