EThekwini Exco November 2020

EThekwini Municipality’s Executive Committee held its ordinary meeting on 17 November 2020.

CITY RECEIVED THE HIGHEST ACCOLADE FOR BUILT ENVIRONMENT PERFORMANCE PLAN

The City’s Built Environment Performance Plan (BEPP) was recognised by receiving a Platinum Award by an independent agency appointed by National Treasury. Their results reflected a 110% improvement from 2019/2020 to the 2020/2021 BEPP. Improvement was also noted in aligning and obtaining public sector expenditure in the municipality as well as clear evidence of Spatial Targeting and Outcome Based Planning.

Presenting the outcomes of the assessment to the Executive Committee, Chief Strategy Officer, Adrian Peters, explained that this was a great accomplishment for the City as the Platinum status is the highest achievement awarded. The BEPP was adopted at Full Council in May this year, along with the IDP and MTREF. The BEPP will, from next year, no longer be a strategic planning document but incorporated into the IDP and SDF of the municipality.

Whilst this can be added to the many accolades awarded to the City, improvements needed to be addressed in the following areas:

• The City needs to clearly articulate its Theory of Change
• City to ensure that the Monitoring and Evaluating indicators as per Circular 88 are addressed fully in the BEPP
• The City to continue its efforts to Implement Strategy-Led Budgeting
• The City needs to consider the adoption spatial planning, prioritisation and budgeting tools

The following recommendations were approved at the meeting chaired by the Mayor Cllr Mxolisi Kaunda and attended by members of the Executive Committee.

GRANT-IN-AID CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOPS

Recommendation was approved for authority be granted to Community Participation and Action Support Unit to proceed with their Grant-in-Aid capacity workshops that would incur expenditure to the amount of R452 400.00. The workshops comprise of four modules and are structured into two phases as follows:

(i) Block 1: Mandatory to capacitate beneficiaries prior to being given funding as well as the process to be followed to access Grant-in-Aid funding

(ii) Block 2: Beneficiaries that had been shortlisted.

The agreed workshop programme is one day and would span the entire day, to allow sufficient time for the facilitator to cover all relevant aspects of the Grant-in-Aid module and qualifying criteria.

SOUTH AFRICAN NEW BUILDING PROGRAMME

The Executive Committee approved for the Energy Office to continue to work on the C40 New Building Programme for another six months with the intention to ensure that all new buildings are net -zero carbon by 2030.

PROGRESS REPORT ON INTERNAL AUDIT REVIEW OF COVID_19 PROCURMENT EXPENDITURE

The above report was deferred back to Audit Committee for recommendations for the Executives Committee’s consideration to be tabled at the next meeting.