The dilapidation report on the Bastion Point groyne wall prepared by Magryn and Associates, and the report prepared by other consultants but not prefered by Council.
Dear East Gippsland Shire Council,
Could I please have a copy of the dilapidation report on the Bastion Point groyne wall prepared by Magryn and Associates, as well as a copy of the report on the wall commissioned from other consultants but not preferred by you? If there were more than the two reports received, I'd appreciate a copy of all of them.
Yours faithfully,
Patsy Lisle
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Dear Freedom of Information,
Thank you to the FOI officer at EGSC for your reply.
As per your instructions, I will pay the application fee required for an FOI request to be valid. You have also included this request for clarification:
"From the information provided, we have assumed that you intend to seek to access to:- “All dilapidation reports on the Bastion Point Groyne Wall held by the Council during 2022/2023”. Could you please confirm in writing that my assumption is correct?"
To clarify:
I'm seeking the dilapidation report Council has publicly acknowledged receipt of, generated by Magryn and Associates in 2023. In addition, I'm seeking information provided to Council by at least one other consultancy on the problems with the Bastion Point groyne wall. I believe there was at least one other consultancy engaged because a consultant who worked on it has mentioned the fact and that their findings were not what Council wanted. Whether those findings had been finalised before rejection by Council as a dilapidation report or whether it was in some sort of preliminary document, I have no idea. I also don't know the time frame of your investigations, so I can't say for sure if the other consultancy was engaged and finished with by 2022.
I'm sorry this is so vague, but that's the problem when there is so little transparency.
I also don't know if Council engaged more than two consultancies before getting the kind of response they were after. If Council has been provided with documents by any other consultancies engaged to try to deal with this $6million disaster, which outline their expert views of what is wrong with the break wall and what should be done, then I'd like a copy. Clearly, only someone with inside knowledge of Council's operations could correctly provide dates or names of the documents.
Yours sincerely,
Patsy Lisle