Funding of $400k to Te Ara Hou Kennedy Bay Ltd July 2020
S C McKee made this Official Information request to Waikato Regional Council
The request was successful.
From: S C McKee
Dear Waikato Regional Council,
Councillor Dennis Tegg announced on 24th July 2020 that Waikato Regional Council has allocated $390,038 over four years to Te Ara Hou.Kennedy Bay Ltd.
( https://teggtalk.wordpress.com/2020/07/2...)
Please provide a copy of the application and all supporting documentation.
Given that the applicant company, Te Ara Hou.Kennedy Bay Ltd , was only registered on 6th May 2020, how did Council verify the applicant's statements of landowner support and public consultation for this application? Please provide documentation.
Yours faithfully,
S C McKee
Waikato Regional Council
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Your submitted request:
Councillor Dennis Tegg announced on 24th July 2020 that Waikato Regional
Council has allocated $390,038 over four years to Te Ara Hou.Kennedy Bay
Ltd. ( https://
teggtalk.wordpress.com/2020/07/24/over-1-million-in-grants-from-waikato-regional-council-to-coromandel-groups-for-predator-control/)
Please provide a copy of the application and all supporting
documentation....... See Attached......
Thank you
Waikato Regional Council
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From: Jennie Cox
Good morning
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request
dated 29 July 2020 for information regarding the application for funding
by Te Ara Hou Kennedy Bay Ltd.
We received your request on 29 July 2020. We will endeavour to respond to
your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 26 July
2020, being 20 working days after the day your request was received. If we
are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an
extension of that timeframe.
Your request is being handled by our Integrated Catchment Services team.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact me. If any additional
factors come to light which are relevant to your request, please do not
hesitate to contact us so that these can be taken into account.
Kind regards
Jennie
Jennie Cox | STATUTORY PROCESSES ADVISOR | Democracy, Community and Services
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From: Jennie Cox
Good afternoon
Councillor Dennis Tegg announced on 24th July 2020 that Waikato Regional
Council has allocated $390,038 over four years to Te Ara Hou.Kennedy Bay
Ltd. (
https://teggtalk.wordpress.com/2020/07/2...)
Please provide a copy of the application and all supporting documentation.
Given that the applicant company, Te Ara Hou.Kennedy Bay Ltd , was only
registered on 6th May 2020, how did Council verify the applicant's
statements of landowner support and public consultation for this
application? Please provide documentation. Yours faithfully, S C McKee
I require clarity for the following please:
Definition of Supporting documentation: - what specifically are you
defining as supporting documentation. Is it reports to the committee,
memos, pre application notes?
For the application that you are seeking, I have been advised that your
request as written, there could be a considerable amount of information to
have to review and without clarification I would be seeking to refuse that
aspect of the request under Section 17 (f) of LGOIMA due to the
substantial collation and/or research.
Clarity from you to define the term “supporting documentation” should
reduce the time and research required to identify information applicable
to your request.
Kind regards
Jennie Cox
Jennie Cox | STATUTORY PROCESSES ADVISOR | Democracy, Community and Services
WAIKATO REGIONAL COUNCIL | Te Kaunihera ā Rohe o Waikato
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From: Jennie Cox
Kia ora
With regard to your request relating to information and details of all
complaints regarding the NHF application and funding of Te Ara Hou Kennedy
Bay Ltd, I would like to advise you that your request has been granted,
subject to the consideration of information that may be withheld to
protect the natural privacy of persons (LGOIMA Section 7(2)(a)).
It will take us some time to prepare that information for release.
We anticipate we will send you the information as soon as possible but in
any event by 17 September 2020.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of
this decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
If you wish to discuss this decision with us, please feel free to contact
me.
Ngā mihi
Jennie
Jennie Cox | STATUTORY PROCESSES ADVISOR | Democracy, Community and Services
WAIKATO REGIONAL COUNCIL | Te Kaunihera ā Rohe o Waikato
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From: S C McKee
Dear Jennie Cox,
Thank you for your replies to my OIA request.
Regarding your request for clarity on "supporting documentation" , I simply would like to see documents that answer my question:
Given that the applicant company, Te Ara Hou.Kennedy Bay Ltd , was only registered on 6th May 2020, how did Council verify the applicant's statements of landowner support and public consultation for this application? Please provide documentation.
Just supply sufficent documentation that describes the process of verification of public consultation and landowner support in this application by Te Ara Hou.Kennedy Bay Ltd. Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
S C McKee
From: S C McKee
Dear Jennie Cox,
Thank you for your email of August 20th. By law, you should normally have responded promptly and by August 25, 2020.
You state in your email "With regard to your request relating to information and details of all
complaints regarding the NHF application and funding of Te Ara Hou Kennedy
Bay Ltd"
You must have got my request muddled up with someone elses. I did not request: " information and details of all complaints regarding the NHF application and funding of Te Ara Hou KennedyBay Ltd"
I requested the following: "Given that the applicant company, Te Ara Hou.Kennedy Bay Ltd , was only registered on 6th May 2020, how did Council verify the applicant's statements of landowner support and public consultation for this application? Please provide documentation.
How did the Council verify the applicant's statements of landowner support and public consultation as required by law? Repeat: I did not ask for details of all complaints about this application.
I have also previously replied to your request for "clarification" of the documents I would like to see under OIA. I replied that I only require sufficient documents to answer my specific question about public consultation for this application.
I hope you can expedite my OIA request that is now legally overdue.
Yours sincerely,
S C McKee
From: Jennie Cox
The attached document referred to in the letter is here:
[1]pdf icon [2]Redactions - Te Ara Hou Kennedy Bay Natural Heritage Fund
Application.pdf
Copy of the report to the committee here:
[3]pdf icon [4]Redactions - Report to Community Restoration Committee -
Public Excluded.pdf
Jennie Cox | STATUTORY PROCESSES ADVISOR | Democracy, Community and Services
WAIKATO REGIONAL COUNCIL | Te Kaunihera ā Rohe o Waikato
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From: S C McKee
Dear Jennie Cox,
The Attached pdf links were broken. = not working.
Please resend so I can open the pdfs thanks.
This is what you sent, but the links were dead!
The attached document referred to in the letter is here:
[1]pdf icon [2]Redactions - Te Ara Hou Kennedy Bay Natural Heritage Fund
Application.pdf
Copy of the report to the committee here:
[3]pdf icon [4]Redactions - Report to Community Restoration Committee -
Public Excluded.pdf
Thanks for your immediate attention to this.
Yours sincerely,
S C McKee
From: Jennie Cox
Kia ora
I am away for the afternoon of Thursday 17 September 2020.
If you have anything urgent that can not wait until Friday 18 September,
please contact my team leader Sarah McLeay
[email address], or the Democracy Services team
[email address].
Otherwise I will respond to your message when I can.
Nga mihi
Jennie
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From: Jennie Cox
Resending documents as requested.
Kind regards
Jennie
Jennie Cox | STATUTORY PROCESSES ADVISOR | Democracy, Community and Services
WAIKATO REGIONAL COUNCIL | Te Kaunihera ā Rohe o Waikato
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