A boost for service delivery
Gives preference to issues identified by the community.
DA councillor for Ward 97 in Brakpan Brandon Pretorius has welcomed a new service delivery intervention that started within his ward on Monday.
The aim of the intervention is to identify service delivery issues that come directly from Brakpan residents and which can be resolved in a turnaround time of a month.
He explained it gives preference to issues identified by the community which can be resolved without budget constraints.
Pretorius added it does not impact on day-to-day service delivery nor is it aimed at disregarding other important service delivery matters.
The programme kicked off with the clean-up of an area along Queen Avenue, behind Jet Stores.
“The main contributing factor to the state of this area was due to a group of different individuals collecting materials for recycling,” said Pretorius.
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“The material that was not recyclable stayed behind and turned the area into an unusable state.
“The occupants staying on the municipal-owned property have yet again been served with a notice to vacate.
“Noting that they previously declined any assistance from the municipality, the municipality has also again offered to assist them with alternative shelter.
“The relevant departments are communicating with them to try and assist as far as they possibly can and hoping that they will accept the help.”
Other areas identified through various community groups included:
• Illegal squatters at the entrance to Jan Smuts Park.
• Illegal squatters on the corner of Power Street and and Escombe Avenue.
• Illegal dumping at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and High Street.
• Weeds within the CBD, especially along Voortrekker Road and Prince George Avenue.
“These were some of the concerns identified to be given priority in the coming month,” said Pretorius.
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“I will, however, again reiterate that this does not mean day-to-day service delivery will stop or that bigger issues, like Plastic City and Jan Smuts Park will not receive attention.
“We urge residents to continuously make use of the Ekurhuleni reporting systems as this will be used to determine “hot” issues.”
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