Kia ora Karen,

Thank you for your email.

I have forwarded this information to the Animal Services Team for their
attention.

Ngā mihi

Victoria Hooper 

Customer Services Officer
Customer Services

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PO Box 5045, Dunedin 9054

New Zealand

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Sent: Friday, March 29, 2024 5:34 AM

To: [Dunedin City Council request email]

Subject: Official Information request - Information about dog control
matters needed for the upcoming Annual Plan consultation

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Dear Dunedin City Council,

1. In meeting 13 March 2024 Council was advised additional information was
available about Regulatory fees and charges as a consequence of an earlier
December review and benchmarking against other Councils.
Please provide the parts of that additional information that relate to dog
and animal control fees and charges, including a comparison between the
services currently and previously provided to identify the additional
services referred to in the statement in the agenda that “… costs have
increased … due to increased Animal Control after-hours services …”

2. In relation to dog/owner numbers, please provide the following:
a) The total number of registered dogs and the total number of owners with
registered dogs.
b) The number of dogs and owners by suburb. (Please provide this as a
table or spreadsheet to avoid repeating the problems created in 2019 by
using a list format.)
c) The number of dogs classified as working dogs, and the number of owners
with working dogs.

3. Please provide the number of infringement notices issued or
prosecutions taken by the Bylaw clause or section of the Dog Control Act
1996 for registration years ending 2021, 2022, 2023, and the current year
to date.

4. Please provide the full costs of the recent advertising campaign
entitled “Best Friend, Best Behaviour: Tips for Dog Owners”, in adequate
detail for the categories of costs to be separately identified (including
things like the costs of authoring the video scripts, social media,
web-site and FYI copy; purchasing videos and photographs used in the
videos; the social and print media advertising, etc), and identify which
costs were charged to the dog control or the general rates budget.

5. Please provide the income and expenditure for dog control activities
authorised by the Dog Control Act (including amounts received under the
Dog Control Act, and general rate-payer contributions), and general
"Animal Control" activities (that are not dog-related) for the years
2022-2023 and 2023-to date. (The format used to provide this information
in 2019 is suitable.)

This information is needed to prepare submissions for the upcoming Annual
Plan, so please provide it in a timely manner to avoid disadvantaging
those submissions. Given the results of previous Ombudsman investigations,
ignoring the request or refusing the information will be treated as
refusing to provide it because it does not exist.

My preference is for the requested information to be provided by
fyi.org.nz as there is no reason to send it by courier to my home address
as Council has been doing.

Regards,
Karen Anderson

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Kia ora Ms Anderson

 

Please find attached our response to the information request, received on
20 March 2023 via FYI, for information about dog control matters.

 

Ngā mihi

 

Lauren Riddle

Mana Whakahaere Kairuruku / Governance Support Officer
Governance Group       

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