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Council blows $1 million in overtime allowances
13 May 2014 at 07:43hrs | Views
The Bulawayo City Council has blown $1 million in overtime allowances in one month at a time when residents have been challenging city officials over deteriorating service delivery.
In February council paid 34 times more in overtime payments for a single department where the overtime bill rose from $12. 941. 06 to $448 89, 20 paid the previous month.
Latest council minutes indicate overtime allowances have been soaring to unsustainable levels since December last year.
Bulawayo Mayor Martin Moyo attributed the massive increase on overtime allowances to a job freeze undertaken by the local authority in light of current liquidity crunch.
He said the authority had 3000 workers instead of 5000 hence the gap is met through overtime hours.
Meanwhile, BCC intends to borrow $13 million to rehabilitate the city's sewer reticulation infrastructure.
In an advertisement published in the press yesterday, the BCC town clerk Middleton Nyoni indicated that council required a $13 261 600 loan for the project, subject to approval by the ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing.
In February council paid 34 times more in overtime payments for a single department where the overtime bill rose from $12. 941. 06 to $448 89, 20 paid the previous month.
Latest council minutes indicate overtime allowances have been soaring to unsustainable levels since December last year.
He said the authority had 3000 workers instead of 5000 hence the gap is met through overtime hours.
Meanwhile, BCC intends to borrow $13 million to rehabilitate the city's sewer reticulation infrastructure.
In an advertisement published in the press yesterday, the BCC town clerk Middleton Nyoni indicated that council required a $13 261 600 loan for the project, subject to approval by the ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing.
Source - Dailynews
