… as M&CC seeks to uncover outstanding revenueNearly two dozen defaulting ratepayers are before the courts as part of an intensified campaign that has been engaged by the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) in order to secure much needed revenue.The move represents an earnest effort by the municipality to secure funds to honour its various financial obligations, primary among them the payment of workers’ wages and salary for this month.Revenue is also needed for the payment of monies owed to waste disposal contractors for services already rendered. It is expected that workers will be paid by next Friday (June 4), municipal Public Relations Officer, Royston King, disclosed yesterday.The municipality, on Monday, stated its inability to pay workers their wages and salaries this month on the stipulated pay date. The 25th day of each month is the customary pay date. Contractors – Puran Brothers Waste Disposal Service,NFL Jerseys Outlet, Cevon’s Waste Management Incorporated and Crawler and Wheeler Waste Disposal Service – after threatening to withdraw their services, were furnished with an accumulated pay package of $24M representing payment up to March.At the municipality’s statutory meeting on Monday, Acting City Treasurer, Andrew Meredith, revealed that in order to justify an injunction which was sought and secured earlier this year to force the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) to reconnect its electricity supply, the municipality was itself forced to pay off its outstanding debt.The payment, according to him, was made on Monday as the matter was set to continue in the court on Tuesday. “At 10:45hours this morning (Monday) we were able to make a payment directly to the cashier at GPL Water Street to the tune of $10M.According to Meredith, the payment represents the dissolution of all charges owed by the municipality for the period January through March of this year, save and except for street lighting.He noted, too, that as at the end of last year “we were able to bring to zero all of the properties and installations that council owed for. The payment which took place this morning (Monday) will once again bring all our balances to zero…” he asserted.As a result of the colossal payout,http://www.cheapcustomjerseys.us.com/MLB/, Meredith revealed that the municipality was in no position to pay wages and salaries.Additionally,Cheap NHL Jerseys, Acting Town Clerk, Yonette Pluck-Cort,China Jerseys, disclosed that the municipality has been in receipt of a letter from the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) which stated that based on a meeting between municipal and union officials payment of an approved 10 percent increase to workers’ remuneration package should have commenced from this month.However, the Acting Town Clerk noted that she has had to ink a letter in response informing the GLU that the payments will not be possible at this time. The GLU as well as the Guyana Local Government Officers Union (GLGOU) were duly informed of the delay in payment and have so far been supportive,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, according to King.“We regret that we are unable to pay our workers but we are working in earnest to pay them as soon as possible. We are grateful to all of the workers for bearing up with us and we are appreciative that they are committed to ensuring that the municipality is able to fulfil its mandate…especially those workers who are manning the sluices and are responsible for keeping the canals clear.”According to King, the municipality is appealing to all defaulting property owners to pay up their taxes, adding that this is the main source of revenue that is being tackled by the municipality in order to make necessary payments.