The organisational environment,
within which the Bandar Seri Begawan Municipal Department operates, has
becoming so dynamic and complex. Rapid technological change,
developmental challenges, and the ever increasing public expectation are
included in department's priority agenda. Failing to come up with
pragmatic strategies in dealing with these challenges, the department
will become irrelevant in the next millennium.
Recognising the
dynamism within its environment and the needs to preserve its relevancy,
the department has adopted some proactive strategies that are consistent
with its manisfesto in its broad mission statement mentioned earlier.
The following efforts that being done and will be taken in the future
serve as the manifestation of this belief:
Venturing partnership based on "corporatism" concept with main
business institutions and figures to develop vacant government lands in
Bandar Seri Begawan. The projects secured under this arrangement are the
Islamic Bank of Brunei Takaful Tower and Multi-Storey Car Park buildings and the
new Persatuan
Guru-Guru Melayu Brunei (PGGMB) building.
Letting out of land spaces and building lots for business ventures
of mutual benefits (to the tenderer and the department) under the
concepts of Build, Own and Operate (BOO); Build,
Operate and Transfer (BOT); Lease; and others. The
Prismavision Billboard Advertisement Panels are built before August 1998
under BOO arrangement; whilst the management and operation of car
parking facilities in the Multi-Storey Car Parks and the Commercial and
Trade Centre buildings by the Metro Parking (B) Sdn Bhd since the 1st
June 1998 is under the lease arrangement.
Gradually phasing out
operational functions by privatising (in the form of contracting out)
services. So far, the department has contracted out the operation of
Sungai Akar Dumping Ground, the maintenance of landscaped areas at Car
Parks in front of the Istana Nurul Iman and Hijau Baiduri, and the
maintenance and cleaning of the Pasar Gadong building and its compound.
Increasing efforts to collect unpaid rents, building taxes, parking
charges and the like.
The Ginger Garden at Tasik Lama Recreation Park.
The Open
Markets.
Reviewing and updating the provisions in the Acts, Rules, and
Regulations that no longer meet or relevant to the present needs and
requirement. The department had adopted and implemented the followings:
"The Comprehensive Licensing Approval Procedure", whereby the
department is committed to issue the approval a new licence within 30
(thirty) working days and the approval for licence renewal within 7
(seven) working days effevtive the 1st May 1997.
The Client Charter for
"Application to put up Signboard and Banner", whereby the department is
committed to issue the approval within 7 (seven) working days effective
the 16th February 1998.
The Client Charter for "Application For Permission to Develop and
Use of Land and/ or for the Erection of Buildings or Carrying out
Renovation Works or Ammending the Approved Plans" (Stage II), whereby
the department is committed to issue the approval within 14 (fourteen)
working days effective the 1st April 1998;
"The Comprehensive Procedure for Applications for Endorsements on
Plans (drawings) from the Members of the Building Development Control
Sub-Committee" (known as Stage I of "Application For Permission to
Develop and Use of Land and/ or for the Erection of Buildings or
Carrying out Renovation Works or Ammending the Approved Plans" )
introduced on the 1st April 1998.
Enlarging the area of the Bandar Seri Begawan Municipality.
The Central Fish Market.
Building up the Bumiputera
Gallery.
The Master Plan for "the Bandar Seri Begawan Central Area
Improvement Plan"
