Budget Hearings: Portfolio Committee: 17 March 2000

1
Budget Hearings Portfolio Committee 17 March
2000
2
Boards 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
Boards 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
(No Transcript)
13
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

14
District Management Areas

• Deserts and semi-desert areas
• State-managed conservation areas
• Special Economic Areas

15
Powers and Functions
16
Powers and FunctionsSection 84(1) - MSA

• 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

17
Powers and FunctionsSchedule 4 Part B

• 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

18
Powers and Functions Schedule 5 Part B

• 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

19
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

20
Coordinating Committee

• Powers and Functions
• Finances
• Section 12, Legal Issues and Transitional
  mechanisms

21
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.

22
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.

23
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.

24
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.

25
Ward 5 Hearings

• Public hearings to get comment on ward boundaries
• Completed by 20 April 2000 and then analysed.

26
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.

27
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

28
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

29
(No Transcript)
30
(No Transcript)
31
(No Transcript)
32
(No Transcript)
33
(No Transcript)
34
(No Transcript)
35
(No Transcript)
36
(No Transcript)
37
(No Transcript)