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The 2016 Invercargill civic honours recipients: Marion Miller, left, John Husband, Karen Purdue and Reginald McLeod. The Invercargill City Council has not made awards since.
The Invercargill City Council may reinstate the civic honours system that has been dormant for seven years.
Between 1984 and 2016 the council bestowed awards on 73 people for their community service.
The awards were initially made annually, then every three years, and then fell away entirely.
Now council staff have suggested the practice resume.
Strategy, policy and engagement manager Rhiannon Suter proposed in a report prepared for the full council meeting on August 22 that the next awards could be made next year.
She recommended the areas of recognition be “evolved’’ and the starting point be the contributions to the four wellbeing pillars the council had adopted:
- Social wellbeing – including youth activities, social welfare, educational services and community affairs.
- Cultural wellbeing – including cultural services, religious affairs and recreation.
- Economic wellbeing.
- Environmental wellbeing.
Suter recommends the process to advertise and attract applications should be reviewed to look for improvements.
The council’s existing Community Wellbeing Fund subcommittee could receive and consider the nominations with Mayor Nobby Clark, who has automatic delegation on all committees.
Suter estimated $3000 would cover advertising, promotion, venue hire and catering for the awards ceremony.
The most recent recipients were artist, musician, broadcaster and former Anderson Park Art Gallery curator John Husband; longstanding Environment Southland councillor and community volunteer Marion Miller; Rotary board member and community volunteer Karen Purdue and Salvation Army, Hospice and Pirates Rugby Club volunteer Reginald McLeod.
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