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# HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
## ADDRESS BY CHAIRMAN
CHAIRMAN (in Cantonese):-May I call the meeting to order.
CONFIRMATION OF THE MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON 10 DECEMBER 1996
The minutes of the meeting held on 10 December 1996 were confirmed.
PAPERS LAID
The following paper was laid:
Report to the Urban Council by the Secretary, Urban Council, for the month of December 1996.
## MOTIONS
(1) THE CHAIRMAN, URBAN COUNCIL moved the following motion:
'THAT the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 1997/98 and the list of works which the Council proposes to undertake during the next financial year be approved for transmission to the Governor in accordance with Section 39 of the Urban Council Ordinance.'
He said (in Cantonese):-That the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 1997/98 and the list of works which the Council proposes to undertake during the next financial year be approved for transmission to the Governor in accordance with Section 39 of the Urban Council Ordinance.
I move the adoption of to-day's Motion on the Urban Council's Budget officially known as the 'Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure 1997/98', with the accompanying list of capital works for the 1997/98 financial year commencing on 1 April 1997.
The budget before Members is the sum total of all budget papers which have been agreed by the Council's respective relevant functional Select Committees and approved by Members of the Standing Committee of the Whole Council on 7 January 1997.
I understand that the Chairman of the Finance Select Committee, Mr. CHIANG Sai-cheong, will second this motion. I shall therefore leave it to him to spell out the more salient points contained in the budget.
Councillors, I now formally move the motion standing in my name.
Mr. Chiang Sai-Cheong, CHAIRMAN OF THE FINANCE SELECT COMMITTEE (in Cantonese): Mr. Chairman, I rise to second the motion proposing the adoption of the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure 1997/98.
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