To provide operational and services excellence, innovation, community engagement and observance of good financial management and accountability. This is in agreement with the Republican Constitution (Amendment) Act No.2 of 2016 Part IX on the system of Developed Governance (Article 147 (2)) and Part XI on the system of Local Government.  

FUNCTIONS

1. To establish and maintain offices and buildings for the purpose of transacting the business of the council and for public meetings and assembles.
2. To insure against losses, damages, risks and liabilities which the council may incur.
3. To maintain law and order and ensure national security and the good administration of the council.
4. To prohibit and control the erection and display of advertisements and advertising devises in, or in view of, street and other public places
5. To establish and maintain farms and allotment gardens.
6. To take and require the taking of measures for the-
   1. storage, market and preservation of agricultural produce;
   2. conservation of natural resources, and
   3. prevention of soil erosion, including the prohibition and control of cultivation.
7. To take and require the taking of measures for control of grass weeds and wild vegetation and for the suppression and control of plant and insect pests and diseases.
8. To maintain, protect and control local forests and woodlands.
9. To control the keeping and movement of livestock.
10. To establish and maintain ponds.
11. To establish and maintain grazing grounds.
12. To take measures for the destruction and control of bees and of dangerous animals and reptiles.
13. To control the slaughtering of animals the meat of which is intended for human consumption; to control the sale of such meat; and to require the disposal of diseased animals and carcasses and of meat which is unfit for human consumption.
14. To establish and maintain abattoirs, cold storage facilities and plans for the processing of by-products from abattoirs.
15. To control the movement of the carcasses of animals.
    1. to establish and maintain roads;
    2. to exercise general control, care and maintenance of all public roads, streets, avenues, lanes, sanitary lanes and Foot walks forming part thereof, bridges, squares, ferries and water courses and to remove all obstacles therefrom;
    3. to close or divert any public road street or throughfare;
    4. to close or divert ferries and water courses;
    5. to declare a street or road to be a public street or road;
    6. to compile and maintain a register of all public streets and roads;
    7. to make up to tar macadamised standard any private street and to charge the statutory leaseholders or occupiers of the land abutting on such streets in proportion to frontage and to recover the costs as a civil debt; and
16. To prohibit and control the erection and laying in, under or over, and the removal from, streets and other public places of-
    1. posts, wires, pipes, conduits, cable and other apparatus; (b) temporary platforms, seats and other structures;
    2. street decorations.
17. To control traffic and the parking of vehicles and, for that purpose to establish and maintain parking meters and premises for the parking of vehicles.
18. To take measures for the promotion of road safety
19. To prepare and administer schemes for the encouragement of and participation in, community development.