FINANCE DEPARTMENT

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

Finance department is a unit of council having responsibility of effecting all financial transactions and accounts of council.

 Roles

  • Revenue collection – local revenue
  • Effecting payments to benefinaries –staff, councillors or third parties in relation to estimated expenditure.
  • Budgeting –preparation of budgets for council and proper implementation of lawful polies and direction of council.
  • To provide safe custody of all receipts tickets licences and other accountable stationary.
  • Maintenance of approved accounting systems throughout the council.
  • To guide lead in the preparation of monthly, quarterly financial reports and end of year financial statement and returns.

 

The department has three staff and these include

  1. The senior Treasurer
  2. The senior assistant Accountant
  3. The assistant Accountant

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Maintenance of all the 10 roads a total of 9.8km during 2018/2019 FY
  • Construction of office block using funds from UDEG
  • Improvement in local revenue collection from 40.6 to 92.5m
  • Prompt collection of garbage
  • Construction of tarmac road under URF –Kigobero road, 200m stretch

 CHALLENGES

  • Lack of bye laws on garbage management
  • Many animals especially cows loiter in the town freely
  • There are two garbage collection tractors but only one is functional which is over loaded which with too much garbage
  • Many garbage skips used in the collection of garbage have rusted .therefore this causes less garbage collected.
  • Mayuge town council lacks a hall where council convene council meeting.
  • Lack of desktop computer to ease office work.

 

 

 

 

 

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

Finance department is a unit of council having responsibility of effecting all financial transactions and accounts of council.

 Roles

  • Revenue collection – local revenue
  • Effecting payments to benefinaries –staff, councillors or third parties in relation to estimated expenditure.
  • Budgeting –preparation of budgets for council and proper implementation of lawful polies and direction of council.
  • To provide safe custody of all receipts tickets licences and other accountable stationary.
  • Maintenance of approved accounting systems throughout the council.
  • To guide lead in the preparation of monthly, quarterly financial reports and end of year financial statement and returns.

 

The department has three staff and these include

  1. The senior Treasurer
  2. The senior assistant Accountant
  3. The assistant Accountant

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Maintenance of all the 10 roads a total of 9.8km during 2018/2019 FY
  • Construction of office block using funds from UDEG
  • Improvement in local revenue collection from 40.6 to 92.5m
  • Prompt collection of garbage
  • Construction of tarmac road under URF –Kigobero road, 200m stretch

 CHALLENGES

  • Lack of bye laws on garbage management
  • Many animals especially cows loiter in the town freely
  • There are two garbage collection tractors but only one is functional which is over loaded which with too much garbage
  • Many garbage skips used in the collection of garbage have rusted .therefore this causes less garbage collected.
  • Mayuge town council lacks a hall where council convene council meeting.
  • Lack of desktop computer to ease office work.