Mandate
The Omuthiya Town Council is governed by its Municipal Council in terms of the Local Authority Act, Act 23 of 1992. Council members are elected by the residents of Omuthiya for a period of five years on the basis of a proposed political party list. The Town Council’s mandate is to develop the town and to uplift and maintain the community’s living standards by providing the best municipal services that can be offered and also to continually strive to promote the town by attracting all potential investors henceforth to empower the economy of the town of Omuthiya.
Furthermore, Omuthiya Town Council (OTC) is a statutory body with a constitutional mandate to govern the affairs of its area of jurisdiction. The Council, like other Local Authorities in Namibia, is mandated to direct the development of its town, provide quality services to its people among others on a continuous basis. In pursuit of this ideal, Omuthiya Town Council is committed to providing prompt and affordable services to all residents, investors and visitors alike through effective and efficient use of resources.
The above mandate is aligned with the line ministry – the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (MURD) to:
- Coordinate and manage decentralization in Namibia; This entails transferring power from central government to regional and local government in a unitary state, providing advisory services, technical support and capacity building; and
- Ensure appropriate town planning and establishment, infrastructural development and land use management.
Furthermore, the ministry aims:
- To improve public service delivery by sub-national governments
- To ensure there are sufficient land available for housing and infrastructure development
- To ensure access to acceptable shelter by the low income population and the destitute
Given the information portrayed in this section, the Omuthiya Town Council’s Strategic Plan is prudent to the success of the future and the sustainability of the town.
A vision and mission lies at the heart of, and drives, the choices an organisation makes when designing and implementing its operating model. As the Omuthiya Town Council did not have a vision, mission and value statements, the following statements were endorsed.
The Values: Core values determine the way things get done in your organization. Values are timeless guiding principles, deeply held beliefs within the institution and demonstrated through the day-to-day behaviors of all staff members. The institution’s values publicly proclaim how it expects everyone to behave. The core values of the Omuthiya Town Council are:
- Professionalism (in all we do)
- Accountability (accepting full responsibility for all our actions and its
consequences)
- Teamwork (work together with all stakeholders)
- Transparency (openness in all our dealings)
- Urgency (timeous service delivery)
- Willingness to engage (each other and our community)
- Honesty (working with integrity)
