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The City of Cape Town’s Recreation and Parks Department reminds the public that there’s still just over a week left to comment on the draft Sport Assets Management Policy.

The policy has been developed to address and regularise the management of the City’s sporting facilities.

In the early 2000s, the then Sport and Recreation Department introduced the Sport and Recreation Institutional Framework, which set out a facility management strategy based on the establishment of sports Facility Management Committees.

Municipal Facility Management Committees (MFMC) were introduced as a mechanism to informally standardise both the engagement between the City and sport clubs, as well as to create a governance framework that would address how sport assets could be managed.

‘This system has been more successful in some instances than others, depending on how well organised the management committees are. There are also no clearly defined and documented roles and responsibilities, which has unfortunately resulted in incidents of mismanagement, lack of accountability and asset maintenance, among others.

‘It’s imperative that the City is able to meet the needs of the growing sporting fraternity, and this draft policy aims to put all of the right mechanisms and systems in place to ensure that we can manage our sporting facilities optimally, for the benefit of the sporting fraternity and communities in general. I urge interested and affected parties who have not done so yet, to engage with the draft and submit their comments before the deadline,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services and Health, Councillor Patricia Van der Ross.

The public participation process started on 1 November until 15 December 2021, and resumed on 15 January 2022 until 31 January 2022.

Comments, input or recommendations in the draft policy may be submitted in any of the following ways:

• Email: Biance.Johnson@capetown.gov.za
• Hand-delivered: nearest subcouncil office
• Online: www.capetown.gov.za/haveyoursay

The draft policy is available here: /media/[[DynamicPath]]/Draft_Sport_Assets_Management_Policy.pdf

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