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Chililabombwe Council approves K85.6m budget

Chililabombwe Municipal Council has approved a budget of K85, 645, 607.00 for the 2019 Civic year.
Speaking during the 2019 budget presentation, Finance, Valuation and Commercial Undertakings and General Purposes Committee Chairperson Councillor Lewis Mwila reminded the house that Government expected all Councils to be innovative and proactive in revenue mobilization, hence management and his Committee had strategized on some revenue sources that would be able to sustain the 2019 budget.
Mr. Mwila stated that K73, 961, 907 of the 2019 budget would be financed through locally generated revenue, whilst K10, 284, 000 and K1, 400, 000 would be funded through National Support Grants and Constituency Development Fund (CDF) respectively.
He went on to state that Council had increased Ward Development Fund (WDF) from K75,000 to K80, 000 per ward translating into K1.76 million for all the 22 wards.
“This was in order to efficiently and effectively provide the basic community needs of the respective ward,” he said.
Mr. Mwila also said that the Council had also set aside K30.4 Million resulting in 41.2% of the budget for provision of service delivery as per the Ministerial Guidelines and also to improve the life of the residents in line with the Councils’ strategic plan.
He further stated that notable projects to be funded in the 2019 budget among others included, construction of a modern bus station in the Central Business District, purchase of a bull dozer for opening up of new roads, legalization of unplanned settlement areas such as Kawama and PP Zambia, construction of a new dump site and maintenance of feeder roads in the peri-urban areas.
Speaking earlier, Chililabombwe Mayor Christerbel Mulala urged all Councillors and Management to work together in order to raise money to fund the 2019 budget if the planned projects and programmes were to be actualized.
The 2019 budget of K85, 645, 607.00 indicates an increase of 29.9% against the previous budget of K65, 900, 170.00.

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