Petaling Jaya City Council


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The Petaling Jaya City Council is the city council which administers the city of Petaling Jaya in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. This council was established after the city was officially granted city status on 20 June 2006. Their jurisdiction covers an area of 97 square kilometres.
The council consists of the mayor plus twenty-four councillors appointed to serve a one-year term by the Selangor State Government. MBPJ is responsible for public health and sanitation, waste removal and management, town planning, environmental protection and building control, social and economic development and general maintenance functions of urban infrastructure.

History

In the early 1950s, Kuala Lumpur experienced congestion as a result of a rapid population growth and squatters existing in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. To overcome this problem, the State Government identified "Effingham Estate", a 1,200-acre rubber plantation in Jalan Klang Lama to create a new settlement known as Petaling Jaya.
The party entrusted to govern the new settlement was the District Officer of Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya Board before being taken over by a statutory body, namely Petaling Jaya Authority at the end of 1954.
Petaling Jaya made history on 1 January 1964 when the Selangor State gazetted a Township Board with financial autonomy to govern the city.
On 1 January 1977, Petaling Jaya Town Authority was upgraded to Petaling Jaya Municipal Council, pursuant to the Local Government Act 1976 by the government. On 20 June 2006, Petaling Jaya Municipal Council was upgraded as Petaling Jaya City Council.
Now, the administrative area of MBPJ is 97.2 square kilometres which is rapidly growing. Petaling Jaya has a total population of over 619,925 people and the number of property holding of 217,930. Petaling Jaya is now known as the leading growth centre in Selangor.
The Administrative Council consists of 25 Councillors led by a mayor. Councillors are appointed by the Selangor State Executive Council. The Mayor is an officer of the Federal Government appointed by the state administration after obtaining the consent of the Menteri Besar. A mayor works full-time, assisted by a Deputy Mayor and Head of the Departments in setting and implementing the vision, mission, quality policy, objectives and activities of the Council. The Council approved a Council legislation draft and forming policies to be implemented by the departments.

Appointed president & mayors of Petaling Jaya

Since 1977, the Municipal & city has been led by four mayors. The previous and incumbent mayors are listed as below:
NoPresident & MayorTerm startTerm end
1Mokhtar Hadi Awang1 January 197718 May 1979
2Mohamad Azizan Abdullah18 May 19798 April 1989
3Datin Marsilla Mahmood8 April 198931 December 1992
4Mat Erendi Rafique1 January 199318 May 1995
5Amir Haikal Ahmad18 May 199531 December 2004
6Ahmad Termizi Puteh 1 January 200528 August 2006
7Mohammad Roslan Sakiman28 August 20061 January 2013
8Alinah Ahmad1 January 201331 December 2014
9Mohd. Azizi Mohd. Zain1 April 20154 April 2019
10Mohd Sayuthi Bakar4 April 2019Incumbent

Current appointed councillors by party

2018/2020 Session

PKR

  1. Suriase Gengiah
  2. Chan Pak Keung
  3. Tang Fuie Koh
  4. Anwar Nekhan
  5. Derek John Fernandez
  6. Ong Swee Long
  7. Sugumaran Annamalai
  8. Ermeemarianna Saadon
  9. Ahmad Akhir Pawan Chik
  10. Raja Fairuz Raja Mazlan
  11. vacant

    DAP

  12. Quratulain Atiqah Norzahirul Anuar
  13. Leong Chee Cheng
  14. Wong Swee Sang
  15. Loyis Uding
  16. Elaine Magdaline Nathaniel
  17. N. K Thayalan
  18. Terence Tan Teck Seng
  19. Farhan Haziq Mohamed
  20. Ong Yew Thai

    AMANAH

  21. Rahibah Che Omar
  22. Zamri Mohamad

    BERSATU

  23. Mohamad Shakirien Dato’ Abd Razak

    NGO Quota Appointee

  24. Sakinah Bibi Nagoor

    Departments

  25. Customer Management
  26. Treasury
  27. Development Planning
  28. Engineering
  29. Health and Environmental Service
  30. Asset Management and Valuation
  31. Building Control
  32. Community Development
  33. Enforcement
  34. Landscape
  35. Licensing
  36. Solid Waste Management and Public Sanitary
  37. Legal
  38. Corporate Communication
  39. Internal Audit and Integrity
  40. One Stop Centre Unit
  41. Commissioner of Building Unit
  42. Information Technology

    Administration Area

Below are the administration area for MBPJ which further breakdown into 24 zones.



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