City Hall’s lack of resources is perennial

Feb 16, 2018 News

City Hall seems to be in a deplorable state as it relates to the management of its resources and or the lack thereof. While nothing might be legally wrong with city’s hall’s intention to give out the “After Mash” cleaning to a contractor, the excuse of a lack of resources and unpaid contractors is becoming repetitive and overbearing in the ears of the citizens of this country.
December 6, 2016, a popular online news source reported that $175 million was being sought by City Council from the Government to pay contractors, who threatened to withdraw their services since November 14, 2016; City council did not have the resources.
On July 8, 2017, the Mayor quoted in a newspaper, said that “we are in a crisis, we need all the help we can get”, as she referred to the lack of resources to pay the contractors. At that time, the Mayor was asking contractors to wait.
Back in 2017 August 6, it was Cevon’s Waste Management and Puran Brothers Disposal Inc. who decided not to collect garbage anymore because “hundreds of millions” as was reported in another daily newspaper, was owed to them dating back to 2015. This was as a result of the council’s lack of financial resources.
Now in 2018 February, the council is saying again that it lacks the resources necessary to clean up the day after Mash and would have to get a contractor to do it.
Mash is an every year event and not a happening, pulled out of thin air. With all the problems city hall has had in paying contractors, it begs the question, “Why wasn’t the same money that would be used to pay contractors, be used by city hall to get the job done?”
Would this be another case of contractors being owed by the council because of a lack of financial resources to pay?

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