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Council Just Wasted R18 304.50

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In 2018 it was estimated that the NMB Council cost residents around R73.2 Million per year. At a 4% annual increase that number equals R85.6 Million p/a in today’s money.

Today’s Council meeting was supposed to start at 10:00 am today – it is now 10:30 am.

A working month consists of 21.65 days of 9 hours each – the equivalent of 2338.2 hours.

Council then costs R36 609 per hour or R610.15 per minute of every working day.

If we take JUST the 30 minutes that we have been waiting then Council has just wasted R18 304.50.

UPDATE: Council started at 11:08 am which translates into a R41 490.20 in WASTED expenditure.

Second UPDATE: At 11:55 am Council completed voting in an Acting Speaker (see below*) to start and conduct the meeting. Muller will be transported to the venue housing the City Manager and Mayor so that he can run the meeting which was adjourned for 15 minutes to allow him to make the journey.

Take the Municipal Admin staff, media and other guests who are now waiting around twiddling their thumbs (and not being slightly productive such as I) then the amount of fruitless and wasteful expenditure will be much higher.

* The nominations for Acting Speaker were:

DA – Heinrich Muller (DA, EFF, FF+, ACDP)
ANC – Mafaya (ANC)

The other parties abstained and Muller was voted in as acting Speaker.

Khusta Jack said; “AIM cannot participate in proceedings presided over by a tainted City Manager and Mayor.”

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