11/09/2026
*Goromonzi RDC consolidates 2027 budget*
11/09/26
[GOROMONZI]
A meeting to consolidate and prioritise the proposed projects to be undertaken in the 2027 Goromonzi Rural District Council (GRDC) budget was tabled at during the Finance Committee meeting on Friday 11th September 2026 that was held in the GRDC boardroom Ruwa.
For three (3) days, the Goromonzi Rural District Council (GRDC) held its 2027 Budget Consultations, starting with the Chinamhora Cluster on the 1st of September which was held at the Chirodzero Council Suboffice, followed by the Chikwaka Cluster at Juru Suboffice on the 2nd September and at Goromonzi Rural Service Centre on the 3rd September 2026.
The consultations then produced basketfuls of projects which were then priotised and consolidated on the 11th September this year.
The 2027 budget mainly focuses on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programmes; education; infrastructure; the aquisition of four (4) revenue mobilisation vehicles;borehole drilling rig; the procurement of refuse compactor; the purchase of a grader;
The 2027 budget will be guided by issues to do with the impact that will be caused by the projects to be undertaken climate change; global shocks; minimum service delivery standards pronounced by the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works; the revenue generated; revenue recovery measures to be implemented; devolution funds to be availed by the Treasury or Central Government. Councillors were called upon to go back to their respective wards where they are expected to ensure that their project requirements in terms of roads, clinics, schools, refuse collection, dump sites, water, among others will be
Outgoing DDC Prisca Dube urged councillors to align the 2027 to the expectations of the residents as they will be required to score marks of the projects that would have undertaken by the local authority.
The meeting which was chaired by Finance chairperson, Alderman Andrew Mhembere, was attended by GRDC vice chairperson
vice council chairperson, Spiwe Musekiwa; members of the GRDC Finance Committee; chairpersons of five (5) council committees, Audit, Environmental, Audit, Social Services, Planning, Roads; representatives of Vendors' business, small to medium enterprises; politicians; officials from the Goromonzi District Coordinating Committee (DCC). It was also attended by the outgoing District Development Coordinator (DDC) for Goromonzi, Prisca Dube and the incoming acting DDC, Brighton Makore. Dube has been promoted to be the Provincial Director of Local Governance Services for Mashonaland Central.