Entire Document - Chris Hani District Municipality

Challenges
Measurable Outcome
• Internal recruitment process delaying rather than assisting.
• Not adequately trained staff employed to fill critical positions.
• Employee attitudes towards work and inability/reluctance to institute remedial Council
disciplinary
• Measures by the employer.
• Problems experienced with link to install training material.
• Service provider for MFMA competency levels requirements training still to commence assessment
process.
External Institutional Capacity
Activities/Project Description • Roll out e-Venus accounting system to willing Local Municipalities.
• Ensure smooth running of the last two implementing local municipalities.
Project Leader Mr Pambaniso Mr. Silangwe
Budget 2008/2009 R2 000 000
Key Deliverables
• Complete implementation at Intsika Yethu LM.
• Proceed to implement at next LM.
• Presentation made to Inxuba Yethemba in the absence of any progress with Tsolwana.
Due Date June 2009
Percent Complete 30 %
Budget Spent R913 872 as at end June 2009
Stakeholders/Partners
Challenges
Accounting system Service provider & Local Municipalities
• Next LM (Tsolwana) showed new interest in proceeding with the implementation, but then did
not honour the arranged meeting during the first quarter.
• Other local municipalities are silent about taking on the District Council’s offer.
2.5.0.5 Challenges
In attempting to achieve the desired outcomes for each of the abovementioned Key Performance Areas, the following
challenges were identified for each:
Sound Financial Management
• Poor communication of newly acquired assets or assets to be written off/disposed of by the originating Directorates to
the Budget & Treasury Office.
Accounting and Reporting
• Staff shortage in the reporting unit to cope with the strenuous schedule of reporting requirements.
• Reporting template received from Treasury needs to be continuously monitored for changes which must be incorporated
into the accounting system in order to generate the required information in a more effective manner.
Financial sustainability
• The abolition of the RSC Levies continues to make it difficult to improve on the cost coverage ratio achieved for 2006.
The levy replacement portion within the Equitable Share allocation that is supposed to compensate for the loss of RSC
levy income is actually less than the levy income that has been lost.
• The implementation of the billing process to directly bill the rural consumers for Water and Sanitation services previously
done by DWAF has not been effected due to the lack of sufficient information.
Internal Institutional Capacity
• Appointment of staff needs to be speeded up in order to comply with the timeframes laid down during the
budget processes.
External Institutional Capacity
• Roll-out of the accounting system to the local municipalities must be monitored closely to avoid any delays and
implementation setbacks experienced thus far.
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