Nkomazi Local Municipality 20 - Co-operative Governance and ...

DEFINITIONS AND KEY TERMSIntegrated development planning _ The Integrated Development Plan (IDP) of the local municipality is a strategic tooldesigned to bring together and to harmonize individual plans of the municipal departments. The plan should guide all futuredevelopment of the municipality by setting priorities, allocating resources and defining time frames and indicators.IDP is a process by which municipalities prepare 5-year strategic plans that are reviewed annually in consultation withcommunities and stakeholders. These plans adopt an implementation approach and seek to promote integration bybalancing social, economic and ecological pillars of sustainability without compromising the institutional capacity requiredin the implementation, and by coordinating actions across sectors and spheres of government.Municipality _ A municipality is defined in the Municipal Systems Act 32 of 2000 as an organ of state within the local sphereof government. It exercises legislative and executive authority within boundaries as determined by the Demarcation Board(Demarcation Act 1998)Sustainable development _ Sustainable development is development that “... meets the needs of the present withoutcompromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (Beckenstein et al, 1996:9.)District municipality _ means a municipality that has municipal executive and legislative authority in an area that includesmore than one municipality, and which is described in section 155(1) of the Constitution as a category C municipality.Financial year _ means the period starting from 1 July in a year to 30 June the next year;Local community _ in relation to a municipality— (a) means that body of persons comprising— (i) the residents of themunicipality; (ii) the ratepayers of the municipality; (iii) any civic organisations and non-governmental, private sector orlabour organisations or bodies which are involved in local affairs within the municipality; and (iv) visitors and other peopleresiding outside the municipality who, because of their presence in the municipality, make use of services or facilitiesprovided by the municipality; and (b) includes, more specifically, the poor and other disadvantaged sections of such body ofpersonsMunicipal council _ or ‘‘council’’ means a municipal council referred to in section 18 of the Municipal Structures Act;‘‘municipal manager’’ means a person appointed in terms of section 82 of the Municipal Structures Act.Councillor _ means a member of a municipal council:MEC for local government _ means the member of the Executive Council of a province responsible for local government inthe province:Basic municipal services _ means a municipal service that is necessary m ensure an acceptable and reason~ble quality oflife and, if not provided, would endanger public health or safety or [he environment;Service authority _ means the power of a municipality to regulate the provision of a municipal service by a serviceprovider;Budget-related policy _ means a policy of a municipality affecting or affected by the annual budget of the municipality,including— (a) the tariffs policy which the municipality must adopt in terms of section 74 of the Municipal Systems Act; (b)the rates policy which the municipality must adopt in terms of legislation regulating municipal property rates; or (c) thecredit control and debt collection policy which the municipality must adopt in terms of section 96 of the Municipal SystemsAct;Mayor _ in relation to— (a) a municipality with an executive mayor, means the councillor elected as the executive mayor ofthe municipality in terms of section 55 of the Municipal Structures Act; or (b) a municipality with an executive committee,means the councillor elected as the mayor of the municipality in terms of section 48 of that Act;Official _ in relation to a municipality or municipal entity, means— (a) an employee of a municipality or municipal entity; (b)a person seconded to a municipality or municipal entity to work as a member of the staff of the municipality or municipalentity; or (c) a person contracted by a municipality or municipal entity to work as a member of the staff of the municipalityor municipal entity otherwise than as an employee;NKLM Integrated Development Plan 2012_2013 12