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Acting Municipal Manager
Message
Mr T. W. Moeti |
Acting Municipal
Manager, Mr. T.W. Moeti urges municipal employees to move
from policy to result based implementation at the workshop
of Batho-Pele in Duncanville on the 21st - 23rd July 2008.
In a written statement to the delegates, and other employees
of the municipality, Mr. Moeti said: "This workshop
is in response to the 2008 Public Service Week, which
was celebrated across the country, marking the improved
service delivery in the public service arena. The workshop
provides a platform for municipal employees to demonstrate
their dedication and commitment to continuously seeking
ways and means to foster an optimal working environment
- an environment conducive to higher levels of functioning,
professionalism and productivity, enabling municipal employees
to make sound administrative decisions and overcome service
delivery backlogs."
Acting Municipal Manager, Mr. Moeti believes that “in
order to ensure continuous alignment between policy development
and implementation and to make a positive impact on the
lives of our citizens, managers should continually be
exposed to the challenges that citizens and frontline
public servants face at the coalface of service delivery".
Without this exposure, policies risk being formulated
in a conceptual vacuum, ignoring the realities of limited
capacity or weak processes at operational level. This
invaluable first-hand experience will result in better
policy formulation which is sensitive to implementation
challenges.
"I urge all participants in the
workshop to ensure that skills learned carried through,
cascade them down to other employees, and practice and
live Batho-Pele principles and to make it their personal
mission to support service delivery. Our duties do not
end when we walk out the door", said Mr. Moeti.
Acting Municipal Manager Mr. Moeti urges public servants
to "unite and forge a Public Service that strives
towards the expression and attainment of the vision of
putting people first through the belief set "We Belong,
We Care, We Serve". Let us embrace this belief set
as our core value system that distinguishes us from other
professions. Let us work together to build pride in belonging
to the public service therein ensuring that Emfuleni becomes
a "real employer of choice". Let us build the
spirit, culture and practice of collaboration, teamwork
and collegiality among public servants".
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