The Democratic Alliance invites all stakeholders and the public to exercise their legal right to make input into the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s draft IDP and 2020/2021 municipal budget.
The Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) states that when the annual budget is tabled, the municipality must consider any views of the local community.
The residents of Nelson Mandela Bay have not been afforded this opportunity.
The DA in Nelson Mandela Bay has submitted budget proposals to the Municipality. These proposals are underpinned by the following guiding principles:
⦁ The need to stabilize municipal finances and the ability to deliver
⦁ The need to safeguard municipal assets
⦁ The duty to maintain municipal infrastructure
⦁ The ongoing service delivery responsibility
⦁ The responsibility for Covid-19 social and economic relief and recovery measures
⦁ The obligation of minimizing the Covid-19 health risk
⦁ Dealing with the drought
⦁ The requirement that the Auditor-General and National Treasury requirements be addressed
Some of the issues our proposals focus on are:
⦁ Affordable tariff increases
⦁ Increasing revenue collection
⦁ Zero tolerance for wasteful expenditure
⦁ Zero tolerance for water and electricity losses
⦁ Identify and fill critical vacancies