| Costs
of Great Barrier (Aotea) Marine Reserve
Department
of Conservation
26 June 2006
26 June,
2006
Dear Scott
Macindoe
I refer
to your official information request to Felicity Wong on 18 May
2006 concerning the Aotea (Great Barrier) marine reserve proposal
and application. Your request was forwarded to me for reply.
You asked
for:
".information
concerning costs associated with:
-
The Aotea marine reserve;
-
Proposal,
and
-
Application
-
Mimiwhangata
marine reserve proposal".
This letter
addresses the issue of costs associated with the Aotea (Great
Barrier) Marine Reserve. Your request has been forwarded to Northland
Conservancy for a response regarding the Mimiwhangata marine reserve
proposal.
The department
began work on the current Great Barrier marine reserve proposal
in 2002 and the Aotea (Great Barrier) Marine Reserve Application
was first notified on 2 August 2004.
The Department
of Conservation did not record costs associated with the Great
Barrier marine reserve proposal and application as a separate
budget item. The project was included in a wider business plan
that covered all marine reserve establishment work that Auckland
Conservancy was undertaking. To provide the most accurate estimate
of costs associated with the Great Barrier marine reserve proposal
and application the following information has been listed below:
-
all
costs recorded in the marine reserve establishment business
plan by financial year, and
-
an
estimate of the amount of time and resources in each financial
year that were spent on the Great Barrier proposal.
2002/03
|
Resource
|
Amount
($) |
Salaries
& wages |
55,583
|
Professional
fees & Consultants |
22,896
|
Postage,
freight & courier |
114
|
Computer
equipment – lease |
4,226
|
Domestic
travel – airfares |
7,155
|
Domestic
travel – other |
2,712
|
Office
supplies |
175
|
Purchase
field supplies |
80
|
Printing
& publishing |
26,257
|
Catering
& entertainment |
842
|
Ex
gratia |
368
|
TOTAL
|
120,408
|
Approximately
50 per cent of the above costs were related to the Great Barrier
marine reserve application.
2003/04
|
Resource
|
Amount
($) |
Salaries
& wages |
63,652
|
Professional
fees/Consultants |
19,434
|
Computer
equipment – lease |
4,375
|
Domestic
travel – airfares |
1,359
|
Domestic
travel – other |
1,026
|
Office
supplies |
1,413
|
Printing
& publishing |
15,135
|
Catering
& entertainment |
268
|
Miscellaneous
expenses |
3,600
|
Consultation
& meetings (Great Barrier Area Office) |
20,000
|
TOTAL
|
130,
262 |
Approximately
75 per cent of the above costs were related to the Great Barrier
marine reserve application.
2004/05
|
Resource
|
Amount
($) |
Salaries
& wages |
64,369
|
Postal
charges, couriers, freight, postage |
3,641
|
Computer
equipment – lease |
3,927
|
Office
supplies, stationery |
130
|
Professional
fees/consultants |
38,262
|
Domestic
airfares |
1,885
|
Travel
– domestic, expenses |
644
|
Printing
& publication costs |
5,058
|
Hospitality/events
|
47
|
Education
costs |
2,476
|
Ex
gratia & koha |
29
|
TOTAL
|
120,468
|
Approximately
90 per cent of the above costs were related to the Great Barrier
marine reserve application.
2005/06*
|
Resource
|
Amount
($) |
Salary
& wages |
19,657
|
Computer
equipment – lease |
3,320
|
Office
supplies, stationery |
18
|
Professional
fees/consultants |
3,855
|
Domestic
airfares |
1,310
|
Travel
– domestic, expenses |
255
|
Hospitality/events
|
1,322
|
Education
costs |
1,533
|
TOTAL
|
31,270
|
*Note
– the 2005/06 figures are for the year to 25 May 2006.
Approximately
15 per cent of the above costs were related to the Great Barrier
marine reserve application.
Please contact
Emma Rush on (09) 307-9279 or erush@doc.govt.nz
if you have any questions relating to this information.
Yours sincerely
Sean Goddard
Auckland
Conservator
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