FEEDBACK FROM THE MEETING WITH PIET VAN ZYL AND CO.
Hi all,
Our very sincere thanks to all who have sent in additions and improvements to the list of generic complaints and/or details of cases to illustrate the different complaints. The GCTCA’s dossier is coming along nicely, so please keep sending in your contributions.
The GCTCA yesterday had a very interesting second meeting with the City’s Executive Director: Strategy & Planning, Piet van Zyl, and the three Directors in the Planning Department. The City representatives initially objected strongly to the memo the GCTCA sent to the MEC in the Provincial Government but could not rebut any of the 16 categories of complaints made. The only defence offered was from one of the Directors who said some of the complaints implied malpractice or corruption by officials and that they were unable to enter into discussion of unsubstantiated allegations.
The outcome of the meeting was that was agreed the GCTCA’s allegations are serious and need serious discussion. As a next step the City will arrange a third meeting, which will be attended by the eight District Managers. For this third meeting, the GCTCA will prepare an updated version of the memo listing the generic complaints we wish to make, but excluding the actual cases in our dossier. And we shall obviously take great care to ensure that each of these complaints is legally defensible and can be substantiated.
Following that third meeting, the City will arrange a series of eight meetings, one in each of the eight Planning Districts, with the District Manager and planning officials of that District present, as well the top management. For each of those meetings, the GCTCA will need to prepare a dossier of the problem cases we wish to discuss with the City. Your association is very cordially invited to continue to submit details of cases to be included in the dossier and consider who from your association should attend the meeting for your District.
In parallel with all of this, the GCTCA has requested an interview with the MEC, the Hon. Anton Bredell.
All of your ideas, information and other inputs into this process will be very greatly appreciated.
Regards, Graham
GCTCA VICE CHAIR AND SECRETARY
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