City Hall dismissals...Implement recommendations to avert future mismanagement - Burrowes

City Hall dismissals…Implement recommendations to avert future mismanagement – Burrowes

Jan 04, 2013 News

The sacking of several officers of the Georgetown Municipality comes as a direct result of the findings that were unearthed by the Keith Burrowes-led Implementation Committee. The Committee had found a number of discrepancies in the operation of the municipality and had brought on board reputable Economist Ramon Gaskin to validate the damning findings.
In addition to confirming what the Committee had revealed, Gaskin was also able to detect other inconsistencies which resulted in both the Auditor General’s Office and the Police being called in. Several officers were sent home pending investigations. Some of them have since been sacked by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, under whose purview the municipality falls.
However, while Burrowes, who is the Chairman of the Implementation Committee, says that he is pleased that expeditious action was taken following an investigation by the Auditor General, he is still concerned that more needs to be done to prevent further mismanagement at the city entity.
“It is unprecedented that a Town Clerk and Treasurer of a municipality would be dismissed and the same thing repeats itself,” said Burrowes, as he alluded to a similar state of affairs a few years earlier where the then Town Clerk and City Treasurer were sacked in the face of financial mismanagement reports.
This should have never occurred, Burrowes opined, since according to him “it follows logically that if you don’t take action, things will happen again. The 100-odd recommendations that the Committee had given were not implemented. The Council had a comprehensive report to work with.”
According to Burrowes, there is need for the Ministry together with the Town Council to identify specific deadlines with a view to implementing the recommendations of the Committee. This, he emphasised, is essential to ward off other potential cases of mismanagement at City Hall.
“I would like the Ministry and the Town Council to map out an arrangement to ensure that the recommendations are implemented. There must also be a proper monitoring system so that we will not have this situation occurring again.”
Burrowes asserted that he and a few members of the Committee are “more than willing” to continue to render assistance to the municipality with a view to improving its operations.
Even as he offered comments on the dismissal of the officers, Burrowes said that he will make available to the media an in-depth statement on the matter.

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