THE Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is decentralising its operations from mid-July 2016, acting Public Relations Officer Debra Lewis said.According to Lewis, the announcement was made at the level of the administration when Town Clerk Royston King met with senior officers of the Council at a special meeting.

The Town Clerk explained that decentralisation is necessary to provide more efficient services within the confines of the City’s human and financial resources.

King noted that the decentralisation would allow citizens to have better access to officers and would also enable complaints and quires made by citizens to be handled in a timelier manner.

He therefore noted that citizens who do not live within the central business district would not have to be burdened with travelling to City Hall to have their concerns addressed.

“It is quite a cumbersome arrangement to have senior citizens travelling from as far as Agricola and Cummings Lodge to have issues addressed at City Hall,” said Town Clerk King.

According to him, in the past, the Council had employed this method of management but many of the buildings from which officers operated could not be utilised.

However, with the Council’s ongoing programme to repair and renovate its facilities, decentralisation of its services is now possible.

Several officers from the Town Clerk’s Department, City Public Health Department, Clerk of Markets Department and City Engineer’s Department are already assigned to operate from Kitty Market and Agricola Community Centre.

Citizens who live in Kitty, Bel Air Park, Newtown Campbellville, Subryanville, Cummings Lodge and Atlantic Ville are encouraged to visit the Kitty Market while citizens who reside between Agricola and Alexander Village should visit the Agricola Community Centre to have their concerns addressed.