As Mogale City reaches the halfway mark of the 2018/2019 Integrated Development Planning (IDP) and Budget compilation process, Executive Mayor Patrick Lipudi and his team brace themselves for a further week of rigorous public participation meetings.
The purpose of the roadshows is to prepare a strategic development plan, which primarily is the principal strategic instrument guiding all planning, management, investment, development and implementation of decisions that takes into account input from all stakeholders across Mogale City constituency. The process plan enhances integration and alignment between the IDP and Budget, thereby ensuring the development of an IDP based budget.
This process follows the collection of community needs that took place in the Mayoral Roadshows in November 2017.
As the executive mayor traverses Mogale City to give a report back on the past, current and future programmes and projects, most if not all public engagements have been quite fruitful and informative. Out of nine IDP meetings held this past week, only two were disrupted. “Taking local government to the people will never be a walk in the park but it is not only a legislative requirement but a commitment that we have made as the leadership of Mogale City Local Municipality, to ensure that we continue to engage with the people in give public participation practical meaning,” said the Executive Mayor.
The Executive Mayor further encouraged members of the community to attend the remaining IDP meetings so that the final lap of public engagements yields the intended results of taking local government to the people.