28 August 2024
File Ref: IRC-6883
Chris McCashin
[FYI request #27971 email]
Tēnā koe Chris
Thank you for your email of 8 August 2024, to Te Kaunihera o Pōneke | Wellington City
Council (the Council), requesting the following information:
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Please provide a breakdown of Wellington City Council's "infrastructure"
spending for the financial years 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023 and
2023/2024 (actual and projected), categorized into the following areas:
a) Water supply
b) Wastewater
c) Stormwater
d) Transportation - broken into categories - roads and cycleways to be
separated
e) Parks and open spaces
f) Community facilities
g) Any other significant infrastructure categories
•
For each of the above infrastructure categories, please provide the
corresponding revenue obtained from targeted rates for the same financial
years.
•
Can you also provide what is the current amount of money that Wellington
City Council is borrowing per day for OPEX and CAPEX for the years 2020 -
2024 broken down into annual borrowing, monthly borrowing and daily
borrowing if that makes sense.
Your request has been considered under the Local Government Of icial Information and
Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA).
The information you have requested is available in the annual reports for those years.
Annual reports for 2020/2021 to 2022/2023 are available on the Council’s website at:
Annual Reports - Plans, policies and bylaws - Wellington City Council
The annual report for the 2023-24 financial year is stil being prepared. It wil be available
later this year on the Council’s website.
The annual borrowing amount is given in the Disclosures in Volume 2 of the annual reports.
As the information you have requested is already available to you, or wil soon be, through
the Council’s public website, we must refuse your request to be provided with it, under
section 17(d) of the LGOIMA.
There is too much variability to measure borrowing by month or day, so these values are
unavailable; accordingly, the provisions of section 17(g) of the LGOIMA apply to monthly and
daily borrowing figures. Under section 17(g), we are refusing this part of your request on the
grounds that the information is not held by the Council and we have no reason to believe it is
held by another party.
You have the right, by way of complaint under section 28(1) of the LGOIMA, to request an
investigation and review of the Council’s decision to withhold information by the
Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Nāku noa, nā
Susan Sales
Senior Advisor Of icial Information
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