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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1987

WAS BEING REVIEWED

TO

SUBMISSION WOULD BR ESTIMATES TO INCREASE

A

HE SAID THE QUARTERLY GRANT ΤΟ MACS ENSURE THAT IT KEPT UP WITH INFLATION, WHILE MADE IN THE FIVE-YEAR FORECAST AND THE 1988-89 THE PROVISION OF THE DISTRICT OFFICE SERVICES VOTE TO HELP FINANCE MORE AC AND MAC PROJECTS.

"IN RECOGNITION OF THE VALUABLE SERVICES PROVIDED BY MACS, THE CHINESE TEMPLES COMMITTEE HAS GENEROUSLY AGREED TO PROVIDE AN INITIAL

SETTING GRANT OF $100,000 TO ASSIST THEM IN

UP THEIR OFFICES UNDERTAKING COMMUNITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES," MR LIAO SAID.

AND

MR

EXPLAINING THE CLOSE LINKS BETWEEN ACS AND DISTRICT BOARDS,

THROUGH CROSS-MEMBERSHIP OF LIAO SAID THIS WAS MAINTAINED

THE TWO BODIES, AND IT WOULD NOT BE ADVISABLE TO FORMALISE THE CURRENT ARRANGEMENT BY MAKING ELECTED DB MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO AREA COMMITTEE INTRODUCR AN MEMBERS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE CONSTITUENCIES AS IT WOULD ELEMENT OF RIGIDITY INTO THE

MIGHT NOT BE ENTIRELY DESIRABLE AT THE RELATIVELY EARLY STAGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION SCHEME.

SYSTEM, WHICH

THE MAINTAINING HE ALSO STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF ROLE OF AC MEMBERS WHOSE MAIN OBJECTIVES WERE TO STIMULATE COMMUNITY SPIRIT AND TO ENCOURAGE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.

VOLUNTARY

A AND

MR LIAO SAID PROVISIONS HAD BEEN MADE ΤΟ SET

THREE CO-ORDINATION TEAMS IN THE ADDITIONAL BUILDING MANAGEMENT

CURRENT SET UP IN FUTURE AS FINANCIAL YEAR, AND THAT MORE TEAMS WOULD RESOURCES PERMITTED.

UP

BE

"THE FOUR BUILDING MANAGEMENT CO-ORDINATION TEAMS SET UP IN EASTERN, YAU MA TEI, MONG KOK AND

TSING HAVE PROVIDED USEFUL 163 BUILDINGS," HR ASSISTANCE TO RESIDENTS AND MANAGEMENT BODIES IN ADDED.

KWAI

ON THE OF OWNERS

FUTURE DISTRICT BOARDS WOULD BE CONSULTED IN THE NEAR NEED TO CHANGE THE LAW TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE FORMATION INCORPORATIONS, MR LIAO SAID.

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