CHAIRMAN (in Cantonese):—Ladies and Gentlemen, the meeting is called to order.
MINUTES
The minutes of the meeting held on 9 July 1985, were confirmed.
STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN
CHAIRMAN (in Cantonese):—
Museum of History and Science and Technology
The Urban Council is pleased that the Governor, Sir Edward YOUDE, has given his blessing to our proposals for the phased development of a combined project for a permanent Museum of History and a permanent Museum of Science and Technology.
It is widely recognized that museums are an invaluable tool to educate the community at large, young people in particular. Therefore, governments and city administrations of vision realize that money spent now on the provision of museums will pay rich dividends in the future even though immediate results might not be seen.
Apart from serving as a non-formal educational institution to the entire community, the Museum of Science and Technology - which will be Phase One - can be regarded as a cultural and recreational facility because it will reflect the cultural heritage and history of Hong Kong. In addition, this Museum will help raise the scientific and technological standards of Hong Kong.
We hope that the Museum of Science and Technology will be completed and opened to the public by 1989. The Museum, with a total area of 13,500 square metres, will be built at the Chatham Road East site at a cost of about $150 million derived from Council's own funding over the coming years.
Hawker Report
The Urban Council's Working Party to Review Hawker and Related Policies has already completed a draft report on hawker and market policies after more than a year's deliberations and consultations with interested groups, including District Boards, hawker associations, relevant Government departments and a number of prominent academic figures.
The report will cover subjects concerning hawker policy philosophy, hawker licensing, street management, enforcement and control, resiting of hawkers and market viability, as well as special considerations for newspaper, cooked food and wall stall hawkers.
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In line with the Council's ongoing process towards more open government, the Working Party will seek further consultations with all sectors of the community including the District Boards, relevant Government departments, interested groups and members of the public before finalizing the report.
Keep Hong Kong Clean Campaign
It is encouraging to note that our message to keep Hong Kong clean is still keeping up momentum since the Urban Council's Keep Hong Kong Clean Campaign started in 1972. Last year a total of 38,282 litterbugs were convicted by courts for various litter offences. The figure is a drop of 11 per cent as compared with that of 1983.
Overall, our city has taken on a much cleaner look than say 10 years ago. In order to reflect the present standards of cleanliness, the Urban Council's Clean Hong Kong Committee has been retitled the 'Keep Hong Kong Clean Committee'.
Since the Committee has accomplished its original objective of preventing the deteriorating standards of cleanliness throughout urban Hong Kong, its present and future task is to maintain even higher standards of cleanliness.
The anti-littering campaign must be pursued with meticulous and comprehensive planning and with relentless vigour and persistence.
Keeping Hong Kong clean is the costliest single area of activity of the Urban Council. The continuous cleaning up of Hong Kong takes up about 23 per cent of the Urban Services Department's yearly expenditure. If the community at large can help us even more to keep Hong Kong clean, the Council's expenditure on environmental hygiene can be reduced, and the savings can be transferred to the provision of more recreational, cultural and amenities facilities.
Urbco to go Bilingual
As part of the Urban Council's long-term commitment to Hong Kong becoming a Special Administrative Region of China in 1997, the Council is moving in the direction of full bilingualism.
Already, the Council's monthly open meetings as well as its Select Committee and Sub-Committee meetings are being conducted in both English and Chinese with the provision of simultaneous interpretation service.
The next step is to have all Council minutes and papers translated into Chinese. But in view of the very large volume of documents involved, this move will be introduced by stages. In 1984–85 the total number of Committee papers and Committee minutes amounted to 3,400 and 310 respectively, and this volume is still increasing.
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CHAIRMAN (in Cantonese):-Ladies and Gentlemen, the meeting is called to
order.
MINUTES
The minutes of the meeting held on 9 July 1985, were confirmed.
STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN
CHAIRMAN (in Cantonese):—
Museum of History and Science and Technology
The Urban Council is pleased that the Governor, Sir Edward YOUDE, has given his blessing to our proposals for the phased development of a combined project for a permanent Museum of History and a permanent Museum of Science and Technology.
It is widely recognized that museums are an invaluable tool to educate the community at large, young people in particular. Therefore, governments and city administrations of vision realize that money spent now on the provision of museums will pay rich dividends in the future even though immediate results might not be seen.
Apart from serving as a non-formal educational institution to the entire community, the Museum of Science and Technology - which will be Phase One - can be regarded as a cultural and recreational facility because it will reflect the cultural heritage and history of Hong Kong. In addition, this Museum will help raise the scientific and technological standards of Hong Kong.
We hope that the Museum of Science and Technology will be completed and opened to the public by 1989. The Museum, with a total area of 13 500 square metres, will be built at the Chatham Road East site at a cost of about $150 million derived from Council's own funding over the coming years.
Hawker Report
The Urban Council's Working Party to Review Hawker and Related Policies has already completed a draft report on hawker and market policies after more than a year's deliberations and consultations with interested groups, including District Boards, hawker associations, relevant Government departments and a number of prominent academic figures.
The report will cover subjects concerning hawker policy philosophy, hawker licensing, street management, enforcement and control, resiting of hawkers and market viability, as well as special considerations for newspaper, cooked food
and wall stall hawkers.
HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
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In line with the Council's ongoing process towards more open government, the Working Party will seek further consultations with all sectors of the community including the District Boards, relevant Government departments, interested groups and members of the public before finalizing the report.
Keep Hong Kong Clean Campaign
It is encouraging to note that our message to keep Hong Kong clean is still keeping up momentum since the Urban Council's Keep Hong Kong Clean Campaign started in 1972. Last year a total of 38 282 litterbugs were convicted by courts for various litter offences. The figure is a drop of 11 per cent as compared with that of 1983.
Overall, our city has taken on a much cleaner look than say 10 years ago. In order to reflect the present standards of cleanliness, the Urban Council's Clean Hong Kong Committee has been retitled the 'Keep Hong Kong Clean Committee'.
Since the Committee has accomplished its original objective of preventing the deteriorating standards of cleanliness throughout urban Hong Kong, its present and future task is to maintain even higher standards of cleanliness.
The anti-littering campaign must be pursued with meticulous and compre- hensive planning and with relentless vigor and persistence.
Keeping Hong Kong clean is the costliest single area of activity of the Urban Council. The continuous cleaning up of Hong Kong takes up about 23 per cent of the Urban Services Department's yearly expenditure. If the community at large can help us even more to keep Hong Kong clean, the Council's expenditure on environmental hygiene can be reduced, and the savings can be transferred to the provision of more recreational, cultural and amenities facilities.
Urbco to go Bilingual
As part of the Urban Council's long-term commitment to Hong Kong becoming a Special Administrative Region of China in 1997, the Council is moving in the direction of full bilingualism.
Already, the Council's monthly open meetings as well as its Select Committee and Sub-Committee meetings are being conducted in both English and Chinese with the provision of simultaneous interpretation service.
The next step is to have all Council minutes and papers translated into Chinese. But in view of the very large volume of documents involved, this move will be introduced by stages. In 1984–85 the total number of Committee papers and Committee minutes amounted to 3 400 and 310 respectively, and this volume is still increasing.
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