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-----Original Message-----
From: "Alex Harris" <[email address]>
Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2012 9:56 p.m.
To: "LGOIMA requests at Tauranga City Council" <[email address]>
Subject: Local Government Official Information and Meetings request:
Tauranga Council Prayer

Dear Tauranga 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
fyi.org.nz website.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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 Hello Alex

In response to your LGOIMA request to the question  Does the Council open
its meetings with a prayer?

 Tauranga City Council does not opening its meetings with a prayer apart
from the Tangata Whenua/TCC Committee in which a kaumatua opens the
meeting with a karakia of their own choice.  

Regards Yvonne 

Yvonne Tatton
Manager: Democracy Services/Sister Cities Liaison
Tauranga City Council
07 577 7093
Fax:: 07 577 7153

 
-----Original Message-----
From: "Alex Harris" <[email address]>
Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2012 9:56 p.m.
To: "LGOIMA requests at Tauranga City Council" <[email address]>
Subject: Local Government Official Information and Meetings request:
Tauranga Council Prayer

Dear Tauranga 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
fyi.org.nz website.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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