MBOMBELA – The appointment of a CFO in the local municipality, after there has been a vacancy for two years, appears to be bearing fruit.
Mr Oupa Mokoena was appointed earlier this year after serving as deputy CFO. As the most senior official, he was in charge of the local municipality’s finances for months.
Things seemed to be improving, according to Mbombela Local Municipality’s (MLM) fourth-quarter financial reports, which it tabled to council on July 20.
Recently resigned caucus leader of the official opposition, the DA’s Mr Jo Koster, noted that MLM had improved on underspending and on paying its electricity bills.
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The party’s newly appointed chief whip and acting caucus leader, Mr Steven Schormann, commended officials on, particularly, the spending of its municipal infrastructure grant. He noted that concerns on its irregular expenditure in the fourth quarter remained.
Mbombela also congratulated itself on the improved functioning of its bid adjudication committees.
“It performed much better than any other bid adjudication committee appointed in the history of the municipality,” the CFO reported.
This was attributed to increased support from general managers and the municipal manager, commitment from members, and the approval of financial delegations.
“‘This should expedite service delivery in a sense that none of the departments’ failure to perform shall be attributed either to the supply chain-management processes or the municipal manager as it used to be the case.”
