Seremban City Council
Seremban City Council is a local authority in Malaysia which administers Seremban, the capital of Negeri Sembilan, and the surrounding. This agency is under the Negeri Sembilan State Government.
Functions
MBS 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. The main headquarters is located at Persiaran Forest Heights 1, Jalan Seremban-Tampin in Seremban town.Location
Seremban City Council covers the entirety of Seremban district. Clockwise from north, it borders- Jelebu District Council ;
- Kuala Pilah District Council ;
- Rembau District Council ;
- Port Dickson Municipal Council ; as well as
- Kajang Municipal Council and Sepang Municipal Council across the border in Selangor.
History
For more information, refer to Seremban, History
Mayor of Seremban City Council
From 1954, the Council was led by a President who was in office on a yearly basis, occasionally sitting for more than a year. On 23 July 1965, the head of the Council was handed over to the current Menteri Besar at the time.Number | Name | Start Of Term | End of Term |
1 | YM Tunku Mustapha Tunku Besar Burhanuddin | 1954 | 1956 |
2 | Jaafar bin Tahar | 1957 | 1958 |
3 | Tham Tat Ming | 1959 | 1959 |
4 | Robert Singam | 1960 | 1960 |
5 | Lam Teck Choon | 1961 | 1961 |
6 | Chin See Yin | 1962 | 1962 |
7 | Gumam Singh Gill | 1963 | 1964 |
8 | Lai Pong Yuen | 1965 | 22 July 1965 |
Following the Local Governments Act 1976, the head of the Council was referred to as Yang DiPertua. The trend of the Council was headed by the sitting Menteri Besar was overturned in 1998 where the head of the Council was an independent individual.
Number | Name | Start Of Term | End of Term |
1 | YAB Dato' Rais Bin Yatim | 1978 | 1982 |
2 | YAB Dato' Seri Utama Tan Sri Hj Mohd Isa Bin Dato` Hj Abdul Samad | 1982 | 31 Julai 1998 |
3 | Dato' Haji Hassani @ Hassan Bin Mohd. Zain | 1 August 1998 | 7 July 2003 |
4 | Dato' Mohd Jaafar Bin Mohd Atan | 1 August 2003 | 15 August 2004 |
5 | Dato' Haji Abdul Halim Bin Haji Abdul Latif | 1 September 2004 | 31 July 2018 |
6 | Datuk Haji Zazali Bin Salehudin | 1 August 2018 | Incumbent |
Departments
The Council is made up of 14 department as follows.Number | Department |
1 | Building Control Department |
2 | Finance Department |
3 | Engineering Department |
4 | Services Management Department |
5 | Community and Public Relations Department |
6 | Licensing and Cleaning Department |
7 | Valuation and Property Department |
8 | Development Planning Department |
9 | Department of Parks and Landscape |
10 | Department of Information Technology and Communication |
11 | Law and Enforcement Department |
12 | Internal Audit Unit |
13 | Building Commissioner Unit |
14 | One Stop Centre Unit |