While all of the outcomes remain confidential I can comment on one of the processes for their response.
At the end of the mediation day there was a point of dispute on how much funding the schools had received. We asked for one day to thoroughly check our figures. They asked for two weeks to do the same.
We supplied our part the next day. Two weeks later they rang. They would not tell us their outcome on the phone – instead insisting they come to Auckland to meet the next day.
The next day – mid-morning – three high level officials arrived at our office. They came in and sat down. Told us that we were correct but that the missing amount would not be made up. I closed the meeting three minutes after it started. They ordered a new taxi and the three senior officials went back to the Auckland airport and home to Wellington.
It has stuck in my head since (and two of the three people are still in very senior roles). They booked flights the day before, flew in and out – plus no doubt a nice lunch – when a phone call or email would have done.
Is this type of spending of taxpayers’ money common?
Alwyn Poole, a well-known figure in the New Zealand education system, he founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. This article was sourced HERE
We supplied our part the next day. Two weeks later they rang. They would not tell us their outcome on the phone – instead insisting they come to Auckland to meet the next day.
The next day – mid-morning – three high level officials arrived at our office. They came in and sat down. Told us that we were correct but that the missing amount would not be made up. I closed the meeting three minutes after it started. They ordered a new taxi and the three senior officials went back to the Auckland airport and home to Wellington.
It has stuck in my head since (and two of the three people are still in very senior roles). They booked flights the day before, flew in and out – plus no doubt a nice lunch – when a phone call or email would have done.
Is this type of spending of taxpayers’ money common?
Alwyn Poole, a well-known figure in the New Zealand education system, he founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. This article was sourced HERE
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