Dispute over valuation roll

THE Kouga Municipality insists it is not intimidated or even nervous following a complaint laid with the public protector accusing the municipality's new general valuation roll of being incorrect, flawed and containing haphazard valuations.

The complaint was compiled by the municipality's former valuation company, Kouga Consortium of Valuers, which tendered to compile the valuations roll but did not get the contract, losing out to DDP Valuers.

Kouga Consortium of Valuers head John Boshoff then filed a complaint with the public protector dated April 8. The municipality, however, has not received any confirmation or correspondence from the public protector in this regard, according to Kouga Municipality spokeswoman Laura-Leigh Randall. - Tremaine van Aardt