By Email
Shed 39, 2 Fryatt Quay
Pipitea, Wellington 6011
PO Box 11646
11 February 2019
Manners Street
Wellington 6142
T 04 384 5708
File Ref: OIAP-7-9403
F 04 385 6960
www.gw.govt.nz
Gavin Middleton
[FYI request #9288 email]
Dear Mr Middleton
Request for information 2018-398
I refer to your request for information dated 20 December 2018 which was received by Greater
Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) on 20 December 2018. You have requested the following
information:
“
I request any reports, memoranda, emails, meeting notes, presentations, business cases, proposals
or other documents relating to any projected cost savings (or reduction in costs) proposed to arise
with the introduction of new contracts which came into effect in 2018.
I also request any budgets, requests, reports, memoranda, emails, meeting notes, presentations,
business cases, proposals or other documents relating to the actual cost of introducing those
contracts - including, but not limited to, the costs of additional stakeholder/community/public
engagement, staff time and expenses in managing implementation of the changes, consultants
engaged to review or manage the changes or their impact, internally or externally prepared reports,
additional communications or media management or public relations costs, making changes to
routes or timetables following the signing of contracts, and the cost of receiving and managing
feedback on the changes, including the handling of complaints. Where possible, please break down
the costs by the categories identified above, and by any other logical categories.”
It is necessary for GWRC to extend the time available to it to answer your request to
11 March 2019. This decision is made pursuant to section 14 of the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 (the Act) on the basis that:
1. your request is for a large quantity of information and meeting the original 20 working day time
limit would unreasonably interfere with the operations of GWRC.
2. your request necessitates a search through a large quantity of information and meeting the
original 20 working day time limit would unreasonably interfere with the operations of GWRC.
LETTER EXTENDING THE DATE2018-398
3. consultations necessary to make a decision on your request are such that a proper response to
your request cannot be reasonably made within the original 20 working day time limit.
You have the right, under section 27(3) of the Act, to make a complaint about this extension to the
Ombudsman.
Yours sincerely
Greg Pollock General Manager, Public Transport
2018-398
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