Political drama will not hamper service delivery
The Bitou Municipality has assured residents that service delivery has continued unhampered despite the political drama in Plettenberg Bay over the past few weeks.
Municipal spokesman Manfred van Rooyen said the office of the municipal manager wanted to assure the residents of Bitou that service delivery had continued unhampered and would continue to do so.
“The municipality daily fulfils its constitutional and legal mandate to provide basic services to the citizens of Bitou Municipality,” Van Rooyen said.
He added that the cost implications of the latest in Bitou’s recent political saga for taxpayers in Bitou would be minimised. This relates to a court application by the DA to declare a special council meeting – during which a successful vote of no confidence was brought against two of the party’s councillors – illegal.
“Bitou Municipality has now learnt that the DA has withdrawn their application on 7 May. The municipality, as the first respondent in this matter, notes the withdrawal of the case and welcomes the fact that the DA as applicants in the matter, has tendered taxed costs, to the Bitou Municipality.
“Given this undertaking, the cost implications by the tax-payers of Bitou, for the legal fees the municipality had to incur to defend this matter; will be minimised.”
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Source: Knysna Plett Herald News