A Review of Effects of Quality Municipal Services on Citizen Satisfaction in Malaysian Municipal Council: A Content Analysis

Abstract

Government was established primarily to provide services that will make life worth living to their citizens. Accordingly, local governments as third tier government in Malaysia are created to bring government closer to the local communities’ at the grassroots and for transformation of lives at the rural level. One of the ways of bringing government closer to the people at the grassroots is through the delivery of service in a satisfactory, timely, effective and adequate manner. This paper is therefore an examination of Local Government and Municipal Service Delivery in Malaysia. It argues that the constitutional mandate of local council in terms of “function performance” has not been translated into reality in many occasions. Thus, the paper concludes and recommends that municipal council must attempt to overcome the challenges that have by-passed their performance. It is only by this can they be positioned to render cutting services in a timely, effective, adequate, prompt and satisfactory manner to justify their continuous existence and huge financial allocations to them. Municipal awareness also gives a sense of satisfaction of the citizens. The study recommends that there is needs for local municipal to be strategies to makes the local council more robust for enhancing the lives of inhabitants and to foster good relationship between the management and local people in the area. The study also gives recommendation of enlighten the local community on the important of community participation in provision and maintenance of public service delivery.