One:
Rates must remain affordable for ratepayers. Annual increases should be carefully managed to stay below inflation, or at the very least, align with the Consumer Price Index.
Over the past five years, municipal rates in Mossel Bay have increased by 100%—a staggering 80% above inflation. This pattern of excessive escalation is unacceptable and must be actively opposed by ratepayers.
Two:
Be a responsible steward of the public trust and the funds entrusted to the care of the municipality.
Read the letters to treasury about the steardship of ratespayers public trust money
(Letter 1)
(Letter 2)
(Letter 3)
The questions asked in the second and third letter is still unanswered after 6 months from Treasury and the Municipality
Three
Municipal funds must be used responsibly and with clear purpose. Community resources should not be squandered on ventures or partnerships such as SAPS-related systems or power generation initiatives. These are highly specialized domains that lie beyond the core mandate of a municipality. Ratepayers rightly expect their contributions to be directed toward dependable service delivery—not diverted into costly experiments better handled by national authorities or private sector experts.
The Joint Operations Centre (JOC) initiative has proven to be a complete failure, resulting in an enormous cost to the public.
The MPOA official complaint about the 2025/26 Budget Electric power generation not a municipal function.