March 2, 2012
Better rubbish collection on the way with RM20mil allocation
Star
THE Seberang Prai Municipal Council (MPSP) will come up with a better arrangement to handle garbage collection and cleaning services after receiving a RM20mil allocation from the state government.
Council president Maimunah Mohd Sharif said the amount was in addition to MPSP’s own allocation of RM65mil for the services that was approved last October under the council’s Budget 2012.
“We welcome the additional sum, which we will use to buy related equipment and vehicles, and employ more general workers,” she said.
Maimunah said the state executive council, which approved the RM20mil last month, had asked MPSP to review and restructure its arrangement on garbage collection and cleaning services.
She said the state exco had also asked MPSP to cancel the appointment of new private cleaning contractors, although more than 2,000 tender applications were received when tender closed on Oct 17 last year.
“MPSP was in the midst of short-listing the applicants but had yet to pick the successful ones,” she said.
Maimunah said MPSP had initially proposed to integrate its cleaning services by dividing the work into 37 zones, whereby 33 zones would be privatised, while four zones would be handled by MPSP itself.
Each contractor, she said, was supposed to handle garbage collection, drain-sweeping and tree-pruning within a particular zone, as opposed to the present arrangement where 110 contractors handled different jobs all over the mainland.
“The state is receptive towards our integrated system proposal, but wants us to review our zone arrangement to have MPSP cover more zones and depend less on the private contractors.
“Perhaps this way, we can provide more job opportunities to locals, as MPSP only hires locals compared to the private contractors which hire mainly foreign workers,” said Maimunah after chairing a full council meeting at the MPSP headquarters in Bandar Perda, Bukit Mertajam, on Wednesday.
She said the council would renew the contracts of the existing private contractors on a month-to-month basis up to June before coming up with a better arrangement.
PKR whip Johari Kassim, however, said he was disappointed with the state exco’s decision to cancel the appointment of new private contractors, as fellow municipal councillors had deliberated at length with council officers last year to come up with the zone-based integrated cleaning service plan.
He said there was a pressing need to appoint new cleaning contractors as the existing contracts that were signed in 2006 expired last December.
“It will be easier to terminate private contractors when they cannot deliver, but it might be difficult to do the same to the council’s own staff when they fail to do the job well,” he said.
Better rubbish collection on the way with RM20mil allocation
Star
THE Seberang Prai Municipal Council (MPSP) will come up with a better arrangement to handle garbage collection and cleaning services after receiving a RM20mil allocation from the state government.
Council president Maimunah Mohd Sharif said the amount was in addition to MPSP’s own allocation of RM65mil for the services that was approved last October under the council’s Budget 2012.
“We welcome the additional sum, which we will use to buy related equipment and vehicles, and employ more general workers,” she said.
Maimunah said the state executive council, which approved the RM20mil last month, had asked MPSP to review and restructure its arrangement on garbage collection and cleaning services.
She said the state exco had also asked MPSP to cancel the appointment of new private cleaning contractors, although more than 2,000 tender applications were received when tender closed on Oct 17 last year.
“MPSP was in the midst of short-listing the applicants but had yet to pick the successful ones,” she said.
Maimunah said MPSP had initially proposed to integrate its cleaning services by dividing the work into 37 zones, whereby 33 zones would be privatised, while four zones would be handled by MPSP itself.
Each contractor, she said, was supposed to handle garbage collection, drain-sweeping and tree-pruning within a particular zone, as opposed to the present arrangement where 110 contractors handled different jobs all over the mainland.
“The state is receptive towards our integrated system proposal, but wants us to review our zone arrangement to have MPSP cover more zones and depend less on the private contractors.
“Perhaps this way, we can provide more job opportunities to locals, as MPSP only hires locals compared to the private contractors which hire mainly foreign workers,” said Maimunah after chairing a full council meeting at the MPSP headquarters in Bandar Perda, Bukit Mertajam, on Wednesday.
She said the council would renew the contracts of the existing private contractors on a month-to-month basis up to June before coming up with a better arrangement.
PKR whip Johari Kassim, however, said he was disappointed with the state exco’s decision to cancel the appointment of new private contractors, as fellow municipal councillors had deliberated at length with council officers last year to come up with the zone-based integrated cleaning service plan.
He said there was a pressing need to appoint new cleaning contractors as the existing contracts that were signed in 2006 expired last December.
“It will be easier to terminate private contractors when they cannot deliver, but it might be difficult to do the same to the council’s own staff when they fail to do the job well,” he said.
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