"To become the model Council in Malta, through the continuous development of Local Governance concepts, to develop our educational, cultural and infrastructural sectors to meet the best needs
of the residential and business sections of our community, to emphasise
on the operational excellence and innovative administration of our
financial resources which are to be utilized after evaluation of
the efficiency, the effectiveness and the economy in
all services we provide and to enhance the environmental sector in all its aspect."
Aims and Objectives
These aims and objectives can be obtained by the Ghaxaq Local Council by lobbying Govermental Ministeries and Dipartments to accomplish their duties towards our residents by upgrading the infrastructure in our village.
The council must also organises courses in different fields for our villagers so that they can enhance in their education.
Functions of the Local Councils in Malta.
All functions and responsabilities of the Local Councils in Malta are listed in Act XV of 1993 and other imendments issued therafter.Here are Chapter 33 and Chapter 34 of the Act where these functions are listed.
Functions of Local
councils.
Chapter 33.
(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section and to the
provisions of any other law for the time being in force, the
functions of each Local Council shall be:
(a) to provide for the upkeep and maintenance of, or
improvements in, any street or footpath, not being
privately owned;
(b) to provide for the collection and removal of all refuse
from any public or private place, for the maintenance
of cleanliness and for the establishment, upkeep and
maintenance of all public conveniences, dustbins and
other receptacles for the temporary deposit and
collection of waste, and to ensure that these are
accessible to all persons, including persons using a
wheel-chair;
(c) to provide for the establishment, upkeep and
maintenance of children's playgrounds, public gardens
and sport, cultural or other leisure centres, and to
ensure that these are, as far as possible, accessible to
all persons, including persons using a wheel-chair;
(d) to provide and maintain proper road signs and road
markings, in conformity with national and
international standards, to establish and maintain
pedestrian and parking areas and to provide for the
protection of school children in the vicinity of schools;
(e) to propose to and, where applicable, be consulted by
any competent authority prior to the competent
authority making any changes in traffic schemes
directly affecting the locality;
(f) to make recommendations to any competent authority
for or in relation to any planning or building scheme
and to be a full participant in any decisions on the
naming or renaming of streets;
(g) within the parameters of any national plan, to issue
guidelines to be followed in the upkeep, restoration,
design or alteration of the facade of any building or of
any building or any part of a building normally visible
from a street, including the type of lighting and
materials used, advertisements and shop fronts, and in
the case of premises which are open to the public, to
ensure that such premises are, as far as possible,
accessible to all persons, including persons who use a
wheel-chair;
(h) to assist citizens by providing, where applicable in
conjunction with any competent authority, information
relating to the rights of citizens in general, including
information on consumers rights, transport,
communications, tourist facilities, taxation, social
security, public health and other matters of public
utility and interest;
(i) to advise any authority empowered to take any
decisions directly or indirectly affecting the Council
and the residents it is responsible for;
(j) as part of a national scheme, to provide in conjunction
with any competent authority, for the establishment,
upkeep and maintenance of creches, kindergartens and
other educational services or buildings;
(k) as part of a national scheme, to provide in conjunction
with any competent authority for the establishment,
upkeep and maintenance of health and rehabilitation
centres, government dispensaries, health district
offices and homes for senior citizens;
(l) to propose to the Minister responsible for education,
persons to be appointed as presidents of primary
school councils;
(m) to enter into agreements with any public body or
government department for the delegation to the
Council of any of the functions of that public body or
department:
Provided that any such delegation shall only
come into effect after the Minister has made the
relevant order in the Gazette;
(n) to perform any other function which shall be delegated
to it by the Government through the Minister by means
of an order published in the Government Gazette;
(o) to provide for all such other works, things, matters and
services which are not excluded from a Council's
competence by any law for the time being in force nor
assigned to any other authority.
......(2) Arterial and distributor roads determined by the Structure
Plan, national monuments, national parks or gardens, industrial
estates,ports,airports and other national territories ,buildings,
establishments and items listed in the Fourth Schedule to
this Act are the responsibility of the Government and are totally
excluded from the competence of Local Councils.
Council to make
Bye-laws.
Amended by:
XII.1995.16.
Chapter 34.
(1) A Council may make, amend or revoke bye-laws for
the purpose of carrying out its functions and for the prevention and
suppression of nuisances in its locality.
