AS one matter is resolved at City Hall another looms. 

Recently, the issue of wage increases for workers of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was resolved, but now another problem lurks in connection with the approving of M&CC’s budget for 2015.
Recently speaking in an invited comment, Georgetown’s Deputy Mayor, Patricia Chase- Green noted that the budget has not been approved as yet and would not be dealt with until December 22, 2014.
She stated that the main reason the budget is not being discussed earlier, is because, when the Mayor and City Council requested a meeting to discuss it, The Acting Town Clerk, Carol Sooba, stated in a written report that the budget is not important and it could wait.

RECENT BUDGET ISSUE
On November 17, 2014, five of six municipalities gathered in the Ministry of Local Government’s boardroom to report on budgetary estimates for 2015, but the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was singing a different tune.
Sooba at that meeting had stated: “The Georgetown municipality had some political issues in the preparation of our 2015 budget.”
Sooba explained that while there were several meetings of the Finance Committee to produce the approved budgetary estimates and expenditure, “There was a change of our Finance Chairman, Councillor Junior Garrett, [who] was removed for some reason or the other. And we are without a Finance Chairman.”

ACTING FINANCE CHAIRMAN
Since that meeting was held on November 17, the M&CC appointed a new Acting Finance Chairman, Oscar Clarke, who has since been carrying out the duties of Finance Chairman for at least a month according to an employee attached to the M&CC on Tuesday last.
She noted that hopefully now that a person is in place to take care of the Finance Committee, the meeting can be a success and M&CC’s budget can be presented on December 22 without any flaws or arguments.
But lately the M&CC has been receiving bad criticism and are known for having faults or flaws in any step they take, this was according to several recognised personnel, who have been witnessing the failures of the M&CC throughout the year.