Election of Chairperson; Quarterly Reports

Meeting report

Election of Chairperson
The Committee procedural officer asked Members to nominate a Chairperson for the Committee.

Mr G Bosman (DA) nominated Ms L Botha (DA) as Chairperson for the Committee.

Ms M Maseko (DA) seconded the nomination.

The Chairperson thanked Members for showing confidence in her for the new role.

Committee minutes and reports
The Chairperson asked Members to consider and adopt outstanding Committee minutes and reports.

The Committee considered and adopted two sets of minutes, 16 November 2021 and 7 December 2021.

The Committee considered and adopted two quarterly reports (July 2021 – September 2021 and October 2021 – December 2021).

Committee Programme
The Chairperson suggested Members go through the draft Committee programme, and proposed that going forward, all Committee meetings would be held in the Chamber.

Members agreed.

Mr C Dugmore (ANC) suggested three matters to be discussed in the next Committee meeting:

-The submitted dossier regarding MEC Bredell should be discussed by the Committee
-Suggested the national department of local government and City of Cape Town should attend the meeting because written questions to the MEC in the Chamber are refused
-To call the SIU to report to the Committee about investigations regarding the City of Cape Town housing department

Mr Bosman suggested the Bredell dossier should be referred to the Disciplinary Committee and Cabinet.

Ms Maseko stated it would be difficult to respond to Mr Dugmore’s concerns because they were already submitted to the programme that is with the procedural officer. This was why the Chairperson asked Members to familiarise themselves with the draft committee programme.

Mr Dugmore asked his concerns to be recorded in the minutes today so that they could be discussed in the next Committee meeting. He felt Ms Maseko’s proposal was a delaying tactic contravening the code of conduct.

Ms Maseko stated she was reiterating what the Chairperson said and the Chairperson would check if the Mr Dugmore’s concerns were included in the Committee programme, to be discussed in the next meeting.

The Chairperson said she would have a meeting with both procedural officers in order to bring herself up to speed with what has been happening in the Committee and discuss the Committee programme. The next meeting would address items that are on the draft programme.

The meeting was adjourned.