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| Received | Subject | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/06/2021 | Council Representation - Maori Wards | Complete | Details |
| 21/05/2021 | Resource consents and leachate reports 180 Ranfurly Road | Complete | Details |
| 20/05/2021 | Decision on Plan Change 28 to the Manawatu District Plan, 7 May 2008. | Complete | Details |
| 20/05/2021 | Draft Development and Financial Contributions Policy 2021 | Complete | Details |
| 20/05/2021 | Psychometric testing in recruitment | Complete | Details |
| 14/05/2021 | Emails relating to maori wards | Complete | Details |
| 14/05/2021 | External emails regarding maori wards | Complete | Details |
| 05/05/2021 | District Housing Statistics | Complete | Details |
| 28/04/2021 | Dog euthannnasia statistics | Complete | Details |
| 28/04/2021 | Maori Ward establishment | Complete | Details |
LGOIMA Request Details: LG2000
Date received: 10/06/2021
Requested information: Council Representation - Maori Wards
Status: Complete
Date responded: 16/06/2021
Response:
LGOIMA 2000 Response
In response to your LGOIMA Request, please see the answers to your questions below.
1. Why Maori are not elected on merit like everyone else?
The change made to the Local Electoral Act provides for Māori representation in local government. The Government acknowledged the importance of having diversity around the council table and this change to the Act forms a part of the Government's commitment to working to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
2. How much will this cost the ratepayers?
There is minimal cost to the ratepayers from the Council undertaking a Representation Review, and this is a process that must be undertaken at least once every six years. The budget set aside in the 10 Year Plan for undertaking a Representation Review is approximately $4,000.
3. How much consultation is already going on with Maori?
Several pieces of New Zealand legislation require Councils to engage with Māori and to involve Māori in decision-making processes. The Council has an ongoing commitment to engage well with Māori and places value on working in partnership with Māori when making decisions for the Manawatū district.
4. How much time and money will be used up for further consultation with Maori (plus time spent on Maori protocol)?
The requirements for working in partnership and engaging well with Māori are factored in at the planning stages in Council's work programmes, as are the resources expected to be needed for this. To provide a breakdown of this information would require a significant amount of officer time, for which an hourly rate of $44.00 for each subsequent half hour (after the first hour) or part thereof, as per the fees and charges would be payable. Please advise if you would be happy to pay for the supply of that information.
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1996
Date received: 21/05/2021
Requested information: Resource consents and leachate reports 180 Ranfurly Road
Status: Complete
Date responded: 22/06/2021
Response:
Please find response below to your request(and also attached zip file with relating documents) The link will expire after 7 days so remember to save any documents you wish to have continued access to. We recommend that this link is opened on a PC.
Under the official information act could I please have the following information held by the Manawatu District Council in relation to:
• Leachate reports (Lowe Environmental) for the past 5 years from areas in and around 180 Ranfurly Road, Feilding (Old Landfill).
The closed landfill reports competed by Lowe Environmental contain historical data. Therefore the last two reports have been attached for your information. Leachate from the landfill is captured and pumped back into the sewer where it is treated. All monitoring results are in accordance with the associated discharge consent.
• Money spent by the Manawatu District Council at 180 Ranfurly Road, Feilding over the past 3 years and what this was spent on
Council has not spent any money on the subdivision at 180 Ranfurly Road. All ratepayer expenditure relating to the landfill has been related to 165 Ranfurly Road.
Proportional costs for reports and future improvements are covered by the development levies from the subdivision at 180 Ranfurly Road.
A summary of the expenditure at the Ranfurly Road Landfill over the previous three years is included below:
2020/21 financial $ 32,245
2019/20 financial $ 97,150
2018/19 financial $174,204
The main expenditure over the next two years will be related to landfill cap maintenance and monitoring. Any stormwater capacity improvements will come through development levies and will not be rate payer funded.
• Resource consent application and approved consent to discharge water into 180 Ranfurly Road, Feilding from a private subdivision, including all communication between the planners / council internal and external via email and any meeting minutes.
