Following on from the meeting some of us attended with the Mayor earlier this year prior to the elections. Now re-elected for a record fourth term, he is keen to carry through the commitments made at that meeting and has appointed one of his project managers to help towards this. It is worth bearing in mind however that since the election, certain things that were once under the control of the mayor have changed and are no longer in his control, one example is listed below:
Today I met up with with Recai from the Belidesiye who from now on will email me directly with any important news items and also anything of significance broadcast over the tannoy systems. I will then check the grammar etc and post on here and also on the Fethiye ex-pats page on Facebook.
One important item he told me today was that following the elections, a decision has been made to relieve each Belidesiye of responsibility for the water supply, this has now been centralised to Mugla who will with immediate effect resume all responsibility for meter reading and bill collections. This means that Fethiye are no longer able to accept payment for water and as such any standing orders with the bank are also void. The problem being that Mugla have not yet established a base in Fethiye and this is unlikely to happen before May 20th 2014.
Obviously people visiting holiday homes are trying to pay bills only to be told they can't and are worried about the prospect of disconnection. Unfortunately that's all of the information he had, he sounded pretty confident that water would not be disconnected for non payment but asked that people returning to the UK may consider leaving some money with friends or neighbours to pay the bill once Mugla gets it's act together.
That's it for now, future updates will appear here as I get them.
