TOWN Clerk Royston King has disclosed that City Council is looking at installing a double-deck in Bourda Green and extending the Stabroek Market in order to accommodate the ultimate relocation of vendors of Parliament View Mall.On Monday, when he spoke of the three-months extension granted the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) for vendors to continue plying their trade at the Parliament View Mall, the plot of land south of Public Buildings, he said: “We have received an extension at Parliament View Mall that will go until December. Again, I wish to publicly announce my gratitude to the owner for his support and understanding of our efforts at the M&CC,” King said at City Hall’s statutory meeting.

“We are not in any way attempting to take bread from anyone, but we’re trying to organise the City in a way that will make it (comparable to) modern cities and that would allow it to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the great cities of the world,” he said.

The Town Clerk said he is hoping, at the expiration of this extension, not to have to seek any further extensions, and that a policy from the Public Health and Markets Committee would be made available.

“There are several options on the table. We are looking at a double-decker in Bourda Green, and we’re looking at the extension of the Stabroek Market, among others.”

Mayor Patricia Chase-Green said she also hopes there would be no need to apply for a further extension of the life of the Parliament View Mall, because of the trauma and stress the City Hall team had endured to secure this extension.

“The owner has his own development (plans) for that area, and we would not want to stop development in Georgetown based on our own inadequacy of not providing proper vending areas for vendors,” the Mayor observed.

She said it was disappointing that when a meeting was called on the issue, all the members of the Markets and Public Health Committee did not turn up.

“Maybe they had other commitments, but we have to be proactive in this; we cannot sit down. We sat down for the three months, and were not able at the end of the three months to come up with one suggestion. If we were forced to remove those vendors at the end of August, where would we put them?” the Mayor pondered.

“The Markets Public Health Committee said they wanted to do a policy so (that) at the end of the three months we would have been able to do something. The end of the three months is here, and we have done nothing! We are lucky that we were able to have an extension,” she said.