While the Private Sector Commission (PSC) has agreed that the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) needs to collect revenue, it has lambasted the council for doing so without consultation and in an unlawful manner.
The PSC made its position known yesterday in wake of Tuesday’s barricading of a number of city wharves to force payment of a contentious container fee.
Concerning the approach of the council with regard to making decisions on the administration of the municipality, particularly revenue collection, the PSC in a statement released yesterday said, “… The commission wishes to remind the council that the business sector and residents of the city are its means of revenue and that partnership and consultation [are] infinitely preferable to confrontation and unlawful behaviour in the name of revenue collection.”
