The Mayor and City Council is looking to urgently relocate its Treasurer’s Department to the recently rehabilitated Kitty Market following the development of mould and fungus within City Hall.
“Fungus is taking over the ceiling and wall and it is unhealthy to have such a work environment so we have to relocate them somewhere. It is risking the life of staff having them where there is a fire threat, fungus, water falling down and little creatures running around. You know the creatures I’m talking about,” Mayor Ubraj Narine told yesterday’s statutory meeting.
Acting Town Clerk Sharon Harry-Monroe further explained that the Kitty Market which is currently housing the Office of the Clerk of Markets will be called upon to offer temporary space to the Treasurer’s department as well.
The Office of the Clerk of Markets was recently relocated from the Stabroek Market following the development of similarly deplorably conditions.
Meanwhile, the staff of the Treasurer’s Department has been granted a bonus of 1% of the revenue collected in January as a reward for their hard work.
According to the Minutes of the Statutory Meeting of May 22 these monies are to be paid out following council’s approval of a proposal from the Finance Committee.
The City has for the first four months of 2019 collected $910,799,802 million in revenue; $196 million of which was collected during the month of April.
According to the Treasurer’s report of April 2019, the rates collected last month topped $128 million while more than $656 million in rates were collected so far in 2019.
Revenue from the Market alone was in excess of $22.6 million in April and $88.8 million in 2019 so far while Container fees of $29 million were collected in April and $61 million for the first four months of 2019.
Sundries which included fees from street vendors was in excess of $16 million for April and $104.6 million for the year so far.
While the income reflected for 2019 is more than that of 2018, which was $169.6 million for the same period the expenditure is significantly less.
In the first four months of 2018, $203.1 million was spent by council while a little more than $165.7 million was spent during the same period in 2019.
