Ward 43 councillor Bruce Reid has responded to claims that he doesn’t address service delivery issues in Windmill Park.
Residents are demanding a police station, a clinic, houses, resources and community centres and other service delivery needs.
According to Reid, in the budget that was recently approved the request for a police station, a high school and a primary school in Windmill Park has been referred to the provincial government.
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“They have been referred to the provincial government because local municipality does not supply such things. The request for a resource centre (library) also falls under the provincial function,” Reid said.
In regard to having a community hall in the area, he highlighted that it was in the budget for the current financial year.
According to a document seen by the Advertiser, for the year 2020/21 the final budget allocation is R4 133 734-million, for the year 2021/22 it’s R5 102 495-m and for 2022/23 it’s R9 465 246-m.
Reid refuted claims that he is always unavailable.
“The last time I was at Windmill Park was in April when I handed out food parcels to the community who were affected by the lockdown. I was there in four occasions and I was working hand-in-hand with a local church,” said Reid.
With the issue of housing Reid said he has spoken to residents on numerous occasions that if they qualify for RDP houses they need to go to the Boksburg Civic Centre and register on the housing register.
“Most of them did go, but the problem is that the ANC in Ekurhuleni doesn’t want to release the housing list because they manipulate the list for political gain. I think there will be less of confusion if they make the housing list public,” Reid said.
He further advised parents to supervise and monitor their children while they are in the park.
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