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Budget Hearings: Portfolio Committee: 17 March 2000

This document provides information on the budget hearings of the Portfolio Committee on Budget, including the board's mandate, institutional base, and the demarcation process and stakeholder engagement. It also includes details on the board and stakeholder meetings, rationalization plans, district management areas, and powers and functions.

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Budget Hearings: Portfolio Committee: 17 March 2000

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  1. Budget Hearings: Portfolio Committee: 17 March 2000

  2. Board’s Mandate • Finalise and modify outer boundaries • Assessment of municipal capacity to perform functions and powers • Finalise and modify ward boundaries • Align Government service delivery boundaries

  3. Board’s Institutional Base • Headquarters at Hatfield, Pretoria • Appointed Dr. Lulama Zitha as Manager, personnel complement of 11 • Appointed Dataworld as GIS and Information consultants, plus over 100 consultants utilised from database

  4. National GIS Database POINT FEATURES Hospitals,Clinics, Schools, Police Stations etc ATTRIBUTES Financial Info Socio-Economic Service Backlogs Contacts Traditional Leaders etc LINE FEATURES Roads, Rivers, Contours etc AREA FEATURES Cadastral, Land Cover, Catchments,Voting Districts, Traditional Areas etc

  5. GIS Database

  6. Activities 1998/99 Year • Set up institutional base • Policy work • Identification nodal points • Ad Hoc demarcations

  7. Process 1999/2000 • Board followed all statutory requirements. • Stakeholders defined as National Department, MECs, SALGA, affected municipalities, Houses of Traditional Leaders, Magistrates. • Board also included: Political parties, Private Sector agencies, unions, civics, NGOs, Agricultural sector. • Problem is that some stakeholders have not assisted and in some cases have confused demarcation process.

  8. Process facts • Section 26 Submissions: A /C (787), B (816) • Objections to Section 21 Notices: A/B/C (750) • Hearings: 147 with 7268 attending • Investigations: throughout country • KwaZulu-Natal: House of Traditional Leaders made no submissions

  9. www.demarcation.org.za • October 1999: 93013 visits • November 1999: 258782 visits • December 1999: 184695 visits • January 2000: 196343 visits • February 2000: 282370 visits • TOTAL TO DATE: 1015203 visits • TOLL FREE LINE: 0800111006

  10. Board and Stakeholders • Board meetings: 31 plus workshops • Stakeholder meetings: 7 national, 3 rounds of provincial briefings • Media briefings: 10 • Circulars to over 1500 stakeholders: 7

  11. Rationalisation • There are likely to be: • 6 (A Category) Metropolitan areas • 46 (C category) District Municipalities • 232 (B category) Local Municipalities • District Management Areas in 14 of the District Councils.

  12. Cross Boundary Municipalities • During week of 21 February Board finalised all boundaries • Respective provincial legislatures to pass resolutions by April 15 2000. • Work on National Act and provincial agreements will then continue: (I) Finances (II) Provincial functions

  13. District Management Areas • Deserts and semi-desert areas • State-managed conservation areas • Special Economic Areas

  14. Powers and Functions

  15. Integrated development planning for the district Bulk supply of water Bulk supply of electricity Bulk sewage purification works and main sewage disposal Solid waste disposal sites Municipal roads (District) Regulation of passenger transport services. Municipal airports Municipal health services Fire fighting services Fresh produce markets and abattoirs Cemeteries and crematoria Local tourism Municipal public works The receipt, allocation and, if applicable, the distribution of grants The imposition and collection of taxes, levies and duties Powers and FunctionsSection 84(1) - MSA

  16. Air pollution Building regulations Child care facilities Electricity and gas reticulation Fire fighting services Local tourism Municipal airports Municipal planning Municipal health service Municipal public transport Municipal public works Pontoons, ferries, jetties ETC Storm water management Trading regulations Water and sanitation services Powers and FunctionsSchedule 4 Part B

  17. Beaches and amusement facilities Billboards /advertisements in public places Cemeteries etc Cleansing Control of public nuisances Liquor Control Animals Fencing and fences Licensing of dogs Licensing etc for the selling food to the public Local amenities Local sport facilities Markets Municipal abattoirs Municipal parks and recreation Municipal roads Noise pollution Pounds Public places Refuse removal, refuse dumps etc Street trading Street lighting Traffic and parking Powers and Functions Schedule 5 Part B

  18. Assessment of Capacity • Assessments completed • Working documents to be provided to MECs from 28 March 2000 • Detailed assessments to be available on 14 April 2000 • Board providing capacity to provincial Steering Committees

  19. Coordinating Committee • Powers and Functions • Finances • Section 12, Legal Issues and Transitional mechanisms

  20. Wards 1: Split VDs • The MDB and IEC identify and sort out the split Voting Districts. • Some 732 VDs split affecting 496431 voters. • The MDB and IEC together working through these.

  21. Wards 2: Decide on registration • Number of councillors and hence wards affected by the number of registered voters. • Recommendation: Board believes registration drive should be held in March 2000. • Voters could register according to existing VDs, except where VDs are too large or are split, in which case the IEC would design ‘new’ VDs and voters would register into these and those on the voters rolls in the split VDs would be allocated into these ‘new’ VDs.

  22. Wards 3: Public comment • On 14 March 2000, Board publishes each municipal boundary showing each VD and number of voters within that VD. • The Board requests public comment on how the VDs could be combined into wards based on the draft norms for each ward. Comment would have to be submitted to the Board by 31 March 2000.

  23. Ward 4: Draft wards On 10 April, based on the final registrations, councillor formulae and comment on wards, the Board would publish draft ward boundaries.

  24. Ward 5: ‘Hearings’ • Public hearings to get comment on ward boundaries • Completed by 20 April 2000 and then analysed.

  25. Ward 6: Finalisation • May 2: Board finalises wards and publishes for objections comment • May 29: Publish final boundaries • Note: The Board may finalise some boundaries earlier if completed.

  26. PROCESS • Still on track: • Final boundaries have been published week of 28/2 • Councillor formulae expected 31 March 2000 • Ward delimitation to be finalised by 29 May 2000 • Government service delivery alignments to commence

  27. Budget 2000/2001 • Finalising personnel (appointed Information officer and Executive Secretary) • Completing work for November elections and subcouncils in metropolitan areas • Developing policy on categories of municipality • Maintaining and coordinating integrated information base • Ad Hoc Demarcations

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