Rodney Domestic Waste Collection Data
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From: William Foster
Dear Auckland Council (AC),
Please provide any information you hold showing the budgeted revenue from, and expenditure for, annual targeted rate charges for the domestic waste collection service to be provided by AC in Rodney Local Board Area to replace the current private sector collection arrangements. This would be for the part year of 2025/26 and for 2026/27 full year if you have those numbers or any forecasts for them yet.
If the only numbers you have are for a part year, please indicate how many days that covers.
If any expenditure was incurred for the service in 2024/25 please show that.
Please show separately any capital expenditure (e.g. for new plastic bins or equipment) associated with the decision and how much this will add to AC assets (gross and net) at the end of year 2025/26.
Yours faithfully,
William Foster
From: Official Information
Auckland Council
Kia ora William
Thank you for your request for information about Waste Collection
We have attached an information sheet on our processes and requirements
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your request was received. This
will be by 31.07.2025
If you have further questions please feel free to contact Mary-Ann Childs
via reply email to [1][Auckland Council request email] quoting
reference above
Ngā mihi,
The Privacy and LGOIMA team
Auckland Council
From: William Foster <[FYI request #31484 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2025 4:03 pm
To: Official Information <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Rodney Domestic Waste Collection
Data
Dear Auckland Council (AC),
Please provide any information you hold showing the budgeted revenue from,
and expenditure for, annual targeted rate charges for the domestic waste
collection service to be provided by AC in Rodney Local Board Area to
replace the current private sector collection arrangements. This would be
for the part year of 2025/26 and for 2026/27 full year if you have those
numbers or any forecasts for them yet.
If the only numbers you have are for a part year, please indicate how many
days that covers.
If any expenditure was incurred for the service in 2024/25 please show
that.
Please show separately any capital expenditure (e.g. for new plastic bins
or equipment) associated with the decision and how much this will add to
AC assets (gross and net) at the end of year 2025/26.
Yours faithfully,
William Foster
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From: Mary-ann Childs
Auckland Council
Kia ora William,
Please find attached a response to your request for information.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us
again.
You have the right to complain to the Ombudsman if you believe we have not
responded appropriately to your request. Information about how to make a
complaint is available at [1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800
802 602.
Ngā mihi | Kind regards,
Mary-Ann Childs
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From: William Foster
Dear Mary-ann Childs,
Thank you for your response of 4 August.
You advise that Auckland Council budgets are based on waste collection supplier contract areas rather than Local Board boundaries. You also advise that "We therefore work out the costs of providing these services" which "the targeted rates for waste management are used to fund"
it is therefore clear that in working out the costs for budgetary and management control purposes you have to estimate the number of properties collected from and use some assumptions or past data to estimate the costs of providing those services.
Please provide me all with the documentation you hold which shows how you calculated estimated costs and budgets for the 2025/26 year for the contract area (or areas) that cover the Rodney Local Board area together with the calculations used and final budgets (if different from calculation please say and show why). This should include all assumptions used to generate estimates and any values like number of properties or unit costs applied in the calculations including for contingencies. Spreadsheets used may be provided if that is easiest.
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
From: Mary-ann Childs
Auckland Council
Kia ora William,
Thank you for your request for information about a Follow up to your
Budget: Waste Collection request.
I have attached an information sheet on our processes and requirements
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your request was received. This
will be by 08 September 2025.
If you have further questions please feel free to contact Mary-ann Childs
[1][email address] on 09 301 0101, quoting
reference 8140016954.
Ngā mihi,
The Privacy and LGOIMA team
Auckland Council
From: William Foster <[FOI #31484 email]>
Sent: Monday, 11 August 2025 8:10 am
To: Mary-ann Childs <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Final Response - 8140016645
Dear Mary-ann Childs,
Thank you for your response of 4 August.
You advise that Auckland Council budgets are based on waste collection
supplier contract areas rather than Local Board boundaries. You also
advise that "We therefore work out the costs of providing these services"
which "the targeted rates for waste management are used to fund"
it is therefore clear that in working out the costs for budgetary and
management control purposes you have to estimate the number of properties
collected from and use some assumptions or past data to estimate the costs
of providing those services.
Please provide me all with the documentation you hold which shows how you
calculated estimated costs and budgets for the 2025/26 year for the
contract area (or areas) that cover the Rodney Local Board area together
with the calculations used and final budgets (if different from
calculation please say and show why). This should include all assumptions
used to generate estimates and any values like number of properties or
unit costs applied in the calculations including for contingencies.
Spreadsheets used may be provided if that is easiest.
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
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From: Mary-ann Childs
Auckland Council
Kia ora William,
Please find attached a response to your request for information.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us
again.
You have the right to complain to the Ombudsman if you believe we have not
responded appropriately to your request. Information about how to make a
complaint is available at [1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800
802 602.
Ngā mihi | Kind regards,
Mary-Ann Childs
Te Kairuruku Pārongo Matatapu, Ōkawa anō hoki | Privacy and Official
Information Coordinator
Te Wheako ā-Kirihoko me ngā Ratonga Matihiko | Customer Experience &
Digital Services
Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland Council
135 Albert St Auckland CBD
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From: William Foster
Dear Mary-ann Childs,
Thanks you for your response of September 8.
I note that you have chosen to summarise the amounts rather than provide the complete set of documents requested that you used to calculate the budget estimates.
Further to this enquiry could you please provide the waste volume forecasts referred to and the contract unit prices they are multiplied by to estimate the costs you have provided. If these values are not for a single contract for the whole of Auckland, please provide them broken down into the smallest contract areas you use for calculating costs and identify the boundaries of those areas.
Please also provide a complete set of equivalent values for the previous (2024-2025) year for the items in each of the tables provided. Include the waste volume forecast and contract unit prices comparable to those provided in response to the request in the previous paragraph. Provide actuals where available and otherwise budget numbers or estimated values used last year to forecast costs.
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
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