Tivaouane, January 1 (APS) – The mayor of Tivaouane, Demba Diop Sy plans to create, from 2025, a municipal bank and crèche, and strengthen the health map and change the names of elementary schools to pay tribute to notable figures of the municipality.
Mr. Diop spoke during a press briefing on the progress of the municipal council which he has led since January 2022 and whose payroll has increased from 7 to 56 million FCFA.
The municipal bank should help to densify the local economy in order to better promote business in the town, he indicated, adding that the crèche will allow working women in the town to work without difficulty by dropping off their children there.
The mayor also announced the municipal council’s decision to name the town’s primary schools in the names of the “most deserving citizens”.
“We will no longer hear the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 attached to schools. We will choose the most deserving among the citizens of this commune to give their names to these elementary schools,” promised Demba Diop Sy, noting that schools with numbered names will “soon be a forgotten story.”
The programs of the municipality of Tivaouane in 2025 also plan to bring order to the markets, “where some owners do not pay municipal taxes. This constitutes a shortfall for the municipality which must meet its fixed charges and other expenses.”
The Tivaouane town hall had been ransacked by Jakarta motorcycle drivers who were not happy with the municipality’s decision to make them pay taxes before the Gamou.
-The mayor announced the registration of Jakarta motorcycles, the wearing of the recognition vest and the monthly payment of 3,000 F to the Treasury starting this year.
“The Tivaouane tax services center will take care of all the people who have until now been recalcitrant to the idea of properly fulfilling their duties,” he added.
Referring to cooperation with foreign cities, he expressed the desire of the municipality of Fez in Morocco to make land available to the municipality of Tivaouane for the construction of a guest house in this Moroccan city housing the mausoleum. of the founder of the Tidianes brotherhood visited by thousands of Senegalese throughout the year.
The municipal council of Tivaouane is also in contact with the commune of Limoges, in France, through one of the deputy mayors, Ibrahima Dia, a national of Tivaouane.
This prospective cooperation should help Tivaouane benefit from the specificities of the capital of the French department of Haute-Vienne, said Mr. Diop.
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