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
- The senior Treasurer
- The senior assistant Accountant
- 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
- The senior Treasurer
- The senior assistant Accountant
- 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.