Haeata spent almost $20k on Queenstown trip

I blogged previously on the remarkable stats achieved by Haeata Community Campus, where school lunches is their special focus.

Well the Auditor-General has just revealed:

Haeata Community Campus School paid $18,500 for a trip to Queenstown for professional coaching and wellbeing for its senior leadership team but did not provide enough evidence that all the spending had a clear business purpose.

Almost $20,000 on a trip to Queenstown for school senior leaders. What a great use of taxpayer money. Think of many school lunches that could have paid for. They spent $3,000 per SLT member on “coaching and wellbeing”.

Of the $18,000, $6,000 was on meals, drinks, and tourist activities in Queenstown according to Chris Lynch. That is $1,000 each. That’s a lot of wellbeing!