Kia ora Victoria – thanks for that.

 

Elaine – will I leave it with you to respond to the requestor along the lines of there has been no such thing as the Mayor’s “Commissioner for the LGBT community"

 

Cheers,

 

Eddie

 

 

Kia ora Eddie

 

Nothing to do with the panels. Fale was on the Rainbow Communities Advisory Panel before the 2022-2025 term but a role “Commissioner for the LGBT community” as far as I understand, does not exist.

 

Ngā mihi

Victoria

 

 

Hi Victoria,

 

Could I run the below LGOIMA request by you please – nothing from Mayor Wayne Brown or our office but thought perhaps it may be Panels related from previous terms if any of the request might mean anything to you?

 

Thanks for scanning through and copying in Elaine who the LGOIMA has been assigned to.

 

Regards,

 

 

Eddie Walls | Business Support
Office of the Mayor

[mobile number]

Auckland Council, Level 27, Te Wharau o Tāmaki Auckland House, 135 Albert Street, Auckland
Visit our website: www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

 

 

 

 

 

Tēnā koe Eddie

 

As far as I am aware, there has been no such thing as the Mayor’s “Commissioner for the LGBT community" this term.

 

Perhaps it may have been a previous mayoral term?

 

I note that Mr Lesa’s referenced application to be a ‘Complaints Assessment Commissioner’ at the Real Estate Authority, was written in 2021: https://fyi.org.nz/request/32150-fale-andrew-lesa-v3#incoming-130788 (so another department in Auckland Council may hold the information)

 

 

Is this panels related?

 

 

Kia ora Josh and Eddie

 

We have a LGOIMA request about Fale Andrew Lesa

 

Elaine Tunai-Po is the business partner assigned to this information request

 

Could you please arrange for the expert response?

 

Details of the request can be found in the email below

 

Please consider:

 

• How much information is readily available and likely to be within the scope of the request?

 

• If it will take you an unreasonable amount of time to research and collate this much information, then we can assist the requester to narrow their request into something more manageable.

 

• Please contact us within 3 days to discuss the request if you feel that the request requires refinement or should be directed to a different team for an answer.

 

• If you think that releasing some of this information is likely to cause harm, please explain what that harm is, we will advise you if you have good grounds to withhold this information.

 

Please direct any further questions to [Auckland Council request email] and return the required information for the attention of Elaine by 08/10/2025

 

Ngā mihi,

 

 

Edithmaria

The Privacy and LGOIMA team

Auckland Council

 

 

 

Dear Auckland Council,

I am writing in relation to information obtained through an Official Information Act request to the Real Estate Authority (Our Ref: C64569), regarding Mr. Fale Andrew Lesā.

According to his application, Mr. Lesā claims that he "was appointed by the Mayor of Auckland as a Commissioner for the LGBT community."

I would appreciate it if you could please confirm whether this statement is accurate.

Additionally, I would like to request the following information:

The Terms of Reference for the "Commissioner for the LGBT community"

Details of the public call for expressions of interest for this role — how was the recruitment process conducted?

A copy of Mr. Lesā’s appointment letter.

An outline of the recruitment process for committee members, including:

What documentation or qualifications applicants were required to submit.

The assessment or selection criteria used.

Yours faithfully,

john luke

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