CITY HALL staff have been asked to be more mindful about the condition of the greenery growing along roads under its jurisdiction and has asked rate-payers to do the same for the vegetation they plant in the common land outside their fences.
THE Public Works Department (PWD) is weighing up the possibility of refurbishing the access roads to several Kunak villages, while City Hall is in the midst of strategising how best to improve a stretch in the Dah Yeh Villa area.
AFTER already having to reckon with metal thieves damaging its streetlights in their search for the copper in some cables, City Hall now has to deal with mentally unstable vagrants vandalising these amenities.
CITY HALL is having “trash-booms” fashioned at three strategic locations across the Darau River in a bid to deal with, if not mitigate, the volume of rubbish which is finding its way into the waterway in this part of Manggatal.
THE District Council is cracking down on a “kongsi (workers’ quarters)” which is being built in one part of Penampang, while City Hall is checking on whether a tent, seen on some reserve land in Dah Yeh Villa, is being used for a similar purpose.
A spokesman for the former agency said the owner of some vacant land, off Jalan Nosoob Hungab, was instructed to stop all construction with immediate effect on Monday.