We refer to your email dated 29 March 2012.

 

In your email, you request if Hutt City Council opens its meetings with a
prayer.

 

Your request has been processed according to the provisions of the Local
Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.

 

Pursuant to the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act
1987 we advise that your request for information has been granted.  I wish
to advise that Council does not open its meetings with a prayer.

 

Kathryn Stannard
Divisional Manager, Secretariat Services

Hutt City Council, 30 Laings Road, Private Bag 31912, Lower Hutt 5040, New
Zealand
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Dear Alex

I acknowledge receipt of this email which was received today.

Your request is being processed according to the provisions of the Local
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Yours sincerely

Lyn Herriot
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harris [mailto:[3][FYI contact email]]
Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2012 2:52 p.m.
To: Contact
Subject: Local Government Official Information and Meetings request: Does
Hutt City Council open its meetings with a prayer?

    Dear Hutt City Council,

    As you may have read recently, the Whanganui District Council
    abolished its opening prayer after a complaint was made to the
    Human Rights Commission. I'm interested in learning how widespread
    this practice is, so I'd like to request the following information
    under the LGOIMA:

    * Does the Council open its meetings with a prayer?
    * If the answer to the above is "yes", then I'd like a copy of that
    prayer (or examples, if more than one is used), when the practice
    was first established, whether the council has considered
    abolishing it in the wake of the Whanganui decision, and any advice
    the council may hold on the prayer's compatibility with both the
    Human Rights Act 1993 and Bill of Rights Act 1990.

    I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about
    this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the
    [4]fyi.org.nz website.

    Yours faithfully,

    Alex Harris

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Kathryn Stannard
Divisional Manager, Secretariat Services

Hutt City Council, 30 Laings Road, Private Bag 31912, Lower Hutt 5040, New
Zealand
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From: Catrina Millar
Sent: Monday, 18 June 2012 9:10 a.m.
To: Kathryn Stannard
Subject: FW: Regional Council Representation Review

 

FYI

 

From: Max and Saria Shierlaw [3][mailto:[email address]]
Sent: Saturday, 16 June 2012 2:57 p.m.
To: Ray Wallace
Cc: David Bassett; Tony Stallinger
Subject: Regional Council Representation Review

 

Hi Ray,

 

Unless I hear otherwise from you I will be submitting a notice of motion
to the June 28^th Council meeting seeking approval for HCC to make a
submission on this review.

 

I will propose that the thrust of the submission be that representation
per head of population be the same for the rest of Region as they have
proposed for the Wairarapa. This would probably double the number of
Councillors for Lower Hutt so I would propose six sub wards be established
for Lower Hutt, that have the same boundaries as HCC, and one Regional
Councillor for each sub ward be elected.

 

Regards,

 

Max

 

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