Official Information Request - 13 November 2020

The costs for the balance of the respective years is made up of out-sourced catering, cafeteria supplies and miscellaneous catering purchases.

To break the 'other meetings' down to the detail requested (either Eurest catering or out-sourced catering) would take a significant amount of staff time requiring each individual line from the report to be analysed and collated, estimated at over 20 hours (excluding approximately 4 hours spent collating the above information). Council is entitled to charge for time in excess of one hour and, as per the Ministry of Justice charging guidelines, our normal practice is to charge $38 per half hour or part thereof. Therefore to complete the balance of your request would incur a cost of at least $1520 including GST. Council has made the decision to decline to provide any further break down under section 17(f) of the Act 'that the information requested cannot be made available without substantial collation or research'.

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