LGOIMA Requests
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| Received | Subject | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/04/2021 | External legal spend | Complete | Details |
| 07/04/2021 | Correspondence re State Highway 54 | Complete | Details |
| 30/03/2021 | Charging for LGOIMA requests | Complete | Details |
| 29/03/2021 | Climate Change Commission Submission | Complete | Details |
| 26/03/2021 | Swimming Pool Inspections | Complete | Details |
| 22/03/2021 | GIS Data on Operational drinking water and wastewater pipes | Complete | Details |
| 21/03/2021 | Dog attacks and prosecutions | Complete | Details |
| 11/03/2021 | Feilding Wastewater discharge Resource Consent Application | Complete | Details |
| 08/03/2021 | 2021 Ratepayers Report data | Complete | Details |
| 05/03/2021 | Preparation of Regional Land Transport Plan | Complete | Details |
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1989
Date received: 09/04/2021
Requested information: External legal spend
Status: Complete
Date responded: 28/04/2021
Response:
- Total external legal spend.
What was your total spend on external legal service fees & service providers in the years ended 30 June 2019 and 30 June 2020 respectively? 2019 $742,559 2020 $412,113
2. Amount incurred with each legal service provider (professional service providers IE- firms) also include suppliers such as "Brookers" (above $5k)
3. For each of the years ended 30 June 2019 and 30 June 2020:
(a) Legal team staffing numbers
Headcount: how many lawyers were employed or engaged in a legal role by your organisation during each year: None
FTE lawyers: if different, how many full-time equivalent (FTE) such lawyers? None
(b) Non-legal staff in legal team/law department
Headcount: how many non-legal staff were employed or engaged during each year in the legal team or otherwise directly associated with or supporting the legal staff in 3(a) above: None – we do not have a legal team
FTE non-legal staff: if different, how many FTE such staff? None – we do not have a legal team
4. Total internal legal spend. In each year ended 30 June 2019 and 30 June 2020 what was your: None – we do not have legal services internally
Direct total investment on internal legal services, including all salaries & service providers: None
The additional indirect costs of internal legal services? None
5. Chief Legal Officer reporting. At what organisational level does your most senior lawyer report? Not applicable – no legal services in house
ORGANISATIONAL FIGURES
6. Total staff numbers. In total, how many of the following were employed or otherwise utilised by your organisation as at 30 June 2019 and 30 June 2020 respectively?
A)
Total employees/staff in whatever capacity
if different, the full-time equivalent (ie FTE) number of all such employees/staff
As per Annual Report 2019 – 2020, page 106
7. Total amount of legal "work/matters" outsourced to external providers for the organisation as at 30 June 2019 and 30 June 2020 respectively? All legal costs incurred are to external suppliers as above
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1988
Date received: 07/04/2021
Requested information: Correspondence re State Highway 54
Status: Complete
Date responded: 14/04/2021
Response:
Please find attached a link to requested documentation regarding State Highway 54 within the Feilding Urban area.
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.
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1987
Date received: 30/03/2021
Requested information: Charging for LGOIMA requests
Status: Complete
Date responded: 30/03/2021
Response:
Please supply the following information under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA):
1. Does your organisation have a policy or guidelines in relation to charging requestors for supplying information under the LGOIMA?
Set out in our Fees and Charges on MDC website
2. If yes, please supply a written copy of the policy/guideline, including grounds for seeking costs for supplying information, charges for photocopying, scanning or other copying of information and the hourly rate for staff time in compiling LGOIMA requests?
A copy can be found on our website LGOIMA Requests (mdc.govt.nz)
3. If not, what does your organisation charge for photocopying, scanning or other copying of information and what is the hourly rate for staff time in compiling requests under the LGOIMA?
n/a
In the 12 months from 01 January 2020 to December 31, 2020:
4. How many requests for information under the LGOIMA did your organisation receive?
66
5. Of these, in how many was the requestor advised that they would incur charges for copying and staff time, or any other reason?
nil
6. In how many of these, did the requestor pay the required charge for supplying of information?
nil
7. In total, how much did your organisation receive in payments for supplying information under the LGOIMA?
nil
8. What were the largest 10 amounts paid by requestors in charges for fulfilling LGOIMA requests?
nil
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1986
Date received: 29/03/2021
Requested information: Climate Change Commission Submission
Status: Complete
Date responded: 30/03/2021
Response:
- The submission you made to Climate Change Commission
MDC submission attached
- Which advisors or consultants, if any did you use in relation to your submission?
None. The submission was drafted by a staff member based on the input of elected members.
- If you did use advisors or consultants, how much did you pay for their services?
NA (as above)
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1985
Date received: 26/03/2021
Requested information: Swimming Pool Inspections
Status: Complete
Date responded: 19/04/2021
Response:
- The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries as at 1st January 2014.
256 Pools (9 spas)
- The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries as at 1st January 2017.
285 Pools (10 Spas)
- The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries as at 1st January 2020.
325 Pools (17 spas)
- The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that had a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2014 and 31st December 2016.
146 Pools, (7 spas)
- The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that did not have a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2014 and 31st December 2016.
175.
- The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that failed a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2014 and 31st December 2016.
