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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "technical and market forces cost beyond this limit defeats the purpose of justification of conditional grant. Madam Temporary Speaker, in view of the above mentioned observations, the Committee recommends that, county governments should consider prioritizing the matters that are of service delivery in nature. In addition, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) directive, Gazette notice N0.6518 and circular number of 24th October, 2016 to county governments, giving 30th June, 2019 as deadline for the option of either paying rent for residences of the designated county government State officers, or should be rescinded so that we know the time. The time limit should be realistic within the budget provisions so that people do not hold too much money in one year. The county governments should customize the prototype designs. We had a lot of discussions with the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development. In fact, they showed us a lot of prototype designs for the county headquarters, county speaker’s residence, County Governor’s residence and the county assemblies. The counties have different types of assemblies. Some had less than 30 Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) and others had up to 90 MCAs. So, there are different types of assembly chambers. The designs were shared with the county governments, especially those who have conditional grants. They should customize the prototype designs attached in this report for respective projects. The county government should ensure the estimated cost of construction of executive offices for the county headquarters do not exceed Kshs500 million. The county government should ensure that the estimated cost of designated county State officers’ residences do not exceed the limits as follows:- The advice we got from Ministry of Public Works was that, the county Governor’s residence should not be more than Kshs45 million. It is a building similar to what used to be the former Provincial Commissioners’ residences in the former provinces, which sit on a 2 acre land. County Deputy Governors’ residences should be a maximum of Kshs35 million. County assembly speakers’ residences should not exceed Kshs35 million. Further, the size of land should not exceed 2 acres and not below quarter acre. The county government should ensure that the cost of construction of the county assemblies’ chambers, is within the limits provided for in this Report. You might wonder that it is a bit late because counties have started building. I think this came to our attention very late. For those who have started, our recommendation is that appraisal of the project must be done, so that they can agree with the contractors to vary the scope of the works that is allowed within the building laws that you can vary the cost of project down by 25 per cent. If that is done, then we can have some sanity in the whole thing. Madam Temporary Speaker, counties that are getting grants from the National Government, where they are supposed to get Kshs363 million from the conditional grants and they are supposed to contribute the rest, surprisingly, the same counties are trying to award tenders at Kshs800 million for their headquarters. There is a lot of concern that monies are just being wasted in building big infrastructures, which have got nothing to do with the service delivery. As I conclude, I want to appreciate members of Standing Committee on Finance and Budget, who have exhibited commitment to their duty and sacrificed their time."
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