New board elected for HPP

Writer De Waal Steyn

A new board of directors for Hermanus Public Protection (HPP) was elected on Monday evening at the 21st Annual General Meeting, following the resignation of the previous board.

According to outgoing chair, Roger Smith, the board made a unanimous decision to resign after it was served by the Overstrand Municipality with a final notice of termination of the Central Improvement District (CID) agreement between the municipality and HPP.

The new board of HPP consists of Guy Redford (left), Errol van Staden, Tobie Louw, Clinton Lerm and Barry van Vuren. Ward Councillor Kari Brice retains her seat as a non-voting member.

HPP announced in January of this year that it will begin with a winding-down process after it was informed by Coenie Groenewald, municipal manager, in December last year that the municipality can no longer impose the additional rates for HPP for the 2019/2020 municipal financial year, commencing on 1 July 2019. This has come about as a result of changes that have been made to the Property Rates Act, the Special Rating Area By-law and the Special Rating Area Policy. The levy that residents were paying was stopped on 30 June.

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