CitCo Imposes Measures on Utility Companies That Damage Streets

The Belize City Council has reestablished its Utility Coordination Unit. Utility companies often get blamed for leaving streets in worse condition after working on their infrastructure. This unit will oversee these projects to ensure that when a utility company digs up your street, they leave it as good as they found it, if not better.

 

Bernard Wagner, Mayor, Belize City

“We want to continue urge our utility entities; we have a good relationship. We have put together the Utility Coordination Unit. I sent out letters last week for those utility providers to have representatives on that committee and that committee is established by law. You have that committee which vets, to say that utility company will go on Penn Road to do works on their infrastructure, they will then send in an application to that utility coordination unit, they ten vet it and sign off on it to ensure there is some measure of accountability and at the completion of the world that the utility company would do they would be held responsible to put it back where it was before.”