CITY OF CAPE TOWN 20 MARCH 2018 STATEMENT BY THE CITY’S EXECUTIVE DEPUTY MAYOR, ALDERMAN IAN NEILSON Let’s keep our water-saving focus, Team Cape Town As at Monday 19 March 2018, our collective consumption over the past week was 565 million litres of water per day. Unfortunately, usage has increased by …
Illegal Dumping in the Spotlight
As in most areas of the Cape Metropole, the problem of illegal dumping also occurs in Glosderry and is one of the main challenges that the GCID has to contend with. Experience has taught that people are prepared to change but only if they are constantly monitored and warned regarding the consequences of dumping. Some incidents stem from …
Strides of progress by GCID
Thanks to the commitment of all who are involved in the Glosderry City Improvement District drive, strides of progress are being made in various ways. Problems like illegal dumping and the confiscation of stolen trolleys and wheelie-bins are successfully addressed by the teams. The Public Safety issues that are addressed during the day-to-day activities, include problems related to the …
Glosderry News – an Update from GCID’s Manager
Recycling IN a recent conversation with GCID manager Lennox Leyile, he was asked how Glosderry handled the issue of recycling. He replied that in Glosderry, businesses did their own recycling and any unwanted item in public spaces got bagged and collected by a truck from CCT. “Any other item not collected by the council truck, we do a C3 Notification on, or it gets taken to the Council drop-off facility (i.e. the dumping site) …
Geocentric Launches New App
“As Geocentric we are very proud to launch our new mobile phone reporting application,” said Gene Lohrentz of the urban management company recently. “This is another way in which we are enabling our CID business and property owners to interact with their City Improvement District Management. “We want our CID contributors to become part of our family by interacting …
Urban Management Trolley Introduced
The Geocentric Urban Management Trolley Project was initiated in 2017. The aim of the project is to provide urban cleaning and maintenance teams with a platform to improve their daily tasks, assist with moving of equipment and tools and enable recycling while performing their tasks. A few design considerations were introduced into the design of …
Cape Town Mayor outlines status quo of water crisis
During a recent speech delivered at the Atlantis Aquifer, Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille thanked Capetonians who had been making efforts to cut their water usage, saying that about half of water users had restricted their daily usage to 87 litres per day. But added that this was not enough. “We need each and …
Noticeable transformation of Glosderry area
The following report was delivered by Mr Roy Kemmis-Betty, chairperson of Glosderry City Improvement District Board at the annual general meeting on 1 November 2017: The Glosderry CID is now nearing the end of its initial period of 5 years marked by a noticeable transformation of the Glosderry area in terms of security, cleanliness and …
CID activities reviewed and renewed at AGM
At Glosderry City Improvement District’s Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 1 November 2017 not only the past year’s activities were reviewed, but an extension of the CID term and planning for the next five years was also considered. In view of a Special Ratings Area levy of 8 percent on property tax, members were especially …
Overall city water use still exceeding restriction target
The City of Cape Town is calling on residents to intensify their efforts to save water. Overall usage of drinking water is currently approximately 10% higher than the required savings target to prevent drawing dams down to dangerous levels by the end of summer. The City of Cape Town advises residents that overall water …
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