Quarterly and annual reports for Waimea Water from April 1, 2022 to October 30, 2022

Bruce Struthers made this Official Information request to Tasman District Council

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From: Bruce Struthers

Dear Tasman District Council,

Waimea Water is a Council-Controlled Organisation established in November 2018 to manage the construction, operation and maintenance of the Waimea Community Dam.

Waimea Water represents the shared interests of Tasman District Council (majority shareholder) and Waimea Irrigators Ltd to oversee and manage the Waimea Community Dam’s development, construction and operation.

The Waimea Water web site promotes the benefits of this projects, but the most recent quarterly report currently is dated March, 2022. Since Tasman District Council has taken on operational responsibility for the Waimea Dam project, I would expect it to have the quarterly or annual reports for the periods ending June, 2022 and September 2022.

Please provide me a PDF copy of those reports, and have Waimea Water make these reports accessible to the public as soon as possible. Please consider this to be a time sensitive request. The documents must already exist. The dam is still an issue that voters will consider in the October elections.

Yours faithfully,

Bruce Struthers

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Kia Ora Bruce,

I acknowledge receipt of your official information request dated 3 October
2022 for information relating to the quarterly and annual reports for
Waimea Water from April 1 2022 to October 30, 2022.

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than 1 November 2022 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. For
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Yours sincerely,
Carrie

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Kia ora Bruce

I refer to your official information request as acknowledged below.

We have transferred your request because it is believed to be more closely
connected with the functions of Waimea Water Limited (WWL). In these
circumstances, we are required to do so by section 12 of the Local
Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA).

You will hear from WWL with an acknowledgement of the request. Their
e-mail address is [email address]

Nga mihi,

Kate Redgrove

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Kia ora Bruce,

 

We acknowledge receipt of your requests for information, including those
recently transferred from Nelson City Council and Tasman District Council.

 

We can confirm that reporting is provided for in the Statement of Intent
which you can find on Waimea Water Limited’s (WWL) website.  We provide
regular updates to shareholders and the public which you can also find on
our website.   The benefits of the Waimea Community Dam are unchanged and
as described on our website.  We advise our shareholders of any cost
increases as soon as reasonably practicable and not only at the time that
we provide accounts in line with statutory obligations.

 

The March 2022 report is for the 3 Months ended 31/03/2022.  The June 2022
report is the Annual Report and is subject to review by auditors.  Under
the Local Government Act 2002, this report is not due to be provided to
shareholders until 30 November 2022.   The September 2022 quarterly report
is due to be provided to shareholders within two months of the end of the
September quarter ie. by 30 November 2022.   Once the reports have been
released to shareholders they are then made available to the public by
WWL.   Tasman District Council also places a copy or a link to the reports
on its website.

 

We will endeavour to release the Annual Report as soon as we can, although
release is subject to delays with the audit process.  Annual accounts are
not released until reviewed and aligned with the auditor’s requirements,
which is common company practice.

 

In terms of our decision on your requests under the Local Government
Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, these are refused on
administrative grounds under section 17(d) of the Local Government
Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA) – the information will soon
be publicly available. 

 

I must advise you of your right to complain to an Ombudsman if you do not
believe you have been given a reasonable response to your request.  This
right to complain is dealt with in section 27 LGOIMA.

 

Nga mihi

 

 

Kate Redgrove

 

 

 

 

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Bruce Struthers left an annotation ()

Reports published on Waimea Waters web site November 25, 2022.

https://waimeawater.nz/wp-content/upload...

https://waimeawater.nz/wp-content/upload...

There was no direct notification of the publication by any government entity; I happened to discover the reports when I revisited the web site.

The quarterly report is unaudited; early correspondence from Waimea Water stated that an audit by Audit New Zealand was required before the information could be release. This position has apparently changed, with no explaination.

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