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City Hall and Town Clerk go head to head over Mash vending lot allocations

Feb 14, 2013 News

While the nation gears for the annual Mashramani celebrations, City Hall and its acting Town Clerk, Carol Sooba, are bumping heads over the issuance, allocation and sale of vending lots for the festival. City Hall has accused the Town Clerk of deliberately avoiding the decisions of the Council which she is supposed to be executing.
Kaieteur News was told that at City Hall’s Georgetown Municipality’s statutory meeting held on January 9, a decision was taken that the Social Development Committee headed by Patricia Chase-Greene, was supposed to identify, allocate and sell to persons requesting vending lots for the Mash.
The Committee was tasked with identifying the lots at the Merriman Mall and other Council-designated areas for persons desirous of doing business for Mash. It was said that it is customary for the Council to allow the SDC to manage the sale of such spots.
However, the acting Town Clerk, instead of implementing the Council’s wishes, “has taken it up upon herself to ignore the decisions and is in fact managing the area herself.”
Several memoranda from Mayor, Hamilton Green and from Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase- Greene, have been sent to the Clerk on the matter, but according to City Hall, she has refused to comply and acknowledge the decision of the Council. The Clerk has started the allocation process without the Council’s consent.
It was explained to the newspaper that, “Once the Council makes a decision, it is final and every officer, especially the Town Clerk, should abide.”
It was also said that, “A two-thirds majority vote or until six months after a decision is made, the Council cannot overturn its own decision. Yet the Town Clerk has ignored that Council’s rulings.”
The City Hall officer said that the Town Clerk has no right or authority to act the way she does, the officer added. “She is in direct violation of her duties.”
Sooba has offered no explanation for her actions, the Council officer said.
At the Council’s statutory meeting held on Monday, the Town Clerk faced immense heat when Councilors descended on her for what they said was her blatant disregard for executing decisions made at the duly constituted Georgetown Municipality’s statutory meetings.

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