Council has set targets for all its departments to raise funds to improve service delivery pursuing non-traditional revenue streams.
Council has set targets for all its departments to raise funds to improve service delivery pursuing non-traditional revenue streams.
Acting finance director, Mr Godfrey Kusangaya in a Special Council meeting expressed great concern over the decline in revenue collection.
He said this was adversely affecting the quality of service delivery.
“Our collection efficiency stands at 45 percent, which means service delivery is suffering and we cannot continue like that,” said Mr Kusangaya.
Mr Kusangaya urged departments to diligently take charge of their revenue generation streams as revenue generation resides in departments and called for all revenue generating streams to be closely monitored to avoid hemorrhaging.
“Council through the Chairperson of the Human Resources and General Purposes Committee to constitute a committee that cuts across all committees for the purpose of monitoring and driving the revenue maximisation agenda,” he said.
He said there would be a quarterly review of each Department’s performance against set targets.
“All activities at District level should be superintended by the District Officer with all staff reporting to the District Officer administratively and functionally to their respective departments,” he said.
Traditional revenue streams include trenching permits, illegal dump fees, building plan submission, environmental regulatory fees and permit and inspection certificate fees.
The departments involved in the revenue collection are the Department of Works, Harare Water, Finance Department, Department of City Health Services, Department of Housing and Community Services and Chamber Secretary.
