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Wed 11 Aug 2021						Recipient:6112MSZ1
REF: AACMHBe1	      	IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST		Y/R: Community Mtg 10 Jun 2021

Zali STEGGALL OAM MP					E: 
Federal Member for Warringah				M:{61}(4}
AUSTRALIAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES			P: {61}(2)
PO Box 450 MANLY NSW 1655				W: zalisteggall.com.au

Dear Zali					cc	Australian Legislators 

	NZ COUNCILS HAVE ELECTED COUNCILLORS & COMMUNITY BOARDS

	A	NZ Councils elected Community Boards
	B	North Sydney Council 26 Precinct system espoused by Mayor Ted MACK
	C	Volunteer Participation as Community Assets

A	NZ COUNCILS ELECTED COMMUNITY BOARDS

Further to our emails about the Australian research on the Economic Value of 
Volunteers for each state on 15 Jun 2021 and valued in 2013 at $ 25 Billion per 
annum in email 14 July 2021 you may be interested in reviewing how New Zealand 
Councils have elected Community Boards many chaired by elected Councillors

NZ Example 1: Whakatane Council 

1 elected Mayor,10 elected Councillors with 20 elected members for 6 Community
Boards providing multiple committee meetings each month

And these are the On-line committee meeting dates 

July 2021 - 7 committee meetings

Jun 2021 - 8 Committee Meetings

May 2021 - 9 Committee Meetings

Unfortunately all the agendas and minutes of meeting are On-line PDF files that 
have to be downloaded to be read. - none of the minutes are documents that can be 
read On-line by other interested members of those Communities

Compare those On-line PDF minutes with the On-line minutes of an Electronic 
Business [ebXML] Australia meeting nearly 20 years ago on 05 Feb 2002 of the 
Marketing Strategy Work Group chaired by Mark BEZZINA Director of 
Communications, IT and eCommerce at Standards Australia - his changes to the 
draft minutes are included in blue ink !

This is a link to the members and their attendance records of Electronic Business 
[ebXML] Australia which could be used by every Council/Sports Club/Body 
Corporate Committee to show On-line attendance with COVID-19 travel restrictions

For some reason Standards Aus cancelled all other scheduled 2002 ebXML 
Meetings after that 05 Feb 2002 meeting !

NZ Example 2: Selwyn District Council

Another example is Selwyn District Council which has 1 mayor and 12 Councillors 
and over 70 listed Committees with regular meetings and PDF minutes

NZ Example 3: Christchurch City Council

Christchurch City Council has 15 councillors with 7 Community Boards comprising 
52 elected Volunteer members

B	North Sydney Council 26 Precinct system espoused by Mayor Ted MACK

In 1974 Ted MACK was elected as initially as an Alderman and then as Mayor from 
1980-1988 on North Sydney Council and espoused the principles of "Participatory 
Democracy" whereby "Citizens have a right to participate in local precinct issues"

Ted established 26 Precincts in the North Sydney Local Government Area and now 
this Precinct system is under review possibly because North Sydney Volunteers are 
no longer fulfilling all the roles necessary to maintain the value of the Precincts.

As the reports on the "Economic Value of Volunteering" to the 5 State Governments
by Dr Duncan IRONMONGER indicate that a Volunteer hour is now valued at over 
$ 35.00/hr, recent COVID-19 large-scale community shutdowns dictate we must use 
technology to record Volunteer participation as a Community Asset rather than leave 
Communities in perpetual debt under current accounting processes

C	VOLUNTEER PARTICIPATION AS COMMUNITY ASSETS

All Sports Communities, Council Communities and Councils in Australia also have 
extensive Volunteering at regular Committee meetings whereby the minutes record 
the attendees, preparation of reports and actual time spent by Volunteers at these 
committee meetings

These Committee activities should be included as an Asset in the Economic Value of 
that Community

Indeed with repeated COVID-19 outbreaks, many of these meetings may be 
performed On-line or by Zoom meetings hence should be included as Economic 
Contributions 

This issue of the Economic Value of participation in On-line Committees was 
recognised by the foundation members of the Open Interchange Consortium [OIC] at 
the inaugural AGM minutes and members' mandates in 1996

Following that AGM OIC members developed a number of On-line services 
including Electronic Committee Information Management [ECIM]

ECIM was based on research carried out with Hampton School Rugby Old Boys, 
South Sydney Council, South Sydney Chamber of Commerce and a joint-venture 
with the British Standards Institute [BSI] which printed and posted out over 1,000,000
pieces of paper annually to members of over 350 national and international 
committees

The research by OIC members into ECIM included hourly Accreditation credits for 
Electronic Committee Participation which was used by Electronic Business [eBXML]
Australia 2000-2002 for telephone conference meetings around Australia and Hong Kong

Yours sincerely 



Peter AXTENS LLB (Retired)				Clare GARDINER
Chair							Research Co-ordinator
SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK [SAN] 

B: PO Box 517 Neutral Bay Junction 2089			
E: PPWC.rs1@gmail.com
M: {61}(4)4827-8153					
W: www.oic.org/SAN/

Att

A	2014 Report: Value of Volunteering in Tasmania 

LEGEND

EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
SME	Small and Medium size Enterprises
UNFCCC  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]
XML	Extensible Mark-up Language


I	Other Inner West Council Documents that are part of the CSP2036

	a	Strategies
	b	Plans
	c	Statements
	r	Research References

a	Strategies

Is1 Resourcing Strategy [ReS] 2018-2028 Adopted Jun 2018- PDF File		
Is2 Climate + Renewables Strategy [CRS] - draft On-line		
Is3 Employment and Retail Lands Strategy [EaRLS] - PDF File		
Is4 Housing Strategy [HS] - PDF File
Is5 Integrated Transport Strategy [ITS] Adopted 03 Mar 2020 - PDF File
Is6 Asset Management Strategy [AMS]2018-28 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File		
Is7 Workforce Management Strategy [WMS] 2018-22 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File		
Is8 Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Strategy 2018-2022 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File

b	Plans

Ip1 Community Strategic Plan [CSP] 2036 Endorsed Jun 2019 - On-line
Ip2 Economic Strategic Development Plan [EDSP] draft - On-line
Ip3 Long Term Financial Plan 2019-2029 Adopted Jun 2019 - PDF File

c	Statements

It1 Local Planning Statement [LPS]		

r	References

R6 2019-01-19 Adelaide Advertiser: Compensation paid to Slave Owners 1835 - 2015 (180 yrs)

R5 2003-2014 Value of Volunteers to Australian State Economies

R4 2014-11-07 IBM "Blockchain" solution for the Diamond Industry Video

R3 1997 Lessons from a Dozen Years of Group Support Systems Research - 4,000 IBM projects

R2 Sir Evelyn de Rothschild - Director De Beers 1977-1994 & IBM UK 1972-1995

R1 1987-04-23 RUBAC Automatic eProcess Synchronisation Video

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