Tampines Town Council gets full marks in two of four
areas assessed
SINGAPORE: The Tampines Town Council released a snap shot
of its Town Council Management Report on Sunday.
Data collection from all 16 town councils in Singapore
began last month and Tampines is the first to reveal preliminary
results.
About 10 percent of the 625 HDB blocks in Tampines have been
assessed so far.
The Tampines Town Council received mostly "level one" - the highest
level achievable - for half of the four areas assessed.
It faired well for lift performance and arrears management.
There were few lift breakdowns and less than 30 percent of
households owed more than three months' worth of town council
fees.
However, Tampines received the average rating of "three" for estate
maintenance, and a "two" for estate cleanliness.
The indicator for estate maintenance is the average number of
defects, such as broken tiles and spoilt lightbulbs, found per
block.
Speaking at a town hall forum on Sunday, National Development
Minister and adviser to the Tampines Town Council, Mah Bow Tan,
said the estate should strive towards "level one" for all the
areas.
But he added that how well an estate fares does not depend on the
town council alone. For example, residents have a role to play too
when it comes to keeping the estate clean.
He said: "Cleanliness is not only a matter of how many cleaners we
deploy, how fast the cleaners work, how efficient the cleaners
are...the cleaner can be very efficient, but if the residents
continue to litter or some residents are very prone to littering or
non-civic conscience when it comes to littering, then that
particular block or that particular part of the estate will be very
dirty."
The first Town Council Management Report covering all estates will
be released in the second quarter of next year.
There are 16 town councils across Singapore managing some 900,000
flats.
14 are run by the ruling PAP and two by the opposition - the
Workers' Party in Hougang and the Singapore People's Party in
Potong Pasir.
- CNA/ir