{"id":2237,"date":"2025-02-27T16:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatkeilm.gov.za\/web\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T10:39:18","slug":"special-council-meeting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatkeilm.gov.za\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/special-council-meeting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Council Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_-3220065528414127387MsoPlainText\">Today, following the closure of a 3 day strategic planning session, the Political Leadership of GKM converged in Chintsa for a Special Council Meeting. The Council meeting was chaired by Hon Speaker Cllr N Mgema.<u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-3220065528414127387MsoPlainText\">Hon Mayor Cllr NW Tekile tabled the 2024\/25 financial year Budget Adjustment which\u00a0 was then approved by Council.<\/p>\n<div id=\"grid-gallery-28-46777\" data-gg-id=\"28\" data-title=\"Special Council Meeting\" data-grid-type=\"0\" data-offset=\"5.3\" data-area-position=\"left\" data-icons=\"false\" data-preloader=\"true\" data-width=\"215\" data-height=\"215\" data-padding=\"0\" data-quicksand=\"disabled\" data-quicksand-duration=\"none\" data-popup-theme=\"theme_6\" data-popup-type=\"pretty-photo\" data-popup-image-text=\"data-description\" data-popup-widthsize=\"auto\" data-popup-heightsize=\"auto\" data-popup-i18n-words=\"{&quot;close&quot;:&quot;close&quot;,&quot;next&quot;:&quot;next&quot;,&quot;previous&quot;:&quot;previous&quot;,&quot;start_slideshow&quot;:&quot;start slideshow&quot;,&quot;stop_slideshow&quot;:&quot;stop slideshow&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;of&quot;:&quot;of&quot;,&quot;prev&quot;:&quot;prev&quot;,&quot;cExpand&quot;:&quot;Expand&quot;,&quot;cPrevious&quot;:&quot;Previous&quot;,&quot;cNext&quot;:&quot;Next&quot;,&quot;cExpandStr&quot;:&quot;Expand the image&quot;,&quot;cRotate&quot;:&quot;Rotate&quot;,&quot;cDetails&quot;:&quot;Details&quot;}\" data-popup-slideshow=\"false\" data-popup-slideshow-speed=\"2500\" data-popup-hoverstop=\"true\" data-popup-slideshow-auto=\"false\" data-popup-background=\"\" data-popup-transparency=\"30\" data-popup-disable-history=\"\" data-popup-disable-changed-url=\"\" data-popup-border-type=\"solid\" data-popup-border-color=\"\" data-popup-border-width=\"\" data-popup-border-enable=\"\" data-fullscreen=\"false\" data-hide-tooltip=\"false\" data-caption-font-family=\"Default\" data-caption-text-size=\"140\" data-is-mobile=\"0\" data-caption-mobile=\"false\" data-hide-long-tltp-title=\"0\" data-caption-disabled-on-mobile=\"false\" data-popup-placement-type=\"0\" data-social-sharing=\"{&quot;enabled&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;gallerySharing&quot;:{&quot;enabled&quot;:null,&quot;position&quot;:null},&quot;imageSharing&quot;:{&quot;enabled&quot;:null,&quot;wrapperClass&quot;:&quot; 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