By Jeff Trotman
Chairman of the Linden IMC, Orrin Gordon, says the entity is operating without a budget and this is causing serious financial stress and anxiety. He made the disclosure on Friday 2 January 2015 during a press briefing to update local journalists on the challenges the Linden Town Council faced in 2014 and some of the plans the local government body has for the town in 2015.
Gordon said the Linden IMC submitted its annual budget for 2015 in mid-November 2014, in accordance with the law but up to Friday 2 January 2015, the IMC had not received a response from the Ministry of Local Government on the budget. He said some revenue earning systems, including an increase of ten or eleven per cent in rates and taxes across the board,
