Auckland's rescue helicopter trust is asking the Auditor-General to investigate an Auckland Council board that has slashed its funding.
The trust is already taking legal action against the Regional Amenities Funding Board, which cut the trust's ratepayer funding from $1.5 million a year to $450,000.
Trust chair Murray Bolton says that in total the board has allocated $66 million of funding since 2010, but has no written criteria for how it allocates it.
He says the board also has no written record of which members have accepted gifts, such as free tickets, from the organisations it funds.
The board told Radio New Zealand its members verbally declare such gifts at the beginning of each meeting.
Mr Bolton says the board should make its register of gifts public.
Board chair Vern Walsh says their processes are very robust, and he's 100 percent certain they stand up to scutiny. He says the trust's accusations indicate it is disgruntled over the funding decision, which was a fair one.
