The Profit/Rising Sun Neighborhood Democratic Council on the West Coast Berbice is aiming to execute a $5.5 M work programme in its ten villages this year even though it is hobbled by constraints such as low payments of rates.The Profit/Rising Sun NDC Office.Veteran Profit/Rising Sun NDC Councillor Mr Fitzroy FordyceOverseer Ms Andrea Moriah said that the sum is to be spent on further upgrades of residential drains as well as maintenance of roads,Cheap Basketball Jerseys, dams and bridges within the NDC which is bracketed by Rising Sun in the east and Plantation Profitt in the west.In between are villages such as Weldaad and Belladrum.Moriah said that residential drains are to be upgraded to prevent flooding during rains.These village drains are part of the tertiary drainage network in West Berbice .Further upgrades will ensure that they can drain efficiently into the secondary and primary drainage network owned by the Mahaica Mahaicony Abary Agricultural Development Authority (MMA/ADA).The upgrades will also include the installation of drainage tubes and self-acting sluice doors in specific areas of some of the villages.The NDC plans to upgrade streets at Paradise village at a cost of $3M with part of the costs for this and other projects being met by a $3M annual Government subvention.A secondary drainage canal within the Profit /Rising Sun NDC.Overseer Moriah said that the NDC would want to do more but has been hobbled by problems such as outdated valuations on lands and buildings,Cheap NFL Jerseys, low levels of payments by residents and inability to collect rates from new buildings because their value had not been officially assessed.On the issue of valuations,NFL Jerseys Outlet From China, Moriah said that the last valuations of land and buildings in the NDC had taken place more than two decades ago.“These old valuations are the figures that we are now working with even though the worth of many of those buildings have increased since then due to renovations and extensions and so on,Cheap Jerseys China,” she said.With these outdated valuations the highest rate retrievable for many residents in these villages is about $3,Wholesale China Jerseys,000 per year.Additionally,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, there have been many new constructions since then but the NDC cannot collect rates from the owners because the value of these newly constructed buildings are yet to be appraised.Another woe is the fact that even though the rates are low many residents have not been paying promptly. The arrears rates due to the Council at the end of last year amounted to $5.6M.The Overseer said that the NDC is as a result struggling to carry out its mandate.The Council remains optimistic that this year will see an improvement in payments so that other works such as renovation of its aging Office can eventually take place.