PARISH council representatives on Monday unanimously passed a resolution recommending that the government names a set date for local government elections and entrench it in the Constitution.

The resolution was moved by Councillor Norman Scott of the Greendale Division in the St Catherine Parish Council and seconded by Andrew Wheatley, Mayor of Spanish Town and councillor for the Naggo Head Division in the St Catherine Parish Council.

The local government elections were due in June this year.

“And whereas this meeting in session believes that a specific date of a specific month, for example, the third Tuesday in June of the third year of the life of the parish council/municipality be election day,” the resolution said. “And whereas having local government entrenched in the constitution, the day and month should be entrenched.”

The resolution was passed at a meeting, consisting of mayors, deputy mayors, councillors of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC), the Portmore Municipality and Parish Councils of Jamaica, at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston.

The meeting was aimed at addressing concerns about the procurement guidelines, in the wake of audits of three parish councils, which showed procurement breaches.

The resolution will be sent to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Leader of the Opposition Bruce Golding. Additionally, the resolution will be sent to Cabinet through Dean Peart, Minister of Local Government and Environment for its approval and thereafter Parliament’s enactment.