Infrastructure allocation

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BACKGROUND

• The core responsibilities of the department are
  as follows
• Provide and maintain infrastructure
• Assist client departments to construct and lease
  building facilities.
• NB Although the department is the implementing
  agent for the above funds for infrastructure
  resort with client departments

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Expenditure 2005/06

• The department was during the 2005/2006 financial
  year allocated a total amount of R338m and R335m
  was spent leaving a saving of R3m.
• Of this amount, a total of R253.199m was spent on
  infrastructure.
• Notably, the bulk of the funding was expended on
  the maintenance and upgrading of roads, these two
  items accounted for 69 of the total
  infrastructure expenditure.

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Conditional Grant Allocation

• Out of the R253m spent on infrastructure
• R113 million was conditional grants,
• the province expended a total amount of R140
  million as part of its equitable share.

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CAPACITY WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT

• Deficiencies in department capacity
• The department is not only confronted with the
  equity profile challenge in the engineering
  profession, but also the competition for
  engineering skills with the private sector has
  intensified with the focus put on infrastructure
  economic development.
• Retention Strategy
• The department already reviewed the salaries of
  Engineers through the job evaluation process
• state owned housing to be utilized for the
  housing of employees identified as scarce skills.
  
• appointing Mentors to assist the Technical
  personnel to register with their respective
  councils
• the introduction of scarce skills allowance

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Service Level Agreements

• Only the Department of Education in the province
  has signed such an agreement.
• The department has also entered into service
  level agreements with four of the five district
  municipalities that serve as agencies for the
  department in the re-gravelling and maintenance
  of gravel roads in the province.