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Kia ora Annabelle

 

As per your Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act request
dated 26 June, please find the answers to your questions below and also
attached:

 

Can you please provide evidence and outcomes of all community engagement
on the Wyndham-Edendale cycle track which has led to the Waihopai Toetoe
Community board deciding to move ahead with this project. The Waihopai
Toetoe CB has not given final go ahead for this project. The community
board has approved an investigation into whether it is feasible to have a
track between Edendale and Wyndham.

For each engagement please include the date and location, how public
opinion was gathered and who gathered it, the number of people that
engaged, and the number of people that support the construction of the
track. Also if available, how many are children from the local schools.

 

Final concept plan Edendale       December 2005               Venture
Southland staff

Edendale meeting                         17 November 2014         Venture
Southland staff     

Crank Up day                                  28-29 January 2023       
Waihopai Toetoe CB members

Te Ao Mārama                               3 April
2023                      Boffa Miskell, staff

                                                          26 July
23                          Boffa Miskell, staff

Crank Up day                                  27-28 January 2024       
Waihopai Toetoe CB members

Wyndham A & P day                     2 December 2023            Waihopai
Toetoe CB members

Wyndham Open day                     24 November 2023         Waihopai
Toetoe CB members                                       

Drop in session Edendale            12 June                            
Waihopai Toetoe CB members, staff, Boffa Miskell                   

Drop in session Wyndham          12 June                            
Waihopai Toetoe CB members, staff, Boffa Miskell

 

The above sessions were conversations and so definitive numbers of
attendees and of those who supported the track were not gathered.

                            

Make it stick                                  
June-July                           Online

Boxes for survey forms at following locations

The Grocer Woodlands

Mokotua Store

Tokanui Store

Fortrose café

Wyndham Four Square

Edendale Dairy

Wyndham Library

Farm Source Wyndham

PGG Wrightson Wyndham

Vet Co Edendale

Edendale Takeaway

Fonterra

 

The above engagement has just finished and the material from it has not
yet been collated.
Did community engagement include informing those who submitted feedback of
the cost of the track?               The cost of the track has not been
established. The only way to find out the cost of the track is to put it
out to the market for tender. The project is not at that stage yet.

 

Has contact been made with all rate payers in the ward to ask if they want
this track constructed? No contact has been made with any rate payer to
ask if they want the track constructed. We are currently doing community
engagement and have asked the following questions:

 

Do you live in the CB area?                                     
                             Yes/No

Do you support the development of the multi use track?              Yes/No

Would you use the track?                                        
                             Yes/No

 

Have all rate payers been informed of the cost of this track?        The
cost of the track has not been established.

 

Have all rate payers been informed of how this track will be paid for
including what new loans will be acquired and what level of reserves will
be used along with costs of maintenance? None of these decisions have been
made, however in the LTP funding options listed are reserves, external
funding, loan.

Please also provide details of all consultation reports completed on the
proposed track including cost estimates and an itemised account of the
money spent on this project to date.

 

As attached and below:

 

Reports to the Wahopai Toetoe community board re: project

 

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Itemised amount spent on project to date.

 

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Ngā mihi

Louise

 

 

 

Louise Pagan
Strategic Communications and
Engagement Manager
Southland District Council
PO Box 903
Invercargill  9840
P: 0800 732 732
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From: Annabelle <[8][FOI #27401 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2024 9:20 pm
To: General <[9][Southland District Council request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Wyndham-Edendale cycle track -
evidence of community support

 

This message is from an external sender

Dear Southland District Council,

Dear Southland District Council,

Can you please provide evidence and outcomes of all community engagement
on the Wyndham-Edendale cycle track which has led to the Waihopai Toetoe
Community board deciding to move ahead with this project.

For each engagement please include the date and location, how public
opinion was gathered and who gathered it, the number of people that
engaged, and the number of people that support the construction of the
track. Also if available, how many are children from the local schools.

Did community engagement include informing those who submitted feedback of
the cost of the track?

Has contact been made with all rate payers in the ward to ask if they want
this track constructed?

Have all rate payers been informed of the cost of this track?

Have all rate payers been informed of how this track will be paid for
including what new loans will be acquired and what level of reserves will
be used along with costs of maintenance?

Please also provide details of all consultation reports completed on the
proposed track including cost estimates and an itemised account of the
money spent on this project to date.

Yours faithfully,

Annabelle Stanley.

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