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The retrenchment of workers currently employed with the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) is inevitable in the restructuring process,Cheap NFL Jerseys, which is expected to be implemented in the near future if the municipality is to operate with greater efficient.But although retrenchment is listed as one of the most crucial features of the restructuring process, Deputy Mayor Robert Williams during his presentation of the 2009 municipal budget last Monday disclosed that a total of 434 vacancies are yet to be filled within the various departments of the entity.According to Williams, the Constabulary Department of the municipality currently requires that a total of 107 people be employed, noting that persons are also very much needed in the area of carrying out drainage and road works as well as activities which fall within the building division.At the moment, Williams explained that the municipality is faced with a situation whereby some of its departments may be staffers that are not crucial to the municipal operations.“We may have four office assistants but we may only really need two and then we find that we have need for painters…So we will retrench two of the office assistants that we do not need and employ two painters who we need instead.”Williams, in his budget presentation, had revealed that failure to fill the hundreds of vacancies within the various departments resulted in excessive overtime cost, for example in areas of drainage,Cheap Jerseys, sluices, and security.City Mayor Hamilton Green had stressed the importance of the restructuring process which he had noted was progressing at an unacceptable pace.And the slow pace the Mayor has attributed to the reluctance at the level of the municipal administration and some aspects of the council to deal with fundamental issues that must be changed within the structure of the municipality.“I hope that the trauma which was experienced by the workers when they could not be paid in December should compel us to avoid this reluctance that is evident all over…”According to Mayor Green,Cheap Jerseys Supply, he has been trying to persuade his colleagues that business cannot continue as usual,Cheap China Jerseys, adding that he can no longer ignore the reluctance at the level of the administration and among some of the committees to “bite the bullet” and deal with the reality of the municipalities financial dilemma.It is anticipated by some close to the operation of the municipality that the urgency of the process will be emphasised and engaged soon after the recommendation of the Commissioner of Inquiry,Jerseys NFL China, Mr Keith Burrowes, is unveiled.Burrowes, who was tasked with conducting an inquiry into the financial affairs of the municipality at the request of Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Kellawan Lall, is expected to present a report of his findings and recommendations in a few weeks time.The inquiry was kicked into motion after it was suggested in a 2007 Auditor General Report on the municipality,Cheap NFL jerseys China, that there were financial irregularities and mismanagement at the entity which implicated the offices of the Town Clerk and the City Treasurer. |
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