Mayor calls for unity

ture of dialogue and working together to create an environment for investment promotion and quality service delivery.

Clr Ncube made the remarks while addressing residents and businessmen among other stakeholders at a 2018 budget review meeting held in the border town last week.

He said prior to the budget review meeting, they (municipality) had started consulting different players to get their inputs for the 2019 budget.

“As a local authority which values public participation and transparency, we saw it fit to invite all of you to come so that we share how we performed over the last six months,” said Clr Ncube. “The work done by your municipality in the last six months was out of your contributions to its budget through payment of rates and services.

“Our current annual budget stands at $6.1 million and we have lined up a number of developmental projects which are at various levels of implementation. These came from the rate payers, businesses and other stakeholders through our social dialogue.

“It is our wish that we increase cooperation in all our programmes as we seek to transform the town with a shared vision. We hope you have always found these annual half year budget reviews useful.

“It is very critical that we continue giving