Hawks to be asked to investigate basketball court cost
Aylward said his requests for answers from officials and from the ward councillor had proved fruitless.
THE meeting of the Bluff Ratepayers and Residents Association held on Thursday, 30 May mandated chairman, Ivor Aylward, to ask the Hawks to investigate the reasons the upgrade of the basketball court at Bayview, which cost R600 000 was overpriced by at least R250 000.
Aylward said his requests for answers from officials and from the ward councillor had proved fruitless. “Ratepayers need to monitor expenditure and to ensure frugality. After all, it is our money that is being spent,” he said.
The association seeks answers on how it is that a youth centre is being built near Wentworth hospital when the long-promised residential upgrade of the council-owned accommodation in Donnelly road has still not commenced. The upgrade was supposed to have begun in 2014. Concern was expressed about the unofficial taxi rank that has come about outside of Bluff Towers in Tara Road.
Besides the impact of the taxis on traffic, concern was expressed about access to toilet facilities. For more than four years, the Bluff show grounds have been in a derelict state. The association believes that if the council cannot maintain it, then the area should revert to nature. Aylward questioned the lack of supervision that had been shown in the erection of bus shelters in terms of their location and placement. As an investment in infrastructure, those contracted to do the job had been slap dash in how ratepayers money was spent.
The association is opposed to the construction of a mosque on the corner of Doon and Woolley roads. Not only is Woolley road a narrow, one-way street, but the area has no space at all for parking. Questions were asked whether an environmental impact study had been carried out and whether the project had been advertised in the legal section of the Mercury. Unfortunately, cllr JP Prinsloo was not present to provide any answers.
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