Does the MacKenzie District Council open its meetings with a prayer?

Alex Harris made this Official Information Act request to MacKenzie District Council

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, MacKenzie District Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by Make a complaint to the Ombudsman

From: Alex Harris

17 April 2012

Dear MacKenzie District Council,

As you may have read recently, the Whanganui District Council
abolished its opening prayer after a complaint was made to the
Human Rights Commission. I'm interested in learning how widespread
this practice is, so I'd like to request the following information
under the LGOIMA:

* Does the Council open its meetings with a prayer?
* If the answer to the above is "yes", then I'd like a copy of that
prayer (or examples, if more than one is used), when the practice
was first established, whether the council has considered
abolishing it in the wake of the Whanganui decision, and any advice
the council may hold on the prayer's compatibility with both the
Human Rights Act 1993 and Bill of Rights Act 1990.

I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about
this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the
fyi.org.nz website.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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From: Alex Harris

29 May 2012

Dear MacKenzie District Council,

A response to this request was due over a week ago and it is now
late. Will I be receiving a response anytime soon?

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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Alex Harris left an annotation (26 June 2012)

A complaint has now been lodged with the Ombudsman

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Alex Harris left an annotation ( 6 August 2012)

Apparently the original request was not recieved; the Council will apparently be responding "shortly". If its 20 working days from it being drawn to their attention by the Ombudsman, then a response will be due by 20 August.

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