Kia ora T Dobbie

I acknowledge receipt of your email below.

Before we progress your request, could you please clarify the timeframe you are after? For example, are you wanting the total expenditure from the last financial year? Or the last 5 financial years etc?

Once I have this clarification from you I will be able to action your request.

Kind regards
Ella

Ella Sullivan
Official Information Advisor
Office of the Mayor and Chief Executive

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Hi T Dobbie

I am following up on my email below. Are you able to refine your request as stipulated below?

Kind regards
Ella

Ella Sullivan
Official Information Advisor
Office of the Mayor and Chief Executive

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Kia ora T Dobbie,

Thank you for your email.

We are handling your request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA). We have forwarded it to the appropriate Christchurch City Council staff, and we will provide a response or update within 20 working days of the date we received your request. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

If you have not had a reply withing 10 working days please contact us by email at [Christchurch City Council request email]

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 me so that these can be taken into account.

Kind regards,
Ella

Ella Sullivan
Official Information Advisor
Office of the Mayor and Chief Executive

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Kia ora T Dobbie

I refer to your request regarding the Expenditure costs to Jacobs consultants.

You will find attached a spreadsheet with the expenditure for the last 10 years.

The second part of your request, relating to the type of work consulted on, is refused under LGOIMA s17(f) - the information cannot be found without substantial collation or research. The information provided is a total relating to many invoices over the 10 years. To determine the type of work consulted on would require staff having to manually check each invoice, which would take an excessive amount of time.
If you are able to refine this part of your request, then we may be able to reconsider our decision.

You have the right to request the Ombudsman to review this decision. Complaints can be sent by email to [email address], by fax to (04) 471 2254, or by post to The Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.

Kind regards
Ella

Ella Sullivan
Official Information Advisor
Office of the Mayor and Chief Executive

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