In these hard times, a special full council meeting to discuss the budget has been told that the council is owed P10 million in rates and that in an entire year, it can only raise P50 in dog tax, while revenue from the stadium has fallen from nearly P200,000 to P97,000. The meeting was told that currently, the council does not have the capacity to licence more than 10 dogs in a financial year. Dog licences cost P5.
"We are discussing this with our by-law department to come up with strategies of licencing dogs because we are not doing enough as council," said one council official.Chairman of Finance and General Purposes Committee, Councillor Lekang Mukokomani expressed the need for by-laws to address meetings to create awareness on licensing of dogs because council can make a lot of money from it. He regretted that revenue from the stadium is going down at a time when the council need money most. "Instead of revenue going up our figures continue to go down. Our marketing department must pull up their socks because the stadium is a commodity that can generate more money for the council. Under-utilisation of our stadium as a result of relegation of local teams to lower divisions also affects the town," he said.
