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III. EXISTING INSTITUTIONS AND MEASURES FOR INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS INTO DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND DECISION-MAKING
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B. Institutional arrangements for environmental management
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2. Human resources and budget
More than 12,000 employees are currently employed by the City Hall of Kuala Lumpur. However, that number is small compared to the total number of residents and commuters being served by the city. City Hall gets its funding from two sources: its own revenue, and grants and loans from the federal government. Its estimated revenue is around M$ 100 million of which about 80 per cent is from property assessments. (Other sources available are payment for licences, fines, planning and building control fees and contributions from the federal government for road maintenance).
The total staff strength of the Department of Environment was 512 as of 1 January 1995. That figure comprised 116 officers in the management and professional group and 396 in the support group. However, that number is inadequate for handling the monitoring and enforcement of environmental issues throughout the whole country. Efforts have been intensified to fill various approved positions in order to boost the number of available environmental staff, both at the head office and the State offices.
In 1995, a total of M$ 17,681,480.00 was allocated by the federal government for Department of Environment operational expenditures, an increase of 12 per cent over the previous year. A total of M$ 17,215,725.57 (97.4 per cent) was spent during the year, whereas the total allocation for implementing development projects amounted to M$ 12,965,000.00 (Department of Environment, 1995).
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