-councillors in heated clash over letter
The Mayor and City Council’s budget for 2024 is now set for presentation on Monday, June 3rd.
The announcement was made following an exchange between councillors Lelon Saul of APNU and Alfonso De Armas-Archbold of the PPP/C at Tuesday’s statutory meeting.
Saul addressed a letter written by De Armas-Archbold in the May 26 Sunday Stabroek headlined `The Mayor and City Council is still to present and approve a budget for fiscal year 2024.’ Saul said he was “taken aback and shocked beyond measure”. He charged that the letter was written to mislead the public “by now we should understand the role of councillors and administration. This council would have sat and decided on the budget and we would have given instructions on a way forward how it should be done. The council does not sit down and write the budget it is for the administration to prepare the budget, we give instructions and they understand that”. He said the council is aware of the challenges in the administration. He said that saying otherwise or to give an impression that the council is incompetent is an offence to him since he is the chairman of the council’s Finance Committee.