New Resident spells out priorities

Over to you: Sim (left) presenting the office files to Hii at the duty handing over ceremony.

SIBU: New Resident of Sibu Division Hii Chang Kee has listed community development enhancement as one of his top priorities.

Speaking after the official handing over of duty from his predecessor, Sim Kok Kee, yesterday, he said they would try to create a close synergy between community leaders and the councillors in the division, including attending meet-the-people sessions with them.

“Community leaders should be active on the ground to engage the local communities so that people’s issues and problems could be resolved amicably,” he said.

Hii said his office would work closely with the three District Offices in Sibu, Selangau and Kanowit and all divisional government departments.

He also said he would continue to uphold the state’s development agenda through coordinating all the projects in the division implemented by the various departments and to continue state civil service transformation agenda as spearhead by the state secretary.

Hii, who was previously with the Sibu Municipal Council in which he was its secretary from 2009, thanked the state government and the state secretary for their trust in appointing him for the post.

Sim, who had held the post for six-and-a-half years, meanwhile, urged the staff to continue working as a team under the new leader for the people and the government.

He said he had been transferred to the Drainage and Irrigation Department Kuching.