Comments on FFC Annual Submission for 2006/07

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• Comments on FFC Annual Submission for 2006/07

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• BASIC PRINCIPLES
• The Constitution commits government to take
  reasonable measures,within its available
  resources to ensure that all South Africans have
  access to adequate housing, health care, social
  welfare and access roads and public transport
  services

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• BASIC PRINCIPLES
• Local government is uniquely placed to analyse
  and understand power dynamics within a community,
  and ensure that those who tend to be excluded and
  marginalised can become active and equal
  participants in community processes and the
  transformation of the settlements where they
  live.

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• HEALTH CONDITIONAL GRANTS
• SALGA support the recommendations of FFC
  regarding the conditional grants in question
• Recommendations contained on annexure 82 from
  previous submissions should be revisited because
• Environmental health services is under funded at
  the local level and those municipalities with
  weaker fiscal capacity such as districts continue
  to be compromise.

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• HEALTH CONDITIONAL GRANT
• The inclusion of EHS to basic services will
  compromise the national definition of 'basic
  services" and may lead also to proposal for
  inclusion of other services such social welfare.

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• FINANCING SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES
• In setting norms and standards for funding of
  delivery of social welfare services government
  must take into account the following
• That municipalities have the constitutional power
  to provide child care facilities, and may provide
  grants to associations for this purpose in terms
  of the Child Care Act.
• That municipalities currently tend to link the
  delivery of social welfare services to their own
  indigent programmes.

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• ASSIGNMENT OF POWER AND FUNCTIONS
• The powers and functions of local government
  should be exercised in a way that has a maximum
  impact on the social development of communities -
  in particular meeting the basic needs of the poor
  and on the growth of the economy.
• As much as SALGA supports recommendations is
  chapter timeframe should be Set with regard to
  the finalisation of the framework

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• FUNDING FRAMEWORK FOR HOUSING DELIVERY
• Recommendations as set out in 3 must clearly
  indicate that no funding gap should be allowed in
  any accredited municipalities and government must
  consider transferring allocated funds in periodic
  installments which must reflected in DORA of each
  year.
• Additional recommendation should be made that the
  accreditation process should be subject to the
  procedures for assignment as outlined in
  Municipal Systems Act

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• Transport funding
• Issues provided for in recommendation one should
  be attached timeframes.
• When developing funding framework for roads
  government must take into account that schedule 5
  (Part B) of the Constitution determines that
  municipal roads are a functional responsibility
  of the local government sphere and in this
  context, consideration will be given to assigning
  a percentage of the fuel levy to local
  government.

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• TRANSPORT FUNDING
• Vehicle licensing function is assigned on agency
  basis to municipalities in some provinces
• the challenge is that provinces are not prepared
  to adjust the agreements entered into in order to
  Cater for actual Costs of rendering the service
• thus some municipalities are forced to absorb the
  ufunded portions of actual expenses incurred in
  rendering this function.

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• THANK YOU