Mayor meets ratepayers to smoothen progress

Kandy Mayor L.B. Aluvihare, at a discussion with the Kandy Rate Payers’ Association, said that representatives of the Association would be appointed to three standing committees of the Council.

A delegation of rate payers met the Mayor to discuss the needs of the city and the environmental pollution.

Association Secretary Goonetilleke Munasinghe told The Kandy Times that the meeting with the Mayor was cordial and that he pointed out one ratepayer out of the many in default of taxes, who owed the Council Rs. 14 lakhs as water charges.

Mr. Munasinghe said that the Mayor had given a patient hearing to most of the matters discussed and that solutions would be forthcoming in the near future. He also said that the ratepayers were free to discuss matters that were of crucial importance to the ratepayers and that the representative group, had made it much easier to discuss these matters.

The Association also pointed out that there was no coordination of the work undertaken by the Municipal Council. To this the Mayor had said that he should be informed and that immediate action would be taken on such complaints.

Mayor Aluvihare had also promised to meet the Association representatives once in two months to monitor the Council’s work.

Among those present at the discussion were Dr. G. Nelson, former MMC Anthony Sandanam, L. Karaliyadde and R.M. Ratnayake.