I disagree that DBKL requires the existing manpower to do so.
Statistics have proven and shown other more renowned world class cities are operating at much less staff.
Based on your replies here, are you stating that decrease of manpower IS NOT AN OPTION to DBKL at all?

I requested for historical revenue stemming from development charges, not "projected decrease in the future".
This is to substantiate your claims of a decrease in the first place.
While land may decrease, but value increases. Development charge is based on land value, no? Hence revenue WOULD increase if same or even less amount of projects commence year to year.

The decrease or increase in manpower is ultimately up to DBKL. If you believe they should decrease their manpower and lay off staff, please send them the suggestion using the contact information provided above.

As for your historical revenue request, here are all the Mayor's budget speeches from 2002 - 2014:

http://www.dbkl.gov.my/index.php?option=co...id=1231&lang=ms

The projected decrease in revenue from development charges for the coming years is based on upcoming projects in KL. The decrease in number of development projects will not be sustained by other factors, hence a decrease.

Not transparent at all. Nor convincing enuf.

Since you refuse to extract it, i have taken the liberty to extract it for your perusal to refute your earlier claims:

(in RM'mil)
2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014
assessment 755.08; 783.68; 810.53; 880.5; 1,130
kawalan binaan & perancangan 116; n/a; 239.7; 270; 272.5
*figure not available for development charge in year 2011?

the stats clearly shows an uptrend for revenue from development charge.
while assessment may have witness an increse in close to 50% within 2010 to 2014, but development charge has witness an outstanding 235% growth in the same period!

i rest my case!

while you claim to explain the rationale of the need to increase cost, it's cleverly and overly convenient you chose to ignore cost cutting measures. to me, it is a biased opinion to begin with.

This post has been edited by kochin: Jan 7 2014, 11:43 AM

Seems more like 137% increase, not 235%.

I understand your concerns. However, the development fees will not simply continue to rise based on any increase experienced in the past few years. Since years ago, KL saw rapid development by private developers, etc.

However, this source is running out in the next five to 10 years. You can see the declining trend as we go from 2014 to 2018 with the projected income for the city.

Even if there is an increase, as you can see, the development fees can hardly cover even half of the budget or even development expenditure on any given year.

Costs will also increase over time. The costs to maintain KL city will go up as manpower and material costs go up.

Furthermore, as a modern city, KL would have to cater to new needs in the coming years.

kochin,

you are right track with current issues related to dbkl. does MyKLTalks really represent DBKL to address concerns by rakyat?

if that is so, since dbkl is consider overstaff. why don't their representative comes here to have a say to justify the hike. provide his/her authority card, contact and email. whererea on other hand, they dbkl have to engage 3rd party aka cybertrooper to talk things on their behalf. most of all parrot what beeing told. while many queries from readers are left unanswered. the best answer is please go to dbkl website and do what's being told there.

point noted was year end 31 Jan 2013 was dark day in history for dbkl. where the mayor of dbkl gets the loudest Boo from rakyat. i presume this is reason MyKLTalks are here to exist. basically just to test water. NOT to address concerns and real time issue.

in reality dbkl officers must to go to the field. face to face with rakyat. give the timeline and get things done.

we all have far more important things to do in life. lets not waste time entertaining cybertrooper. we all know time is money. there are more to be done for the day itself.

i fully agree with you hence it is important to spread awareness to gen y who prefer to read postings in lyn.
if yours and my message gets across into their thick skulls, it would be another battle won!

what to expect with mentality of "if only 30% residents object to increase in assessment rates, means they agree!".


peace bro. i shall stop my rants in this thread.

no worries the gen y for themselves never trust one sided info like govt controlled website and media. they judge base on both side of the stories. what is actually happening that affect their lives.

The reason of Gov need that huge number of staff is because most of the department under Govt is redundant. The easy ways to cover up the inability to handle daily routine job is with the reason not enough man power and we need setup a special committee or gruop of expert for it. Everytime new department been setup we need recruiting a group of new staff, but the existing department just goyang lol. That y number of gov servants is increasing in yearly. I.e traffic police with DBKL traffic warrant, spad with JPJ, epu with pemuda more n more.......

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014...jalan-mahameru/

mr. Kl, Wat do u think the cause for tis???

if not corruption Wat else ll b ur excuse???

So what is your background to be qualifies to answer any questions? How many of you in the team? Please state your name down, age, qualification and previous working experience.
And are you a company? What is the name of your company? Who is paying you? Please list down the names of all your directors and affiliation. Are you or any of your directors family members of any current management staff of DBKL? How are you paid? By number of posts/replies? By duration of contract?

If you are transparent, then above questions answered will greatly help your credibility. Forumers here don't appreciate bullshits.

Who is going for tomorrow Hearing?

Anyone else has any questions related to the Annual Value Revision as well as the Assessment Rate?

UPDATES: DBKL is currently conducting the public hearing on objections to the proposed New Annual Value.

A total of 153,000 objection letters were received and DBKL will process every single case.

i have submitted 3 surat batahan for my 3 properties in KL but till only 1 surat reply i had recieved from DBKL regarding my bantahan. So who should i refer for the remaining surat bantahan which i had submitted?

All notices to attend the public hearing should have been received by or before Jan 6 2014.

If you or anyone has not received a notice to attend the public hearing after submitting your objection before or on the deadline last year, please contact the DBKl JPPH:

Tingkat 4, Bangunan TH Perdana, Jalan Sultan Ismail, 50250 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-2617 1038
Email: jpph@dbkl.gov.my

thanks for the reply. But my property is definitely within 36 mile radius criteria, so will DBKL still reduce the rate to 8 % ? ya, i have submitted the appeal letter pending the hearing date to be fixed...

Again it is kind of ridiculous hearing exercise again. received one on 6/1/14 asked to attend on 8/1 12 noon.have meeting at 11am on 8/1/14 .How to go we are all working peoplelah so no go eventually ... IF DBKL is sincere should give sufficient notice and conduct it at week ends..my other two appeal letters all sent on time but until now not received anything from DBKL on the hearing date yet...so should i blame post slow or what said you DBKL..im sure there are many people here facing same problem like me...

Thank you for your feedback. We have compiled similar inputs and presenting them to DBKL.

We just received similar notices today 9/1/14 afternoon, to attend hearing yesterday 8/1/14 at ***9 am!!!!

In short, just want us to miss the hearing, shut up and toe the line lah! Say so la, dbkl....!!!

Note: ***All at the same time? I wanna know, how many of you guys also receive hearing to be on 8/1/14 9am? Mass hearing, huh? How huh r these hearings conducted?