City of Mbombela approves revised budget to speed up service delivery

The City of Mbombela (CoM) has approved the revised service delivery and budget implementation plan (SDBIP) for the 2021/22 financial year.

The CoM mayor, Sibongile Makhushe, said the revised plan sets out the municipality’s plans for the remaining part of the 2021/22 financial year as approved by the integrated development planning adjusted budget.

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The SDBIP gives effect to the adjusted capital and operating projects budget as per council resolution.

“The fact that Covid-19 has been with us for this long, has unfortunately had an impact on our organisational collection rate and performance in terms of planned targets and indicators. The municipality’s forward plan is to ensure that at the end of the financial year, we have spent most of our infrastructure development grants. Infrastructure development is important in addressing some issues related to the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality that are faced by our communities,” said Makhushe.

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She also said the municipality is committed to delivering services and thus contributing towards addressing key priority issues of the municipality through the implementation of the SDBIP.

The overall planned performance of the scorecard reflected in the revised SDBIP shows that the municipality intends to upgrade roads and stormwater, bulk and network reticulation, as well as electricity supply to the communities.

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