People can participate in Local Council Meeting says YB CHOW

Problems with the application procedure can not be upgraded to the George Town city temporarily

 At 12:29 on December 13, 2011

(Penang 12 hearing) of the original look to Georgetown next year the city will be upgraded to the target, due to problems with the application procedure, including filling the majority of Penang Island Regional Council is not included in the territory, etc., but temporarily can not be achieved.

Penang Local Government Committee Caoguan You today after attending the Local Government Forum, so that the reporter. He said the Penang State Government last year has been the Department of Housing and Local Government, the application was upgraded to the city of Georgetown, but because of problems encountered in the application process next year, the city should not be upgraded to achieve the goal.

He said that George Town plan map change due to filling many of the current Council has instructed the Penang Island Land Survey Bureau, according to the plan increased filling of the land, the latest to draw the map of Penang Island.

He also mentioned that many programs fill the area, now is not the Gazette, the Council must publish in the Gazette, the land can be included in PUC jurisdiction.

In addition, the Penang Island Municipal Council still needs to hire more professionals to meet the specifications of City Hall, local governments have employed with the Public Service officials to discuss issues, and has been passed.

New territory for Penang Island, Penang deputy state secretary Wennai Kun says that the measurement has completed the measurement, and draw in new territory this year, but now need to measure the Penang Island Municipal Council and the Council held a meeting to finalize the new territory of Penang Island . The PUC and the Survey will be meeting this afternoon to discuss the matter.

Monday morning, the local government in the City Hotel Penang at the last 2011 years of local government forum. The forum will focus on Penang island fill plan, and cause the non-governmental organizations plan for the evils of filling, warm the floor. They also raised various issues, such as landfill sites become a permanent lease plan questions the region's transportation planning crowded imperfections lead to traffic congestion and so on.

Part of plans for filling classified as freehold lots, Caoguan You said that this is a political decision. This may be based on the prevailing economic downturn, the government do to stimulate the flow from time to time under the decision.

The second phase of the project for the Channel Coast Conference Caoguan You: people can apply to attend

In addition, for the Channel coast (Straits Quay) Phase II, non-governmental organizations in the forums, so that people participate in a regular City Council meeting and the regular group meetings for comments.

In this regard, Caoguan You said that according to local government regulations, interested people attended the City Council, sent a letter to the Council can apply to enter the trial, but not limited to the city council to attend to ask questions. As for group meetings, the public can not participate.

Even so, he said, local governments have a very open, infrastructure and transport group meetings, transportation planning has invited non-governmental organizations, attended the meeting and provide their expertise in transportation planning.

申请程序出现问题　乔治市暂无法升格为市

 二零一一年十二月十三日 凌晨十二时二十九分

（槟城12日讯）原放眼乔治市明年将升格为市的目标，因申请程序出现问题，包括槟岛多数填土区域未纳入市政局版图等，而暂无法实现。

槟州地方政府委员会主席曹观友今日出席地方政府论坛后，向记者这么指出。他表示，槟州政府在去年已向房屋及地方政府部，申请乔治市升格为市，然而由于申请过程中遇到问题，明年应该无法实现升格为市的目标。

他说，乔治市版图因填土计划而改变许多，目前槟岛市局已指示土地测量局，根据填土计划后所增加的土地，画出槟岛最新的版图。

同时，他提及，许多填土计划的区域，目前乃未宪报，因此市政局必须在宪报上公布，将有关土地纳入市局管辖范围。

另外，槟岛市政局仍需要聘请更多专业人士，以符合市政厅的规格，地方政府已与公共服务局商讨聘请官员事项，并已获得通过。

针对槟岛最新版图，槟州副州秘书温乃坤指出，测量局已完成有关测量，并在今年已画出最新版图，惟目前需要槟岛市政局与测量局召开会议，最后敲定槟岛新的版图。而市局及测量局将会在今午召开会议，以商讨有关事项。

周一上午，槟州地方政府于龙城酒店举行2011年度最后一次的地方政府论坛。此次论坛将焦点放在槟岛的填土计划，并引起各非政府组织代表针对填土计划所带来的弊端，热烈发言。同时，他们也提出各项问题，如填土计划地段成为永久地契的疑问，人口拥挤地区的交通规划不完善导致塞车问题等等。

针对一部分填土计划地段归类为永久地契，曹观友表示，这是政治决定。这可能基于当时经济不景气，政府为刺激时常流动而做下的决定。

针对海峡岸第二期计划会议　曹观友：民众可申请旁听

另外，针对海峡岸(Straits Quay)第二期计划，非政府组织在论坛上提出让民众参与市议会的例常会议及各小组会议，以供意见。

对此，曹观友表示，根据地方政府条令，有兴趣出席市议会的民众，可以致函向市局申请进入旁听，但仅止于旁听不能在市议会上提问。至于小组会议，民众则不能参与。

虽然如此，他说，地方政府已非常开通，基本设施及交通小组会议，都有邀请交通规划的非政府组织代表，参与会议，并提供他们对交通规划的专业知识。