By Correspondent
The Harare City Council presented its ZWL$4.5 billion 2020 budget on Tuesday and we have compiled some of the significant figures and facts from the document.
The City collected $203 million from operations as of 30 September 2019.
During the current financial year, Council managed to receive ZWL$12.9m from ZINARA.
When the vehicle-licensing portfolio was still under the City of Harare it managed to collect an average of $9 million annually.
For low-density areas, a 5% infrastructure development levy will be introduced in 2020.
Council’s beerhall company Rufaro Marketing has a debt of ZWL$4.83 million which has been recommended that the Council take over.
In order to alleviate the water challenges facing the residents of Harare Council is proposing to procure mobile water treatment plants at a cost of ZWL$ 375 million.
This year it received a total of $257 million dollars from Treasury and the breakdown is as follows:
PSIP (conditional) ZWL$ 140 000 000, IGTF ZWL$109 850 000 and intergovernmental fiscal transfer operational grant of ZWL$ 7 283. 000.00
Council managed to do only 10km of the targeted 545 km, then in terms of preventive maintenance, it did only 18 km of the targeted 585 km.
The projected cost of producing one cubic metre of water in 2020 is ZWL$20.12 up from ZWL$5.10 in 2019.
The social service programme is expected is to realise own revenue of ZWL$ 180.9 million from City Health fees ZWL$ 39.7 million Housing and Estates ZWL$ 112.8 million, Social service and Education ZWL$10.40 million and Informal sector ZWL$18.0 million. The shortfall from the programme is offset by property tax.
The following major provisions for the Water and Sanitation and Hygiene Programme: –
- Solid Waste ZWL$63.98million
- Water Services ZWL$ 872.4million
- Waste Water ZWL$ 548.4 million
- TOTAL WASH ZWL$ 1.485 billion
Capital budget allocations to the various subprograms within the governance program were made as follows: –
COUNCIL………………………………………. ZWL$ 6.22million
CEO……………………………………………….. ZWL$ 3.54 million
HUMAN RESOURCES …………………… ZWL$ 0.65 million
FINANCE………………………………………ZWL$3.69million
TECHNICAL SERVICES ………………… ZWL$ 36.32 million
TOTAL ……………………………………… ZWL$ 50.4 million
The total budget is as follows:
Capital budget ZWL$1689 070 238
Revenue Budget ZWL$ 2 904 699 481
Total ZWL$ 4 593 769 719
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