To enable the community to inform the councillors and officials of their issues. Inputs received during these engagements have been dealt with as described above. Council meetings Bi-Monthly Mayor and Councillors To inform the community of council (open to public) Senior management personnel of decisions, community rights and municipality duties, municipal affairs etc. Special IDP and Annually Mayor and Councillors To inform the community of IDP and budget Senior management personnel of budget related matters engagements municipality To obtain community input on Community content of IDP and proposed An IDP Specific Continuous Community To allow the community to submit Email Address IDP Office ward needs to the municipality electronically Municipal Continuously Mayor and Councillors To provide comprehensive Website updated Community information of municipal affairs Personnel of municipality Advertise public engagements Publish adopted IDP and budget 75: Breede Valley Municipality further endorses the following principles for public participation in the IDP process planning cycle, namely: Elected councillors are the ultimate decision-making body The processes followed should be structured and ensure an equal right to participate The process should allow sufficient room for diversity The process should create conditions to promote and encourage participation, especially with regard to disadvantaged and marginalised groups and gender equity Community engagements and needs The public consultation process was successfully rolled out in the 21 wards of Breede Valley Municipality, reflecting a significant improvement in the turnout at these meetings. The municipality provided all possible logistical support in the arrangement of these meetings, i.e. transporting members of the public to and from meetings to afford them an open opportunity to engage with Council on the prevalent needs existing in Breede Valley. These community consultations proved to be very successful and offered an insight to the tremendous challenges which both government and citizens are faced with. The consultation process recorded the following list of needs, all of which do not necessarily constitute or are within the mandate of local government; the needs outside our mandate was communicated to the relevant sphere of government and/or institution responsible for the core service. The list of community needs per ward is indicated in the following table in order of priority and a summary of inputs from public meetings are given.
To enable the community to inform the councillors and officials of their issues. Inputs received during these engagements have been dealt with as described above. Council meetings (open to public) Bi-Monthly Mayor and Councillors Senior management personnel of municipality To inform the community of council decisions, community rights and duties, municipal affairs etc. Special IDP and budget engagements Annually Mayor and Councillors Senior management personnel of municipality Community To inform the community of IDP and budget related matters To obtain community input on content of IDP and proposed An IDP Specific Email Address Continuous Community IDP Office To allow the community to submit ward needs to the municipality electronically Municipal Website Continuously updated Mayor and Councillors Community Personnel of municipality To provide comprehensive information of municipal affairs Advertise public engagements Publish adopted IDP and budget 75: Breede Valley Municipality further endorses the following principles for public participation in the IDP process planning cycle, namely: Elected councillors are the ultimate decision-making body The processes followed should be structured and ensure an equal right to participate The process should allow sufficient room for diversity The process should create conditions to promote and encourage participation, especially with regard to disadvantaged and marginalised groups and gender equity Community engagements and needs The public consultation process was successfully rolled out in the 21 wards of Breede Valley Municipality, reflecting a significant improvement in the turnout at these meetings. The municipality provided all possible logistical support in the arrangement of these meetings, i.e. transporting members of the public to and from meetings to afford them an open opportunity to engage with Council on the prevalent needs existing in Breede Valley. These community consultations proved to be very successful and offered an insight to the tremendous challenges which both government and citizens are faced with. The consultation process recorded the following list of needs, all of which do not necessarily constitute or are within the mandate of local government; the needs outside our mandate was communicated to the relevant sphere of government and/or institution responsible for the core service. The list of community needs per ward is indicated in the following table in order of priority and a summary of inputs from public meetings are given.
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