The stormwater consent relating to the Landfill consent has been attached for your information. Manawatu District Council is compliant with this consent.
Correspondence relating to the associated stormwater from the subdivision at 180 Ranfurly Road has been attached.
While Manawatu District Council look at the associated increase in stormwater from subdivisions we don't authorise the associated discharge. Horizons Regional Council regulate stormwater within the Manawatu District. Therefore any enquiries relating to stormwater discharges will need to be directed to Horizons.
Communication in relation to the stormwater has been attached (see Email LGOIMA for details)
• Proposed upgrade plans of stormwater within 180 Ranfurly Road and surrounding area
The Concept Design Report Feilding Closed Landfill Stormwater Assessment completed last year looks at the current stormwater system and provides an outline for future options. As a result of this interim assessment the following has been identified:
1. Stormwater bypass line upgraded where required to cope with a 10%AEP event.
2. Energy dissipating structure to mitigate scouring risk.
3. New detention pond(s)
The location of the detention pond and final design has not been finalised at this stage.
Based on the MH Longitudinal Section and contour lines the subdivision at 180 Ranfurly Road is within the same catchment. Regional Council plans actively discourage stormwater from one catchment being diverted into another catchment. Therefore retaining the stormwater in the same catchment is considered appropriate.
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1997
Date received: 20/05/2021
Requested information: Decision on Plan Change 28 to the Manawatu District Plan, 7 May 2008.
Status: Complete
Date responded: 16/06/2021
Response:
Dear Aaron,
Thank you for your Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 request dated 20th May 2021.
As requested, please find the link below.
The link will expire after 7 days so remember to save any documents you wish to have continued access to. We recommend that this link is opened on a PC.
* Decision on Plan Change 28 to the Manawatu District Plan (May 2008)
* Palmerston North City and Manawatu District - Industrial Land Use Planning Review (May 2007)
* Palmerston North City Council and Manawatu District Council - ABC Boundary Change - Morrison Low - Final Report (May 2010).
Please note that the date of the final Morrison Low report was 2010 as opposed to 2008 as requested.
You have also made a request for the community feedback received on the Morrison Low Report. To fulfil this request I have attached a summary of the 212 submissions on the proposed boundary change received by PNCC and MDC in 2011. The Morrison Low report was a key input to this consultation.
Kind regards,
Matthew Mackay
Principal Policy Planner
Encl:
* Decision on Plan Change 28 to the Manawatu District Plan (May 2008)
* Palmerston North City and Manawatu District - Industrial Land Use Planning Review (May 2007)
* Palmerston North City Council and Manawatu District Council - ABC Boundary Change - Morrison Low - Final Report (May 2010)
* Summary of Submissions (Subject Order) on Proposed Boundary Change 2011.
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1998
Date received: 20/05/2021
Requested information: Draft Development and Financial Contributions Policy 2021
Status: Complete
Date responded: 14/06/2021
Response:
Hi John,
Please find attachments in response to your request below.
Kind Regards,
Katie
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1995
Date received: 20/05/2021
Requested information: Psychometric testing in recruitment
Status: Complete
Date responded: 25/05/2021
Response:
Specifically I would like to request the following:
1) The details of any psychometric testing undertaken as part of staff recruitment, training, resourcing or outsourcing — including as undertaken by outside recruitment firms.
We do not use psychometric testing for any aspect of staff employment. We do use other profiling tools, such as Belbin Team Roles and DISC, for training and development purposes within the organisation. We use work sample assessments in our recruiting to provide information about how an applicant might perform in the role.
1a) Details including: the types of psychometric test undertaken; copies of the test(s) themselves; statistical distributions of results; information about the staff tested broken down by role, and including designation decisions made upon receipt of the tests; & organisational guidelines and communication pertaining to the analysis of results.
N/A
1b) Names of all and any companies used to provide psychometric testing, including subcontractors used by outsourced recruitment agencies.
