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Mr Riley

 

I refer to your email of 1 May.

 

Your request in its current form will be very difficult to meet without
substantial collation or research.  The issue is that there are, I am
told, 20,000 transactions covering the 2023/2024 financial year involving
some 1,700 suppliers.  Though I am sure many of the items will not have
any confidentiality issues, the only way to determine that is to consider
each of the transactions individually.  That could well take a
considerable amount of time, using a people resource that in our
organisation, is simply not available.  This is regardless of whether
there is agreement to meet payment of all costs involved.

 

Unless your request is amended, we may have to refuse it under section
17(f) of LGOIMA which applies where the information cannot be made
available without substantial collation or research.

 

Please let me know urgently whether you are prepared to amend or clarify
your request and if so, how.

 

It maybe that the request is restricted to expenditure of items for
amounts $30,000 or above.  Also, whether there is agreement about meeting
any costs charged based on our Information Cost Policy which is set at
$100 per hour.

 

Once we know if there is any adjustment, that may enable us to define what
extension might be necessary.

 

We await your reply.

 

 

Tony Quirk

District Secretary

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Phone:   03 520 7400 | DDI:  03 520 7429

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