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Understanding the nature and extent of our mayor's conflicts of interest

Concerned Ratepayer made this Official Information request to New Plymouth District Council

The request was successful.

From: Concerned Ratepayer

Dear New Plymouth District Council,
Please provide:
A list of all the mayor's current disclosed and undisclosed conflicts of interests.
A list of all the companies, individuals and organisations that the mayor works for or contracts to as a consultant or advisor or in any role other than mayor, either as a sole trader, a company, for a company, or as an individual.
The number of hours/days per week the mayor generally works or has planned to work, or has disclosed that he works or will work, as an advisor or consultant or in any capacity other than as mayor, as disclosed to his colleagues and council staff, and/or recorded via his meetings schedule or weekly calendar since becoming mayor, and/or by any other statement or admission.
Details (times, dates, duration, attendees) of any meetings the mayor has held and plans to hold for non-council business, for personal use, as a consultant or an advisor, and in any capacity other than as mayor in his mayoral office or on council premises, or organised by or via his mayoral personal assistant or secretary (or any other NPDC staff member).

Yours faithfully,
Concerned Ratepayer

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Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for the LGOIMA request below.  We will endeavour to respond to
your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 29 May
being 20 working days after the day your request was received.  If we are
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Regards

Julie Straka
GOVERNANCE LEAD

 

 

 

 

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Dear New Plymouth District Council,
Please provide:
A list of all the mayor's current disclosed and undisclosed conflicts of
interests.
A list of all the companies, individuals and organisations that the mayor
works for or contracts to as a consultant or advisor or in any role other
than mayor, either as a sole trader, a company, for a company, or as an
individual.

The number of hours/days per week the mayor generally works or has planned
to work, or has disclosed that he works or will work, as an advisor or
consultant or in any capacity other than as mayor, as disclosed to his
colleagues and council staff, and/or recorded via his meetings schedule or
weekly calendar since becoming mayor, and/or by any other statement or
admission.

Thank You
Administrator

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From: Julie Straka
New Plymouth District Council

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Please find attached the Council’s response to your LGOIMA request of 1
May 2018.

 

Regards

Julie Straka

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From: Concerned Ratepayer

Dear Julie Straka,

Could you therefore please with us share the ‘Mayor’s diary’ since 1 December 2016?
I wouldn’t expect to have to wait long for this, it should be publicly available and easily shared via a link to the actual calendar (or screenshots for example). .

Yours sincerely,

Concerned Ratepayer

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From: Julie Straka
New Plymouth District Council

Thank you for your email.

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 12 June 2018 being 20 working days after the day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact me on 759 5688. If any additional factors come to light which are relevant to your request, please do not hesitate to contact us so that these can be taken into account.

Regards
Julie Straka
Governance Lead

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From: Paul Drake
New Plymouth District Council

Good Morning Concerned Ratepayer

 

Your request, dated 14 May 2018, is acknowledged.

 

You have requested:

Copy of the ‘Mayor’s diary’ since 1 December 2016.

 

The Council is required to process your request within a 20 working day
period; i.e. on or before 12 June 2018.

 

The Council will endeavour to respond to your request within that period.

 

 

Kind Regards

 

 

Paul Drake

Legal Services Lead

Legal Services Team

 

New Plymouth District Council |Liardet St| Private Bag 2025|New Plymouth
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From: Paul Drake
New Plymouth District Council

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Good Morning Concerned Ratepayer

 

Attached is a copy of the Mayor’s diary for the period 5 December 2016
until 3 June 2018.

 

Names of members of the public (excluding elected officials) have been
redacted.

 

That information is withheld pursuant to section 7(2)(a) of the Local
Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.

 

The Council considers that the public interest in knowing the names of
those private individuals does not outweighed the privacy of those
individuals.

 

If you are not satisfied with Council’s decision then you have the right
to make a complaint to the Office of the Ombudsman.

 

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requests that you include:

•your personal details, including your postal address

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Email:  [1][email address]

 

Fax:  (+64) 04 471 2254

 

Post:  The Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143; or

 

Online:
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Regards

 

 

Paul Drake

Legal Services Lead

Legal Services Team

 

New Plymouth District Council |Liardet St| Private Bag 2025|New Plymouth
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