$50k "Partnership" training - NRC

A 24-hour stay at a marae for 40 Northland Regional Council (NRC) managers has cost ratepayers just under $50,000. Part of the course was to instruct staff on the implementation of the council’s “Taike E” strategy towards full Maori “Partnership” by 2040. 

The NRC told LETTERBOX the “managers’ wananga”  was held at the Ngāiotonga Marae in Rawhiti, on the 5^th and 6^th of May.  They say, 

“The total cost was $49,434. The breakdown is $450 venue hire, $733.49 catering costs, $46,120.60 staff salaries/allowances, and $2,109.95 travel/mileage.”

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