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Integration is the key to successful monitoring.
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Dedicate staff resources for monitoring within the consents team or integrate across the council.
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Be pragmatic and use available skills and knowledge of staff to best effect.
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Link consents and compliance monitoring and reporting with state of the environment and policy/plan effectiveness monitoring and reporting.
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Specify linkages through a monitoring strategy.
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Establish effective feedback loops so consents, compliance and complaints monitoring can provide useful information for other monitoring activities (such as for RMA plan effectiveness and Local Government Act 2002).
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Consider linking RMA consents and compliance monitoring with other council functions that also require monitoring for example, under the Building Act 2004.
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Document systems and procedures (such as who does what, when, how and why) because of staff turnover.
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Link to Ministry for the Environment two-yearly reporting requirements (RMA Survey).
