To whom it may concern,

I am requesting copies of, or a summary of, the conflict of interest statements submitted by the following employees and contractors of Wellington City Council (WCC) and Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC).

Specifically, I am seeking records for the years they were employed or contracted, where their conflict of interest statements indicate or do not indicate they are members of the Wellington Natural Heritage Trust (WNHT) and/or noted any proposed or actual recusals from activities - especially rural policy advice, design, leading, propagating, or requests lodged for funding of these and other trusts to which they are trustees/board members.

Please provide this information for as many years as records are available. The individuals of interest:

Chris Cosslett
Tim Park
Clive Antsey
Chris Horne
Colin Ryder

For expediency's sake, we note that
- LGOIMA permits ask about govt organisations and contractors,
- the trusts the individuals belong to are already published either on professional online resumes and/or the trusts themselves,
- the requests for funding for the WHNT from the environmental grant funds, and by whom, are published on WCC's websites,
- documents containing the names of individuals on the list and their role within the development of district planning as they were presented to commissioners are also published by WCC

therefore conclude that the totality of the information requested is already either in the public domain and not private information or within your remit to make available.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Wellington City (Brooklyn) Rate Payer

Dear Leonie and Julie,

Thank you for your response.
I appreciate your finding some records regarding Chris Cosslett's employment.

However, I refer you to Tim Park’s LinkedIn public profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parkecology/), where he lists employment as Senior Biodiversity Coordinator at Greater Wellington Regional Council from September 2006 to June 2014 (7 years, 10 months).

Could you please recheck your records for the above employment contract and, most importantly, his conflict of interest statements?

Additionally, while I have no current evidence of other trustees working for GWRC, the absence of Tim Park in your initial search suggests that an alternative search method—one that locates Tim Park's records—might also reveal employment or conflict of interest records for others.

Lastly, regarding Chris Cosslett, if I understood correctly, you found an employment contract but no conflict of interest statement. Should the absence of such be understood to mean no conflicts were declared, and hence no record was kept?

Yours sincerely,
Wellington City (Brooklyn) Ratepayer