QLDC airport survey details released - costs hidden

The key deliverables are:
1. A socio-economic impact analysis. This will include:

Role of the airport in facilitating and enabling tourism and economic growth and its impacts on the community, region, nation.

Consideration as to how travel capacity demand is met by air and road and the impact of various scenarios on required infrastructure investment such as roading and transport.

Identification, presentation and commentary on the social and economic indicators that are relevant to the socio-economic impact analysis

Agreement and development of four airport scenarios for analysis Economic impacts under different scenarios including:

• -  tourism - locally, regionally and nationally

• -  economy - locally, regionally and nationally

• -  financial implications

• -  other implications for the local and wider economy

  Social impacts (informed by the stakeholder engagement below) including the:

• -  social impact of airport operations on the district’s communities, with particular regard to well-being, quality of life and social licence

• -  environmental impacts of airport operations, including consideration of climate change and reputation.

2. Effective stakeholder engagement

•   Wide reaching engagement with the district’s communities and key stakeholders

•   Comprehensive understanding of risks, costs, and impacts (positive and negative) of the status quo and options.

But the sections of the contract that relate to fees have been 100% redacted. In response to a Crux request for the costs, QLDC replied:

"These have been withheld as commercially sensitive under consideration of LGOIMA, section 7, part (2) (b) (ii):
“would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information”

All details on costs and fees have been removed from teh publicly released contract

Even expenses have been removed.