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27 September 2024
Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc
[FYI request #28168 email] Dear Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc,
OFFICIAL INFORMATION REQUEST I refer to your official information request dated 24 August 2024 for information relating to affordable
homes meeting 24 September 2020.
We have decided to grant your request in part, namely information which relates to
Question 1.
Please provide details of who Nicholas Chan is to the council and provide the financial modelling
that was utilised. Question 2: Please confirm the date this document was established with the
$7,780,000 figure. Question 3: Please provide the supporting documentation that provided the
modelling to reach the value of $7,780,000. Question 4: Please advise how many residential lots
the $7,780,000 figure was to support, i.e. at 50 lots that would account for $155,600 per lot or
$178,940 incl GST. Question 5: Teitei Drive was apparently not a considered site at the time of the
Sep 2020 Zoom meeting; Please provide the financial modelling for Teitei Drive that was used to
support CIP funding requests and the supporting documentation.
However, it will take us some time to prepare this information for release. We will send you that
information by 11 October 2024.
We have also decided to refuse your request for information which relates to
Question 6: (a) When
was it decided, (b) who decided, (c) what documents reflect; the change from this model to gifting
the land, or selling the land at cost (for servicing), to Kāinga Ora and Question 7: When did this
scenario become a no go (as Red put it) and please provide documents to support under section
17(g) of the LGOIMA Act 1987 information requested is not held by the local authority and would
need to be created in order to respond to your request. There is no obligation on Council to create
information in order to respond.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
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Yours Sincerely
Maggie Flonk
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT MANAGER
