What to expect from the 2021/’22 municipal draft budget

The municipality’s preliminary draft budget for 2021/’22 , the adjustment budget for 2020/’21 and a high level feedback on the IDP delivery for the past three financial years (2017/’18 – 2019/’20) were presented at a well-attended Overstrand Municipal Advisory Forum (OMAF) meeting on Wednesday evening, 10 March.

The 4th and final review (2021/’22) of the current 5-year Integrated Development Plan (IDP) is currently in process. The draft IDP review, as well as the draft budget for the financial year of 2021/’22 will be open for public comment during April 2021. The documents will be available after they have served before Council at the end of March.

Overstrand Executive Mayor, Dudley Coetzee, presented the draft budget for 2021/’22 and referred to the catastrophic effect Covid-19 and the lockdown has had on everybody. “The national lockdown introduced in March 2020 had a severe and immediate impact on the economy – and all operations in the private and public sector, including the finances of municipalities, have been affected by it,” he said, adding that “conditions are expected to remain volatile for the foreseeable future”.

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