Local govts DO NOT serve the people!
A local authority election will help to address the rot that has been there the past 40 years or so!
For a simple example, collecting money through parking tickets in town, where does the money really go to? Quit rent? Is it really of any benefits to the payer? Is the amount appropriate and suitable for all house-owners?
You know what I mean, don't you all?
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The Star Online > North
Thursday October 6, 2005
Local govts set up to serve the people
PENANG: Local authorities are set up to provide services to the people and not to make profits, said the Malaysian Association of Local Authorities.
Its president Datuk Md Aris Ariffin said local authorities mainly spent on cleanliness, beautification activities and traffic management.
“All the expenditures are shown in the local authorities’ annual accounts which are audited by the Auditor-General and discussed at state assembly sittings,” he said in a press statement yesterday.
He was responding to news reports quoting Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk M. Kayveas as saying that local authorities were being run like secret societies, lacking transparency and accountability.
Md Aris said the local authori-ties’ sources of income were restricted under the Local Govern-ment Act.
“Local authorities in developing states will have good revenues but those in less developed states with limited earnings may have to rely on the state government,” he said.
Md Aris said it was unfair to criticise local authorities without pro-perly understanding their local setting.
Md Aris, who is also Seberang Prai Municipal Council president, said foreign investors could misconstrue Kayveas’ statement and this might influence their investments in Malaysia.
He added that anyone could attend a full council meeting to follow its proceedings.
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