City Hall wants Govt. to foot street lighting Bill

Mar 15, 2012 News

With a modest budget of $1.9B this year, City Council is hoping that Central Government would relieve it of its heavy street lighting bill.
According to Junior Garrett, Chairman of the Finance Committee, the budget seeks Government’s assistance for the write-off of the sum of $825M, which was incurred by the City as a result of street lighting.
He suggested that Government should take responsibility for street lighting from January 2012 since illuminated streets assist in security, which is a national issue.
Garrett related that City Hall has no control over Government and community controlled roadways which have street lights on them.
However, he said the electricity bills for those lights are sent to City Hall.
He stressed that Council is expected to pay, even if the lights are non-operational since the bills are always estimated.
Garrett emphasized that City Council definitely does not have the ability to pay for street lighting without increasing residential and commercial rates and taxes to 100 per cent and 500 per cent valuations respectively.
However, there is no guarantee that taxpayers would be able to pay this amount.
Garrett noted that City Council would be hard pressed, given its present rates and taxes regime to pay the outstanding Guyana Power and Light debt, while at the same time meeting the cost of garbage collection, drainage works and security.
He related that the Council has already commenced a campaign to reduce telephone costs.

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