COUNCILLORS in Dar es Salaam yesterday approved a budget of 20.27bn/- for the 2017/18 fiscal year, among others, for execution of a number of development projects.
This year’s budget proposal stood at
7.7bn/-. In a two-day meeting held in the city, the City Deputy Mayor,
Mr Mussa Kafana, said that 62 per cent of budget is set for development
projects.
“The flow of our budget has risen from
year to year. In 2015/16 estimated domestic revenue was increased from
7.16 to 7.75 in 2016/17 equivalent to 8.22 per cent.
In the year 2017/18, we expect to
increase the budget from 8.22 per cent to 121.03 per cent, the main
reasons being due to the increase of tax collection especially in car
parking and increase of tax rates in several areas,” he said.
He said that the priorities of the
budget include improving the income of the council, construction and
rehabilitation of buildings, roads and bus terminals in the city.
He added that the priorities would also
be in investment sites and apartments, to improve supportive and
supervision on regional referral hospitals and regional hospitals and to
coordinate and monitor the improvement of maternal health and
childcare.
“This budget has been tailored to finish
the ongoing projects and to implement new projects which will bring
productivity to Dar es Salaam residents. The budget has risen from 8.223
per cent to 121 .03 per cent,” he said.
For her part, the Dar es Salaam City
Council Director, Ms Spora Liana, said that the budget would help to
finish many projects and to implement new projects for the development
of its residents.
“We hope this is the biggest changes to
our city since our budget has increased twice compared to all other city
budgets for all past years. We hope the budget will be used as planned
for the development of the nation,” she said.
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