KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality Director General Ahmad Al-Manfouhi chairs a meeting of the higher committee for planning and coordination.

KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality Director General Ahmad Al-Manfouhi emphasized the importance of administrative reform and completing the development of the municipality's organizational structure, especially since officials have a golden opportunity to change its image after the new law 33/2016. Manfouhi, who chaired the meeting of the higher committee for planning and coordination Thursday, said they will take practical steps to develop the municipality to prepare the executive rules of the new municipality law through a study of all weakness and strength aspects in order to make the role of the municipality a supervisory one by reducing the burden on municipality sectors in processing transactions of government projects, and supporting the private sector.

Construction licenses

Manfouhi said the committee decided to ask the engineering and legal systems departments to prepare rules of allowing engineering consulting offices to provide construction licenses and hand over the boundaries of government projects under the supervision of the municipality.

He said the committee also discussed the issue of e-transactions between the municipality and other government bodies, adding that it recommended seeking the legal opinion of the fatwa and legislation department with regards to the electronic linkage of transactions of real estate specifications between the Ministry of Justice and the Municipality.

Parking evacuated

Meanwhile, a Municipality emergency team evacuated the car parking building of Amiri Hospital as instructed by Manfouhi, because the site is not safe and will remain closed until after through tests. Capital Municipality Director Ammar Al-Ammar said instructions were given by the director general to evacuate the building and it was done in coordination with Deputy Hospital Director Dr Ali Al-Alanda.

By Hanan Al-Saadoun