Dear Mr Harris

Official information request for Catholic Schools, tagged positions,
upholding special character and integration agreement.

I acknowledge receipt of your official information request dated 26 March,
2023.

We received your request on Monday, 27 March 2023. We will endeavour to
respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than
27 April, 2023, 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 the board. 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.

Yours sincerely,

Anna Gallien

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From: Mr Harris <[1][FOI #22275 email]>
Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Subject: Official Information request - Catholic schools and tagged
positions and teachers who may not be able or willing to uphold special
character
To: OIA/LGOIMA requests at St Patrick&#x27;s Catholic Sch (Te Awamutu)
<[2][St Patrick&#x27;s Catholic Sch (Te Awamutu) request email]>

Dear St Patrick's Catholic School (Te Awamutu),

I am a NZ citizen and resident. This information requested (further to
my previous request) is in the NZ public interest as it concerns
maintenance of an integration agreement between the State and a Catholic
school/diocese in regard to upholding special character in a school, and
is in the public interest as it's of interest to local Catholics who
want to support the education of Catholic students in their region.

I'm asking for the following:
Position descriptions and person specifications for principal, deputy
principals, and DRS at St Patrick's TA. For clarity, the descriptions
and specifications used when current staff members in these positions
were appointed.

Board meetings minutes for January, February, and March 2023. These are
not online. Also minutes of any special Board meetings in 2023, and
minutes, briefs, notes, and terms of reference, and any other
information, including information not yet written down, for any
subcommittees or working groups set up this year or since November last
year in response to concerns or ideas or requests from school or parish
families.
I believe any privacy concerns can be allayed by redacting private
information.

Board policies regarding relationships between staff or Board members
who are in a reporting relationship.

St Patrick's school / board of trustees (Board) policies/standard
practices regarding:
What steps/process/policy does the Board take or follow if a teacher in
a tagged position is publically known, or known by Board members and/or
school staff, to have/take, or discloses having or taking, an ongoing
practice/belief/position that is in conflict with Catholic doctrine and
practice, meaning that he/she can't be an exemplar of Catholic teaching
and belief and thus is unsuitable, unwilling, or unable to continue to
meet the responsibility or commitment of filling a tagged position at St
Pat's - including such positions/practices/beliefs as an ongoing
same-sex romantic relationship, an attempt to contract a same-sex
marriage, an irregular relationship such as what's often described as
"remarriage", public ongoing dissent in word or deed from an aspect or
aspects of Catholic doctrine/teaching, conversion from the Catholic
religion to another, or to no, religion,or other.
What steps would the board take in addressing with a teacher in this
position their position/practice/dissent?
Have there been any situations in the last six months where the Board or
school has enacted these policies/procedures at St Patrick's?

Yours faithfully,
Mr Harris

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Dear Mr Harris, 
Apologies for the late time of night but we were conscious of this special
day and the weekend ahead, giving assurance we would try to respond to you
by today. 
Ngā mihi,
Anna.