The Town Clerk (TC) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the City. The Office of the Town Clerk exists to provide leadership, guidance, strategic management and coordination of all Council activities.  Furthermore, it will interpret Government policies into implementable programmes and projects in the context of the National Decentralisation Policy.

The role of planning department is to plan the overall layout of the district, upgrading of shanty areas to modern standards, setting up of township boundaries, coming up with standard building plans which have to be adopted by everyone building, land distribution, processing of title deeds, HIV/AIDS, gender and human rights sensitisation, and community development activities. Through the section of public health, ensure a clean, healthy and green environment.

To protect the public against public health hazards and frauds in the sell and use of food and grow, put into effect and uphold an efficient and cost effective waste management system for the city. The following are the sections

  1. Solid Waste Management Unit: In charge of solid waste management in the district
  2. Funeral Services: In charge of disposal of the dead, claimed and unclaimed and body transfers
  • Public Health Inspectorate: In charge of all public health inspections (premises and food inspections), nuisance control and follow ups on public complaints.

The role of this department is to facilitate engineering services such as; feeder roads, borehole drilling, inspection of buildings, scrutinizing building plans to make sure it’s the required standard, providing burial site, fire brigade services, maintenance of plant and machinery,

The department administrates all housing related services.  It integrates Human Settlements acts as an agent for Provincial Government and is working with them to achieve their vision, to develop sustainable integrated human settlements.  The department is also responsible for planning and implementation of various social services in low income groups, management of social amenities and recreation facilities run by the Local Authority. 

Finance Department is responsible for effective and efficient mobilisation and prudent utilisation of financial resources in order to enhance smooth operations of the council in the city of Livingstone. It has five (5) sections as follows:

  1. Revenue: The section is responsible for effective and efficient collection of all revenues due to the Council in order to finance Councils operations.
  2. Accountancy: This section is responsible for; Management of budget preparation process and maintenance of books of accounts for prudent utilisation of resources and timely production of financial reports for both internal and external users in order to facilitate decision making.
  • Information Technology: Management of all database activities including their security requirements in order to enhance performance and business continuity, Effective installation and management of IT infrastructure in order to enhance operations and Effective co-ordination and management of the provision of online services in order to improve service delivery.
  1. Technical: Co-ordinating the timely production of financial reports for both internal and external users in order to facilitate decision making and Effective management and maintenance of the assets register in order to determine the value of and safeguard council assets.
  2. Expenditure: This section is responsible for; Effective monitoring of expenditure in order to ensure compliance with the council’s budget and Effective management of the payroll in order to ensure that expenditure on personal emoluments is contained within the budget limits

Staff establishment, management of assets, records keeping, training and development, recruitment, staff appraisals, minutes and report writing, discipline, explanation of conditions of service to staff, Public relations services.

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