Municipal Department

The Bandar Seri Begawan Municipal Department, a government agency, is fully funded by the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Dipertuan of Brunei Darussalam. The department functions as an office of the Board - dedicated to co-ordinate and to perform the duties and responsibities (mandate) of the Board; especially, the day-to-day management and administration of the Bandar Seri Begawan Municipality. The routine services rendered by the various functional "units" within the department endeavour to provide premium quality of life for the people; that is to say, maintaining a liveable Bandar Seri Begawan.

Being a service-oriented government agency, the department has been structured in such a way conducive to good governance. With an approved budget of nearly B$25,000,000 (twenty five millions Brunei dollars ) and a total of manpower strength of 1,900 (one thousand and nine hundred) this year (1999), the department is expected to strive to excel and meet the royal standards called forth by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Dipertuan of Brunei Darussalam in his speeches in various occasions. Gearing towards maintaining the royal standards, the challenging tasks are assingned to as many as 14 (fourteen) identified units in 8 major sections. They are highlighted in the following brief.

Administration and Finance

• Dealing with administratiive and personnel matters.
• inancial matters such as payments of salaries, allowances, loans, revenue collections, etc.
• reparing annual budget and monitoring expenditure.
• Handling office equipment, furnitures, stationery, etc.
• anaging Government's Rest House and Security.

Building Regulations and Control

• Acts as the secretariat to the Building Development Control Sub-Committee which is responsible towards adoption and implementation of consistent and acceptable planning and development (building) standards in all government and private projects.
• Regulation and control of Signboards, Billboards, Sky-signs and the like.
• Monitoring and enforcing laws and regulations.

Building Assessment and Tax

• House and building assessment and taxation.
• Enforcing laws and regulations.

Licensing

• Serves as the secretariat to the Licensing Sub-Committee which is responsible towards adoption and implementation of consistent and acceptable public health and safety standards in business premises.
• Processing new business licence applications and renewal of business licences.
• Monitoring and enforcing laws and regulations.

Maintenance

• Maintenance of offices, shops, markets and stalls operated by the department.
• Maintaining and cleaning the public places, government housing, the public roads, drains, public toilets, and government lands within the municipality.
• Monitoring the privatised (contracted out) maintenance works at Pasar Gadong and its compound.

Services

• Provides support services such as transport, garbage trucks and workshops.
• Refuse or garbage collections and disposal.
• onitoring the private garbage collection operations.
• onitoring the privatised (contracted out) operations of the dumping facilities at the Sungai Akar Dumping Ground.

Car Parks

• Operating and managing car parking facilities.
• Monitoring the performance of the tenderer in managing and operating the car parking facilities at the Multi-Storey Car Parks and the Commercial and Trade Centre buildings.
• Monitoring and enforcing laws and regulations.