HIBISCUS Coast Municipality mayor Cynthia Mqwebu has threatened to blacklist underperforming contractors.
At a recent press briefing, the mayor revealed that the underperformance of some contractors had had a negative impact on the implementation of the municipality’s capital projects.
“Council approved an adjusted capital budget of roughly R115-million for the 2012/1213 financial year,” said the mayor.
She added that council had identified the issue of under-capacity in the department responsible for the delivery of housing projects.
“The municipality has since received support in the form of a grant from the provincial department of housing to reinforce personnel capacity within the unit,” she explained.
She added that the underperformance of some appointed contractors had also had a negative affect on the successful completion of capital projects, and said the municipality was currently investigating, with a view to blacklisting contractors which have failed to deliver projects on deadline.
“As it stands, the municipality spent only 70 percent of its capital budget in the 2012/2013 financial year,” she said.
“Several measures have been put in place to ensure that the situation does not reoccur,” she concluded.
