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WNHT Accountability

Wellington City (Brooklyn) Rate Payer made this Official Information request to Wellington City Council

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From: Wellington City (Brooklyn) Rate Payer

Dear Wellington City Council,

A separate request has been made to you for all sums provided to the Wellington Natural Heritage Trust (WNHT) over the years, whether it be grant, operational cost support, and/or other.

Of those funds provided, please provide a list of all checks and audits performed used to validate the money provided was spent in a manner communicated to WCC, and thereby rate payers?

Please list the amounts provided for what purpose, the amounts of which were validated, the amount unvalidated (the remainder).

Essentially, as rate payers, we are particularly interested in understanding where our money went and whether there has been any accountability to date enforced as to what it was spent on.

Thank you.

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From: BUS: Official Information
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Kia ora,

Thank you for your email dated 2 June requesting information.

Our team will manage your request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 which requires us to provide a decision as soon as possible, but no later than 1 July, being 20 working days of receipt.

The reference number for your request is IRC-8538 (combined with WNHT: Funding provided by WCC)

Please contact us if you have any further questions.

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From: BUS: Official Information
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Attachment IRC 8538 WNHT Funding Accountability.pdf
726K Download View as HTML

Kia ora Wellington City (Brooklyn) Rate Payer
Please see attached response for both funding and accountability request
on WNHT. 
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Asha Harry

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From: Wellington City (Brooklyn) Rate Payer

Dear BUS: Official Information,

Thank you for that information.
We accept that you have provided funding purpose, and the process by which accountability is determined, while not providing notes on the accounting process.

For example, there is an entry for Aerial boneseed control.
However, no resident in the area remembers any crop dusting, helicopter or drone activity taking place over that property in any prior year.
There also seems to be far more activity recorded and paid for than number of visits to the property. Unless you are paying far above market rate, and a single visit is paid for at about 7k/visit. Even 3.5k per visit would be questionable value for tax payers.

We will prepare another inquiry into asking for notes rationale and decisions as to why a *private* property - trust or not - is being funded with tax payer money, to the tube of 35k one year and over 40k another year. These are extraordinary amounts, clearly not proportionately distributed to other private properties in Wellington.

Yours sincerely,

Wellington City (Brooklyn) Rate Payer

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From: Wellington City (Brooklyn) Rate Payer

Dear BUS: Official Information,

Addendum
I would like to add the following to my earlier request.

The current action plan from the Wellington Natural Heritage Trust (available here: https://www.wnht.org.nz/site/assets/file...) notes a total of 53 days of contributed activity per year. Assuming a standard 8-hour workday, this equates to approximately 424 hours.

As a ratepayer—along with many others—I would appreciate clear documentation of the decision-making and evidence that supports why Wellington City Council is effectively paying $100 per hour to manage what is, in substance, a private property. This level of expenditure seems difficult to justify in the current economic climate, where many households are under pressure.

Yours sincerely,

Wellington City (Brooklyn) Rate Payer

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Wellington City Council

Kia ora Wellington City (Brooklyn) Rate Payer.
Thank you for your email dated 11 July requesting information.

Our team will manage your request under the Local Government Official
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The reference number for your request is IRC-8736.

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Asha Harry

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