Have your say on the metro’s IDP budget

Residents can, this year, comment through digital platforms on the draft 2020/21 reviewed Integrated Development Plan and Multiyear budget due to Covid-19.

This is in response to Directions No 43291 issued by the Minister of Corporate Governance and Tradition Affairs in terms of section 27(2) of the Disaster Management Act 2002.

The following information should be known:

How the budget is drafted

The budget of a local government is a detailed plan of how it plans to spend funds in line with its objectives, needs and priorities.

While local governments have discretionary planning and budgeting powers, their plans and budgets need to reflect priorities and objectives that are set out in national policies, plans and budgets.

As a result, the local government planning and budget cycle must fit in to the national planning and budgeting cycle.

The metro works off what can be called a blueprint, the Growth and Development Plan 2055, which is the metro’s long-term plan.

This is broken up into short-term goals, the Integrated Development Plan (IDP), that covers five years and is further broken down into fiscal year planning called Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plans (SDBIP).

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What is the IDP

The IDP is a process where municipalities prepare a strategic development plan that covers a five-year period.

It includes the:

• Planning,

• Budgeting,

• Resource allocation, and

• Decision-making processes in the municipality.

It also includes the public participation process in which the public is consulted and asked to comment on the proposed plans of the metro.

Have your say The draft IDP and budget, including the approved tariff structure, can be viewed on the metro’s website (www.ekurhuleni.gov.za).

All enquiries on the draft IDP and budget must be forwarded to katlego.mokwena@ekurhuleni.gov.za or sam.kgatla@ekurhuleni.gov.za