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Proactive releases

As part of our commitment to remaining open and accountable, we proactively release information and documents that are of interest to the public. We reset our approach in July 2023.

In accordance with the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA) and guidance from the Office of the Ombudsman it is important that information that no longer needs to be excluded from the public should be released when it is possible to do so.

This also includes responses to LGOIMA requests where we feel it is in the public interest to also disclose the information.

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This is where items that have been in the public excluded agenda of Council and Committee meetings will be released to.

This page will be displayed by month and year. Within each month there will be a heading for the meetings of Council’s standing Committees and Council that meet that month.

Minutes, where they can be released, will follow at least one month behind as we must wait for them to be confirmed by the Committee/ Council the following month.

There might be an occasion where a report or minutes are updated as more information is able to be released (for example after an event has occurred), we will update the information and make it clear that the document is an updated version.

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LGOIMA

Council receives a number of LGOIMA requests every year. There are some requests that hold a public interest aspect, this means that it can be appropriate to publish the information we release. It will be on a case by case basis, and all identifying information for the requester would be removed.

Sir Tim Shadbolt was Invercargill’s longest-serving Mayor, having served nine terms (between between 1993 and 1995, and again between 1998 and 2022) in the role.

Sir Tim, who was awarded the Knight Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List, passed away on the morning of Thursday, 8 January, at the age of 78. A public funeral service for Sir Tim was held at Invercargill’s Civic Theatre, on Friday, 16 January.

Following his passing, Invercargill City Council received a request from representatives of Sir Tim’s family regarding the availability of a venue suitable for the funeral service. In recognition of Sir Tim’s longstanding service to our community, and given our organisation had resources such as an appropriate venue and staff available to, it was felt it was appropriate to offer this support.

Council funded a portion of the costs associated with the funeral, or provided services in kind, as detailed as below.

Item – services in kind

Item – financial contribution

Details

Cost (GST exclusive)

Venue hire and services (Civic Theatre and the Scottish Hall)

Including video, sound, equipment hire, security, flowers, additional staff hours)

$23,603.55

Signage

Corflute funeral parking signage

$232.00

Transportation costs

Truck hire to bring objects to the Civic Theatre

$265.29

Condolence books

x2 copies

$741.42

Internment costs – Eastern Cemetery

$4,643.48

TOTAL

$29,485.74 (GST exclusive)

At present, the costs allocated from the Waihōpai Alliance, associated with traffic management for Sir Tim’s funeral service, are not available.

Additionally, no allocation of cost regarding Council staff involved in supporting the set-up and delivery of the service (outside of costs associated with additional hours for event production staff) has been made.

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