A $75m administrative building will be constructed in 2019 to house staff currently occupying the dilapidated City Hall building, according to Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan, who has also disclosed that phased restoration works will subsequently be done on the historic structure.
This sum is part of the $6.2B budgeted under the ministry’s Sustainable Communities Develop-ment Programme, which was approved by the Committee of Supply on Wednesday. The $2.1B allocated for the Sustainable Communities Management Programme, was also approved during Wednesday’s consideration of the 2019 budget estimates for the Ministry of Communities.
It was while being questioned by Opposition Member of Parliament, Colin Croal, about the $300M allocated for the Georgetown Restoration Programme, that Bulkan disclosed that funds were included in that sum for the construction of the building.
