Money spent on ATMS and projects following
Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc made this Official Information request to Ruapehu District Council
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From: Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
Dear Ruapehu District Council,
Please could you provide us a break down of costs, both incurred, and yet to be invoice, but expected for the following.
1) Total costs for the consultation/implementationof the ATMS and all associated costs since implementation. These are to exclude costs on the already established houses listed on council website https://www.ruapehudc.govt.nz/our-facili...
2) The total costs as above, however directly associated with Teitei Drive
3) A total dollar figure of the money received from grants or subsidies to support the above
4) Please provide a total dollar figure of the possible clawbacks from point 3, for the avoidance of doubt, is there any money that has been paid to RDC that will/may need to be paid back.
5) Is there any record of FTE or man hours spent on the Teitei project from internal staff, or expenses registered against the project that may not be captured under question 1 & 2 that can be provided.
Yours faithfully,
Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
From: Info
Ruapehu District Council
Kia ora,
Please find attached an acknowledgement letter in respect of your request
for official information regarding.
Ngā mihi
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From: Info
Ruapehu District Council
Kia ora
Please find attached a notice of extension of time letter regarding your
LGOIMA request.
Ngā mihi
TeRina
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From: Info
Ruapehu District Council
Please see attached response.
Regards
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From: Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
Dear Info,
We consider your response inadequate and request a response to each individual question and the grounds for refusal.
The public deserve a response and deserve to know how much was spent on each project. This is vital for transparency and to show the public that council is fiscally responsible.
With the budget blow outs for 3 waters, housing and with the cost of living crisis and rate increases, council continue to waste rate payer funds including the suggestion on building a new hub in raetihi. With all considered we believe this to be in the public’s best interest and will be taking this complaint to the ombudsman on 30th September if we don’t receive a satisfactory answer
Yours sincerely,
Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
From: Info
Ruapehu District Council
Good morning,
Thank you for your email below. Councils response dated 29 May 2024 to your OIA request of 1 March 2024 for costs related to Teitei Drive to states: This decision to withhold information is subject to review on completion of negotiations.
Council intends to review this and similar requests after the annual report is released, expected to be around mid-November. The reason being, negotiations by this stage will be complete.
We appreciate your patience in the interim.
Regards
Maggie Flonk
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT MANAGER
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Original Message-----
From: Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc <[FOI #25948 email]>
Sent: Saturday, 31 August 2024 2:17 PM
To: Info <[Ruapehu District Council request email]>
Subject: Re: FYI-request- 25948
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Dear Info,
We consider your response inadequate and request a response to each individual question and the grounds for refusal.
The public deserve a response and deserve to know how much was spent on each project. This is vital for transparency and to show the public that council is fiscally responsible.
With the budget blow outs for 3 waters, housing and with the cost of living crisis and rate increases, council continue to waste rate payer funds including the suggestion on building a new hub in raetihi. With all considered we believe this to be in the public’s best interest and will be taking this complaint to the ombudsman on 30th September if we don’t receive a satisfactory answer
Yours sincerely,
Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
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From: Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
Dear Info,
Morning,
September 18th you wrote us and stated "Councils response dated 29 May 2024 to your OIA request of 1 March 2024 for costs related to Teitei Drive to states: This decision to withhold information is subject to review on completion of negotiations.
Council intends to review this and similar requests after the annual report is released, expected to be around mid-November. The reason being, negotiations by this stage will be complete.
We appreciate your patience in the interim."
Council has since released the Annual Report and we have had confirmation from Kāinga Ora that no negotiations or disputes currently exist with RDC; thus we expect this information to be released in full to ORS
Yours sincerely,
Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
From: Info
Ruapehu District Council
Thank you for your email.
We will endeavour to provide a response to the original request dated 1 March 2024 before close of business 6 December 2024.
We thank you for your patience.
Regards
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From: Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc <[FOI #25948 email]>
Sent: Saturday, 30 November 2024 10:06 AM
To: Info <[Ruapehu District Council request email]>
Subject: RE: FYI-request- 25948
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Dear Info,
Morning,
September 18th you wrote us and stated "Councils response dated 29 May 2024 to your OIA request of 1 March 2024 for costs related to Teitei Drive to states: This decision to withhold information is subject to review on completion of negotiations.
Council intends to review this and similar requests after the annual report is released, expected to be around mid-November. The reason being, negotiations by this stage will be complete.
We appreciate your patience in the interim."
Council has since released the Annual Report and we have had confirmation from Kāinga Ora that no negotiations or disputes currently exist with RDC; thus we expect this information to be released in full to ORS
Yours sincerely,
Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
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From: Info
Ruapehu District Council
Dear Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc,
I refer to your official information request dated 1 March 2024 for Money
spent on ATMS and projects following.
Council has reviewed its earlier decision to withhold information, please
see attached reviewed response.
Regards
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From: Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
Dear Info,
Thanks for your response, however you
1./ failed to include the answer to question 1 regarding total spent on ATMS
2./ question 2 seems quite low considering the response received 1st feb regarding the costs associated with Ree Anderson exceeding $250k, though some of this $250k may be related to question 1 which is yet to be answered.
Yours sincerely,
Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
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