Some important clarification by Mayor of Kota Kinabalu

Some important clarification by Mayor of Kota Kinabalu

Recently, there was a statement that Kota Kinabalu would be a liveable city by 2022, and not now.  This Sunday Daily Express published a fairly detailed interview with the fourth Mayor of Kota Kinabalu.  In the interview, there was no references to the scenario of liveable city but I would like to refer to several matters raised therein.

The breakdown of the sources of KKCH revenue in 2015 was as follows: assessment rates (72.4pc), licences (9.7pc), fees (3.9pc), compound (3.2pc), property management (2.4pc), interest and dividend (2.4pc), conservancy fee/sewerage (1.4pc), rental (1pc), miscellaneous (0.5pc) and annual grant from the Federal Government (3.1pc).

I do not see any revenue from the parking charges by coupons started in October, 2014 in the breakdown of revenue. Can it be included under miscellaneous?

Compound at 3.2 % was quite substantial amounting to RM4m and more and how would such compound be utilised for the betterment of the consumers to learn from such faults?

Datuk Mayor mentioned the relocating SK Tanjung Aru would only start and "The new school will be built after the TAED gets final approval."  Where would such fund come from to rebuild the school timely without disturbing or disrupting the semesters of the thousands of school children for the education cannot be broken as TAB would be” closed” soon?

DBKK spent around RM882,000 to maintain existing parks and the revenue of DBKK is about RM140m.  We were told by the promoters of Tanjung Aru Eco Development Sdn. Bhd. that the budget of about RM45m annually to maintain the artificial reclaimed beach and the Prince Philip Park as expanded.  So would the Mayor tell us how would RM45m come from while the said project is still very much in progress as there would not be any revenue thereof?  Mayor Datuk Yeo had indicated that RM140m is just enough for its present affairs of Kota Kinabalu City.  Annual grant from Federal Government is 3.2% amounting to less than RM4m.

Joshua Y C Kong 6^th February, 2017