15 September 2025
Al Ross
[FYI request #32054 email]
Tēnā koe Al,
Request for Information – Local Government Official Information and Meetings
Act (LGOIMA) 1987
We refer to your official information request dated 18 August 2025, for
information on the usage, evaluation, and value analysis of AI Assistants used by
Hutt City Council. Specifical y, you requested:
On the Council's website, there are 13 AI agents listed:
HCC Meeting Minute Drafting AI Assistant HCC Project Status Brief AI
Assistant HCC Project Brief AI Assistant HCC Project Initiation Document AI
Assistant HCC C&E Plan AI Assistant HCC FAQ Drafting AI Assistant HCC
Social Media Post Drafter HCC Consultation Analysis AI Assistant
(incomplete) HCC Memo/Report Peer Review AI Assistant Traffic
Management Plan Review AI Assistant Job Description/Job Advert Drafting
AI Assistant Internal Communications AI Assistant Workshop Planning AI
Assistant
Please provide:
1. Usage analytics on each these agents
2. Any other quantitative information about them
3. Any quantitative evaluation and/or feedback about them
4. Analysis or commentary on the resources to create them compared to
the value they generate
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Private Bag 31912, Lower Hutt 5040
/huttcitycouncil
0800 488 824
[email address]
www.huttcity.govt.nz
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Answer:
Before responding to your request, it is important to note that Council is not
required to create new information to respond to requests under the LGOIMA.
Where information is not already held in a documented form, we are unable to
provide it. This includes requests for analysis or commentary that would require
forming an opinion or compiling new datasets.
Council does not hold formal quantitative evaluations or structured feedback for
each individual AI Assistant. However, survey data is available that reflects
overal usage of AI tools (such as ChatGPT and Copilot), rather than specific
Assistants.
Table 1 below provides the number of users with access to each Assistant, based
on system access data. In some cases, Assistants are open access and do not
have user-specific tracking, which is noted in the table.
Some usage numbers may appear unchanged or low. This may be due to
Assistants being retired, replaced with newer versions, or currently under review
or development. These factors affect how usage is recorded and should be
considered when interpreting the data.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this
response. Information about how to make a complaint is available at:
How to
make a complaint | Ombudsman New Zealand, or freephone 0800 802 602.
Please note that this response to your information request may be published on
Hutt City Council’s website:
Proactive releases | Hutt City Council.
Ngā mihi nui
Rebekah van der Splinter
Senior Advisor, Official Information and Privacy
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Table 1: User Access to AI Assistants for the period December 2024 to September 2025
ACT
Assistant name
Number of users
Uses
HCC Resource Consent Respond to Inquiry Assistant
7
45
MEETINGS
HCC Thematic Analysis Assistant
11
46
AND
HCC FAQ Drafting Assistant
75
76
HCC Communications & Engagement Plan Assistant
28
205
HCC Social Media Content Drafting Assistant
42
784
HCC Project Initiation Document Assistant
20
28
INFORMATION
HCC Project Status Report Assistant
20
49
HCC Project Brief Assistant
21
44
OFFICIAL
HCC Meeting Minutes Assistant
5
61
HCC Memo/Report Reviewing Assistant
66
147
HCC Traffic Management Plan Assistant
4
38
HCC Job Description & Job Advertising Assistant
15
73
GOVERNMENT
HCC BWoF Renewal Application Vetting Assistant
5
117
HCC Workshop Plan Drafting Assistant
6
16
LOCAL
Strategy & Engagement's Panui Drafting Assistant
Open access
49
THE
HCC Building Consent Vetting Assistant
6
128
HCC Building Consent Respond to Inquiry
5
176
UNDER
RELEASED
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Assistant name
Number of users
Uses
ACT 1987
HCC Custom AI Assistant Planner
Open access
13
HCC Council/CLT Presentation Coach
11
39
HCC Prompting Method Selection Advisor
24
15
HCC AI Usage Guidance Assistant
5
27
AND MEETINGS
INFORMATION
RELEASED UNDER THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL
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