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The Anna Regina Town Council (ARTC) will need prudent management or it will continue to fail in all its efforts to accomplish its objective, and it seems to me that the newly installed Interim Management Committee (IMC) doesn’t have a clue as to how to solve the numerous problems.
I am very surprised that the inquiry and probe which were held into the ARTC did not recommend the removal of the former Mayor and the rest of the other councillors who are now placed in the IMC as concerned stakeholders were in favour of the replacement of the total council who were not visible within the communities and have caused the down fall in revenue collection and basic services to the taxpayers.
The performance and forecast in the council’s financial sphere up to the end of July 2013,have not been positive.The IMC and the former Mayor and councillors did not undertake to create a casual seller register of all vendors within the Bush Lot and Anna Regina Markets, which have become cash cows for the market clerk for decades.That data base will be a very powerful tool for future planning and key collection of revenue which will help to boost the council’s budget and describing the basis for all revenue forecast as part of improving financial management.
A new pound for strays roaming within the township was built in 1996 for $ 5 million dollars is not being used at all; a new abattoir for slaughtering animals was built at a cost for $ 10 million dollars in 2000 has never been used at al andl is now idle with vines growing on it; a members’ club with a bar was built in the Anna Regina Community Centre for $ 10 million dollars in 1998 and is idle and inefficiently utilised when cricket and fairs are held in the Centre ground causing a loss in revenue.
The Bush Lot market car park was built at a cost of $ 20 million dollars in 1998,to help garner revenue for the council is now filled with pot holes and animals are sleeping and messing on it; the council’s systems malfunction and operate inefficiently because of poor management or failure to correct some fault.There will always be a trade-off between the vendors and the council where the collection of garbage is concerned and the wastage of taxpayers’ monies.
When the IMC and the council fully seized the fact,and organise to make beneficial use of the assets,then they would have been geared for the task of making the township a better place to live.Out of the spoils yielded by the system, some benefits did indeed trickle down to those below.It is improbable that this came about as the primary objective of the system,And in any case,only those who hugged the soup bowl were likely to benefit.The people voted at one local government election since August 4,1994,but for the rest of the time,they seem to look on from the outside.
Yours faithfully,
I am very surprised that the inquiry and probe which were held into the ARTC did not recommend the removal of the former Mayor and the rest of the other councillors who are now placed in the IMC as concerned stakeholders were in favour of the replacement of the total council who were not visible within the communities and have caused the down fall in revenue collection and basic services to the taxpayers.
The performance and forecast in the council’s financial sphere up to the end of July 2013,have not been positive.The IMC and the former Mayor and councillors did not undertake to create a casual seller register of all vendors within the Bush Lot and Anna Regina Markets, which have become cash cows for the market clerk for decades.That data base will be a very powerful tool for future planning and key collection of revenue which will help to boost the council’s budget and describing the basis for all revenue forecast as part of improving financial management.
A new pound for strays roaming within the township was built in 1996 for $ 5 million dollars is not being used at all; a new abattoir for slaughtering animals was built at a cost for $ 10 million dollars in 2000 has never been used at al andl is now idle with vines growing on it; a members’ club with a bar was built in the Anna Regina Community Centre for $ 10 million dollars in 1998 and is idle and inefficiently utilised when cricket and fairs are held in the Centre ground causing a loss in revenue.
The Bush Lot market car park was built at a cost of $ 20 million dollars in 1998,to help garner revenue for the council is now filled with pot holes and animals are sleeping and messing on it; the council’s systems malfunction and operate inefficiently because of poor management or failure to correct some fault.There will always be a trade-off between the vendors and the council where the collection of garbage is concerned and the wastage of taxpayers’ monies.
When the IMC and the council fully seized the fact,and organise to make beneficial use of the assets,then they would have been geared for the task of making the township a better place to live.Out of the spoils yielded by the system, some benefits did indeed trickle down to those below.It is improbable that this came about as the primary objective of the system,And in any case,only those who hugged the soup bowl were likely to benefit.The people voted at one local government election since August 4,1994,but for the rest of the time,they seem to look on from the outside.
Yours faithfully,
