The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) on Monday approved its 2022 budget which is in excess of $2 billion.
In a Georgetown Mayor and City Council Facebook post on Monday night, it was stated, “The Mayor and Councilors of the city of Georgetown this morning approved the 2022 budget of over 2 billion dollars.”
The M&CC budget was presented by Councillor Oscar Clarke, Chairman of the Finance Committee.
According to the post, the 2022 budget estimates will focus on the areas of Public Health, as well as the City Engineer and Solid Waste departments. It will also seek to improve all areas of expenditure and create new revenue paths to meet the core needs and services of the citizens of Georgetown.
It was also noted that the council remains open to collaborations in order to ensure the continued services for the citizens of the city.
M&CC councillors deliberated on the estimates and gave the allocations their blessing.
On January 6 this year, the mayor had announced a 10 per cent increase in salaries and wages for all M&CC staff. “So the total staff will receive a 5 per cent salary increase from 2021 retroactive January and going forward a next 5 per cent from January 2022, so in all they will receive 10 per cent in salary increase.”
The source of that increase would be from the amnesty policy that the committee had implemented along with the usual tax revenues. The amnesty policy started in December of last year and will end on March 31 of this year.
Stabroek News contacted the City Engineer, Colvern Venture, and Solid Waste Director, Walter Narine, who both said that they will be reviewing the budget and will be sending in their letters for the “requisite features” for their respective departments.
