HIBISCUS Coast Municipality has been scored as the best performing municipality in the medium to large category in the Consolidated Annual Municipal Performance Section 47 report for 2011/2012. This was announced by the MEC for Cooperative Governance, Nomusa Dube recently.
The report focuses on the five key priorities of local government, and each municipality is scored through a portfolio of evidence which includes its Integrated Development Plan, the audit report and other external assessment methods. Overall the municipality scored 87 percent; the highest in the category of entities of the same capacity.
“The municipality scored highly in terms of Municipal Transformation and Institutional Development, and its Integrated Development Plan is aligned to the Service Delivery Budget and Implementation Plan,” said HCM mayor, Cynthia Mqwebu.
She added that another factor was the creation of jobs through the municipality’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and good local economic development initiatives.
This percentage was further formed by the fact that in the financial year 2011/2012 Hibiscus Coast Municipality received an unqualified audit report, had a functional Performance Audit Committee and has a sound Spatial Development Framework.
The MEC stressed that the main purpose of the report was to report on progress being made by municipalities towards achieving the overall goal of ‘a better life for all’.
“Furthermore, the report is a key performance tool for communities and other stakeholders in keeping with the principles of transparency and accountability of government to its citizens,” concluded MEC Dube.