N/A
2) All documents and communications pertaining to: decisions made to introduce or modify psychometric testing regimes; initiate use of results in a particular way or change the use of results.
N/A
2a) All documents and communications pertaining to financial costs of psychometric testing broken down by year, and including names of entities that psychometric testing related transactions occurred within this breakdown.
N/A
3) Any documentation or communication pertaining to any cost/ benefit analysis taken to: introduce; modify; or make decisions taking into account the results of psychometric testing.
N/A
As a time frame for this LGIOMA, please consider the last two years for the substantial bulk of collection and collation. However, as l am hoping to gather some information about the long term trends of psychometric testing, I would like to request that a short contextualising statement/ summary pertaining to the spirit of 2) be included, with the last ten years as the scope of reference.
I would also welcome any other comment or other relevant information that pertains to the spirit of this LGIOMA.
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1993
Date received: 14/05/2021
Requested information: Emails relating to maori wards
Status: Complete
Date responded: 24/05/2021
Response:
Hi Sinead
Please see below a link to the major file of emails requested. Please note that this link will be available for 7 days. We recommend you download and save the files as required.
https://www.mdc.govt.nz/mdc/oversized-files/LVRIKQF0UIR/emails.zip
Attached are emails that we received via or MDC Public Enquiries email address.
Kind Regards,
Katie
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1994
Date received: 14/05/2021
Requested information: External emails regarding maori wards
Status: Complete
Date responded: 24/05/2021
Response:
Hi Sinead
Please see below a link to the major file of emails requested. Please note that this link will be available for 7 days. We recommend you download and save the files as required.
https://www.mdc.govt.nz/mdc/oversized-files/LVRIKQF0UIR/emails.zip
Attached are emails that we received via or MDC Public Enquiries email address.
Kind Regards,
Katie
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1992
Date received: 05/05/2021
Requested information: District Housing Statistics
Status: Complete
Date responded: 12/05/2021
Response:
I was wondering whether there were any publicly available reports on your area's Housing statistics; in particular, current supply and demand statistics for housing in your city.
Please see attached Housing Stocktake Report. This report was prepared for Council, so if you refer to it please cite it to ‘Manawatu District Council. (2021). Manawatu District Housing Stocktake – December 2020. Council documents 18 March 2021. Received 7/05/2021 [www.mdc.govt.nz].
In particular, building consent issuances of household units over the past few years, and how many of those got built. Also, is there a list of Building consent and Resource consent issuances that you publicly produce that I can take interest in.
We have prepared theses as the following
Attachment B – Building Consents Issued Dwellings and Relocates May 2019 – May 2020
Attachment C – Code Compliance Certificates Issued Dwellings and Relocates May 2019 – May 2020
Attachment D – Resource Consent Applications May 2019 – May 2020
A monthly report is generated for Building consents issued and is available on our website.
As the documents referred to above are quite large, we are sending you a link to them. This link will expire in 7 days, so we suggest you download and save them.LGOIMA Request Details: LG1990
Date received: 28/04/2021
Requested information: Dog euthannnasia statistics
Status: Complete
Date responded: 24/05/2021
Response:
Hi Karen,
Please find attached with stats in response to your LGOIMA Request.
Kind Regards,
Katie
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1991
Date received: 28/04/2021
Requested information: Maori Ward establishment
Status: Complete
Date responded: 27/05/2021
Response:
Please see response below to your LGOIMA Request.
Has your council has discussed establishing a Māori ward or Māori constituency at a council meeting since the Local Electoral (Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Act 2021 came into effect on 2 March 2021?
Yes.
If the answer to this question is "yes", please advise what further action your council resolved to take.
At its meeting held 20 May 2021, the Council resolved to establish a Māori Ward for electoral purposes, that will come into effect at the 2022 elections. A representation review is now being undertaken, as required under provisions of the Local Electoral Act 2001.
If your council had already established a Māori ward or Māori constituency prior to this legislation coming into effect, please disregard this request.