DOHA: The Central Municipal Council (CMC) will discuss the safety of tents being set up inside residential facilities and the issue of street vendors in its session today.
The meeting is also expected to discuss complaints about dumping household wastes on building roofs and a proposal to cancel allotment of plots to Qatari citizens that they did not develop so for. The above proposals had been made by several CMC members and its services committee, Al Sharq reported yesterday.
CMC issued a new internal regulation and it was approved by the State Cabinet. The regulation allows the CMC to set up a new committee to deal with environmental issues, Engineer Jassem bin Abdullah Al Maliki told the daily.
The new regulation has also allowed the CMC to select its new secretary general through voting in one of its forthcoming sessions, he added.
Based on the results of the election, the Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning will appoint the new secretary general.
As per the new rules, the CMC members are not permitted to be absent in more than three sessions in a row or six sessions altogether.
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