Francistown Council Increases Rates

Francistown Civic Centre PIC: THALEFANG CHARLS
Francistown Civic Centre PIC: THALEFANG CHARLS

FRANCISTOWN: The Francistown City Council (FCC) service rates will increase effective today, the city’s finance committee, Lesego Kwambala said on Friday.

Kwambala, who is also the Itekeng ward councillor, briefed the media saying the council took a decision to revise the tariffs every two years. Some of the rates remain unchanged. Kwambala said there was an adopted approach in reviewing the new tariffs such as benchmarking at local and regional authoritative and a transparent tariff toolkit from South Africa and Namibia. Kwambala indicated that the tariff calculations applied per service was determined by the level of consumption, cost of service and strategic decisions. “We also followed certain principles when coming up with these tariffs. The tariff principles applied include revenue sufficiency, economic efficiency, equity and fairness.

Tariff setting must be fair and transparent to all citizens,” he said. He added that from the tariffs review, the committee recommended that the council should continue identifying other new sources of revenue to argue its income. Kwambala said the review also recommended the council reviews all the existing by-laws to incorporate the issue of new tariffs. The last review was in 2016. Street vendors’ certification is now at a cost of P150 up from P100.

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