68 had a failed inspection (2 spas)
- The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that had a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019.
214 Pools, (13 spas)
- The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that did not have a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019.
144.
- The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that failed a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019.
110 Pools (2 spas)
- The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that failed a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019 that had passed the most recent previous pool inspection conducted prior to 2017.
20 pools (1 spa)
- For the residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that failed a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019 that had passed a previous pool inspection conducted before 2017, provide the following additional information:
- Number that had made consented changes to the circumstances of the pool
None
- Number that had made unconsented changes to the circumstances of the pool
18
- Number that had no changes to the circumstances of the pool
3
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1984
Date received: 22/03/2021
Requested information: GIS Data on Operational drinking water and wastewater pipes
Status: Complete
Date responded: 24/03/2021
Response:
Please find attached the compressed file named mdc_wa_line.zip.
The file contains our drinking water lines as well as our wastewater lines as extracted from our asset management system into ESRI shapefile format. (NZTM)
Drinking water pipes - (mdc_wa_line.shp)
Wastewater pipes - (mdc_ss_line.shp)
I trust this information is what you require.
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1983
Date received: 21/03/2021
Requested information: Dog attacks and prosecutions
Status: Complete
Date responded: 19/04/2021
Response:
Please see attached the spreadsheet containing our information in response to your request.
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1982
Date received: 11/03/2021
Requested information: Feilding Wastewater discharge Resource Consent Application
Status: Complete
Date responded: 18/03/2021
Response:
In response to your request we are able to provide the following documents:
1- Resource Consent AEE original
2- NZEnvC 53 Feilding Wastewater Treatment Decision
3- [2016] NZEnvC 230 Manawatū District Council
We have attached #2 and #3 here, however the Resource Consent AEE original is too large to attach. We have provided a link that will take you to all of these documents. LG_1982_Documents This link will be available for one week, so please download and save the documents as soon as possible.
The application process for the Manawatu WWTP continued discharge to the Oroua River and land was a drawn out process. Subsequently a significant amount of information was exchanged. Due to the amount of the information, it is not possible to supply this via email. Therefore, if you require additional information please arrange to come into the office.
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1980
Date received: 08/03/2021
Requested information: 2021 Ratepayers Report data
Status: Complete
Date responded: 17/03/2021
Response:
X+Y $ 18,048,601.72
Z 5683
Average residential rates $3175.89
- Average non-residential rates
- The average non-residential costs of rates and other Council charges, where average non-residential costs = (X + Y) / Z.
- Please ensure that the figures used (X, Y, and Z) are disclosed in the response, where:
- X is the total of all rates (general and targeted) charged by the Council to rating units except those defined as residential*;
- Y is the total amount of user charges or levies applicable to rating units except those defined as residential* (for example, charges related to metered water, infrastructure contributions, refuse collection, fire protection etc); and
- Z is the number of rating units except those defined as residential* (however defined by the Council) within the Council's district or city. If the Council does not have a classification for non-residential, please use the closest definition (such as commercial).
- Please do not include Council charges that are not part of the rates demand (for example, retail sales of Council rubbish bags).
X+Y $ 17,316,435,30
Z 8246
Average NON residential rates $2099.98
*Please ensure that this definition matches that used to calculate average residential rates so that the respective X values of both requests add up to total rates income for the 2019/2020 Financial Year.
- Personnel
- The total number of staff dismissed due to poor performance. 5
- If applicable, the FTE number of staff employed by council-controlled organisations. 20.8
- The total number of staff including those employed by council-controlled organisations receiving remuneration in excess of $100,000.24
- The total number of staff including those employed by council-controlled organisations receiving remuneration in excess of $200,000. 3
- Audit and Risk Oversight
- How many members are on the Council's Audit and Risk Committee (or equivalent)? 8
- Does the Council have independent members on the Committee? Yes
- Is the Chair of the Committee an independent member? No
- Does the Council have a lawyer (with a current practising certificate) on the Committee? No
- Does the Council have an accountant (with a current practising certificate) on the Committee? Yes
- Does the Council have a code of conduct requiring political neutrality from Council staff? – We don't currently have one however we do remind the staff periodically about being politically neutral and in the future we will be creating a policy.
Payments to third parties
- The total payments made by the Council (or any council-controlled organisation) to any Chamber of Commerce, including GST. $384 MDC, CEDA (CCO) $31,751
- The total payments made by the Council (or any council-controlled organisation) to Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ), including GST. $61,220 MDC, no spend for CCOs
- The total payments made by the Council (or any council-controlled organisation) to the New Zealand Society of Local Government Managers (SOLGM), including GST. $41,349 MDC, no spend for CCOs
LGOIMA Request Details: LG1979
Date received: 05/03/2021
Requested information: Preparation of Regional Land Transport Plan
Status: Complete
Date responded: 05/03/2021
Response:
We have today received your LGOIMA information request dated 26 February 2021. As a district Council we do not prepare a Regional Land Transport Plan, and have therefore transferred your request to Horizons Regional Council under whose area Manawatu DC falls.
We have not been able to obtain an email address or phone contact for you to respond more quickly, hence the hard copy posted mail.