Tēnā koe Max

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL INFORMATION AND MEETINGS ACT 1987: RESPONSE TO REQUEST

Please see attached the response to your information request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act.

Thank you
Lakna Siriwardena

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Shierlaw <[FOI #23521 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 11:07 AM
To: Information Management Team <[Hutt City Council request email]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Official Information request - Lunch held at Wainuiomata during Matariki

Dear Hutt City Council,

Please advise how much the Hutt City Council paid for the lunch held at Wainuiomata during Matariki weekend. This includes payments made to third parties such as Love Wainuiomata relating to this event.

Please also advise whether any Government funding was received for this event.

Please also advise whether this lunch was an invite only function, or whether anyone could turn up. If the former, who issued the invites and on what criteria? If the latter how was the function advertised?

Please also advise how many attended this function.

Yours faithfully,

Max Shierlaw

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Kia ora Max

Thank you for your email of 18 July 2023, in which you ask
"...how much the Hutt City Council paid for the lunch held at Wainuiomata during Matariki weekend. This includes payments made to third parties such as Love Wainuiomata relating to this event".

We advise that the 2023 Matariki lunch event in Wainuiomata was community led, and Hutt City Council did not contribute any money towards it.

As Hutt City Council did not contribute to this event, we are unable to address your further questions relating to other funding sources, event advertising, the invitation criteria or the number of attendees. Accordingly, your request for this information is refused under section 17(g) of the LGOIMA, as the information requested is not held by us and we have no grounds for believing that the information is held by, or more closely connected to the functions of, another agency.

Please note that our response to your information request, including your name, may be published on Hutt City Council’s website.

You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this response. Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.

Ngâ mihi
 
Susan Sales
Ringa Âwhina Tâhûhû ki Te Koromatua | Senior Advisor
Te Kaunihera o Te Awa Kairangi | Hutt City Council, 30 Laings Road, Private Bag 31912, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand
Paetukutuku: www.huttcity.govt.nz

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Shierlaw <[FOI #23521 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 11:07 AM
To: Information Management Team <[Hutt City Council request email]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Official Information request - Lunch held at Wainuiomata during Matariki

Dear Hutt City Council,

Please advise how much the Hutt City Council paid for the lunch held at Wainuiomata during Matariki weekend. This includes payments made to third parties such as Love Wainuiomata relating to this event.

Please also advise whether any Government funding was received for this event.

Please also advise whether this lunch was an invite only function, or whether anyone could turn up. If the former, who issued the invites and on what criteria? If the latter how was the function advertised?

Please also advise how many attended this function.

Yours faithfully,

Max Shierlaw

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #23521 email]

Is [Hutt City Council request email] the wrong address for Official Information requests to Hutt City Council? If so, please contact us using this form:
https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers

If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA page.

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