Kia ora Mark,

 

Thank you for your request for information about lawn care costs of the
green spaces on Cambridge Terrace, Devonport.

 

We have attached an information sheet on our processes and requirements
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.

 

We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your request was received. This
will be by 25.2.2025.

 

If you have further questions please feel free to contact Amanda Pillay 
([1][email address]) on 09 301 0101, quoting
reference 8140015319.

 

 

Ngā mihi,

The Privacy and LGOIMA team

Auckland Council

 

From: Mark <[FOI #29855 email]>
Sent: Friday, 24 January 2025 10:23 am
To: Official Information <[email address]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Official Information request - Lawn care costs

 

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Dear Auckland Council,

I wish to request some information under the local government official
information act. The reason I wish to obtain this is I am becomingly
increasing frustrated at the amount of ongoing care and maintenance that
is taking place at public playing fields close to where I live. Excessive
would be an understatement. For example, in the same week a field might be
mowed twice, whilst at the same time have what seems like lawn seeds
dropped to regrow the grass, which would only then be mowed up! As well as
the mowing, someone will come along and start using a weed eater on an
area where there is nothing that to weed eat! Your contractors have got to
a point where they are mowing and weed eating for the sake of it, because
nothing has grown since the last time they were on location, and if it has
it can only be by at couple of mm’s at most! They are now coming along
everyday of the week.

The noise coming from this ongoing care and maintenance is 1 thing but, I
can only imagine the money which is once again being wasted by the Council
and then being burdened onto the rate payers.

Please provide a line item breakdown for each day from the start of this
current financial year to date which shows the following:

Type of work undertaken - I.e. weed eating, lawnmowing, seeding, trimming
Cost
Date of work

I would like to gain this information for both the Rugby playing field
which is based on Cambridge Terrace, Devonport and also the Devonport
Domain, which is also based on Cambridge Terrace.

Please also factor into this request any work that is undertaken on the
berms that are located opposite the Rugby playing field which are outside
the bowling club . Please can you also advise what the earliest time is
that your contractors from Ventia are permitted to start, as there was a
contractor who decided last week that it was okay to start at 5:45 a.m. in
the morning with his weed eater. He subsequently used said weed eater to
cut the berm and they leave the grass clippings splayed all over the road
and footpath.

Yours faithfully,

Mark

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