From mid-2022 to mid-2023, Neilson Strategies, in collaboration with Leftside Partners, conducted the Electoral Area F Governance & Services Study for the Regional District of Nanaimo.
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WORKING WITH
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Neilson Strategies works closely with local governments across British Columbia to address a variety of service, organizational and policy challenges. Our work extends across five main areas of practice: Service Reviews, Local Government Restructure, Strategic Planning and Facilitation, Organizational Design and Policy Analysis.
SERVICE REVIEWS
We guide local governments choosing to collaborate with one another in addressing points to establish services that are both effective and resilient.LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURE
In response to changing local service needs, questions about governance, changes in local demographics, economic shifts, and other factors, a local government may wish to reconsider its existing legal structure or geographic boundary.STRATEGIC PLANNING & FACILITATION
Neilson Strategies regularly facilitates strategic planning sessions for municipal councils, regional district boards, and other public bodies involved in the provision of local services.ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
Neilson Strategies works with senior managers to critically assess organizational structures, regulatory and non-regulatory processes, and specific functions or areas of organizational activity.POLICY ANALYSIS
Issues arise regularly in all areas of local government service and policy. Neilson Strategies works with local decision-makers to assess and understand the issues, identify and evaluate optional courses of action, and present recommendations.LOCAL GOVERNMENT
RESTRUCTURE
In response to changing local service needs, questions about governance, changes in local demographics, economic shifts, and other factors, a local government may wish to reconsider its existing legal structure or geographic boundary. In British Columbia, efforts to examine legal structures and boundaries are undertaken as Local Government Restructure Studies. Neilson Strategies has considerable experience working with local governments, citizen committees and the provincial government on such studies.
ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
Neilson Strategies works with senior managers to critically assess organizational structures, regulatory and non-regulatory processes, and specific functions or areas of organizational activity. Client needs determine the focus of a specific assessment. Such needs may include a consideration of staffing levels, cost-recovery efforts, workplace efficiency, customer service, or other factors.
Projects in Profile
In 2020, Neilson Strategies was retained to assist the Comox Valley Regional District in preparing a Background Study aimed at determining the feasibility of a new Regional Parks Service for the Comox Valley
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