Malacca City Council

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Malacca Historic City Council

Majlis Bandaraya Melaka Bersejarah
Malacca City Emblem.svg
Emblem in use since the declaration of Malacca Town as a historic city in 1989. When Malacca Town gained city status and became Malacca City in 2003, the words on the emblem were changed from "Majlis Perbandaran Melaka Bandaraya Bersejarah" to "Majlis Bandaraya Melaka Bersejarah". [1]
Type
Type
History
Founded15 April 1989
Preceded byHistoric City of Malacca Municipal Council
Leadership
Mayor
Datuk Hj. Shadan bin Hj. Othman
City Secretary
Ahmad Azlan bin Ahmad Salleh
Meeting place
Melaka Malaysia Majlis-Bandaraya-Melaka-Bersejarah-01.jpg
Bangunan MBMB, Jalan Graha Makmur, Ayer Keroh, Malacca (Headquarters of the city council since 1992)
Website
www.mbmb.gov.my

Malacca City Council, officially known as the Malacca Historic City Council or Melaka Historic City Council [a] (Malay : Majlis Bandaraya Melaka Bersejarah, MBMB or MHCC) is the city council which administers Malacca City and most part of Melaka Tengah District. It is responsible for public health and sanitation, cleanliness management, town planning, environmental protection and building control, social and economic development and general maintenance functions of urban infrastructure. [2] The MBMB main headquarters is located at Graha Makmur (roughly translates as Prosper Building) in Ayer Keroh, opposite that of Hang Tuah Jaya Municipal Council at Melaka Mall (formerly known as Plaza Kotamas).

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History

Former Historic City of Malacca Municipal Council building which is now the People's Museum Melaka Malaysia People's-Museum-01.jpg
Former Historic City of Malacca Municipal Council building which is now the People's Museum

The Municipality of the Town and Fort of Malacca, 11 square kilometres (4.2 sq mi) wide, was established in 1824 by the British East India Company for the purpose of town planning, public order and collection of assessment rates. The council's activities were briefly disrupted during Japanese occupation of Malaya from 1942 until 1945, and resumed afterwards. [3]

On 1 January 1977, the Municipality Authority and the Melaka Tengah Rural District Council (Majlis Daerah Luar Bandar Melaka Tengah) merged to form the Melaka Tengah Municipal Council (Majlis Perbandaran Melaka Tengah) with an administration area of 297.19 square kilometres (114.75 sq mi), encompassing the whole Melaka Tengah District. The council later became known as the Malacca Municipal Council (Majlis Perbandaran Melaka, MPM or MMC) in 1987 and the Historic City of Malacca Municipal Council (Majlis Perbandaran Melaka Bandaraya Bersejarah, MPMBB or HCMMC) on 15 April 1989 when the federal government granted the Historic City title to the town of Malacca. [4] The headquarters of the council was originally located at the building in the city centre, which now houses the People's Museum, Kite Museum and the Beauty Museum, before being moved to the present building in Ayer Keroh on 15 April 1992 named Graha Makmur. [5] The council obtained its present name on 15 April 2003 when Malacca Town was granted city status. [6]

On 1 January 2010, part of its area including the headquarters' building, covering 57.66 square kilometres (22.26 sq mi) was separated for the establishment of Hang Tuah Jaya Municipal Council (Majlis Perbandaran Hang Tuah Jaya, MPHTJ or HTJMC). [7] But the addition of a new administration area covering 30.86 square kilometres (11.92 sq mi) which was created out of land reclamation over the past 2 decades, resulted in the council's area currently stands at 270.39 square kilometres (104.40 sq mi).

In February 2019, the upgrade of the Graha Makmur administration building was started, to repaint the whole exterior wall into white color and use white industrial zinc slices for the roof replacing blue color. [8] The project costs around 7 to 8 million ringgit. [9]

Following a land swap with Hang Tuah Jaya Municipal Council area that took effect from 1 January 2023 according to Government Gazette dated 4 August 2022, the headquarters of the Malacca City Council became a part of the Malacca City municipal area again. [10]

List of mayors

#Name of MayorsTerm startTerm end
1Zaini Md Nor [11] 15 April 200310 February 2008
2Yusof Jantan [12] [13] 11 February 200831 December 2010
3Zainal Abu [14]
1st term
1 January 201131 December 2014
4Zainal Hussin [15] 1 January 201531 May 2018
5Azmi Hussain [16] 1 June 201831 January 2019
6Mansor Sudin [17] 1 February 201931 March 2020
7Zainal Abu [18]
2nd term
1 April 202031 January 2023
8Shadan Othman1 February 2023Incumbent

See also

Notes

  1. The state government uses the Malay language spelling of the state's name, as opposed to the more traditional English language spelling of its name, "Malacca".

References

  1. P. Selvarani (16 April 1989). "Malacca comes of age". New Straits Times.
  2. "Function".
  3. "Malacca Municipality Reestablished". 20 September 1945.
  4. "Historical City of Malacca Municipal Council website". Archived from the original on 30 May 2001.
  5. Syed Nadzri and Naslan Baharom (16 April 1992). "An extremist Government will only create problems, says Dr M". New Straits Times . Retrieved 27 July 2025.
  6. "Background".
  7. Kamarul (21 September 2017). "MBMB & MPTHJ". Official Portal of Melaka Historic City Council (MBMB).
  8. "市厅大厦上白漆.俨如甲市"白宫"". 星洲日报[ Sin Chew Daily ] (in Chinese (Malaysia)). 28 February 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  9. "粉刷500建筑市厅大厦上白漆.甲州明年也有"白宫"". 星洲日报[ Sin Chew Daily ] (in Chinese (Malaysia)). 1 November 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  10. "New Area redistriction".
  11. "Ucapan Datuk Bandar". Archived from the original on 1 September 2005.
  12. "New Malacca mayor sworn-in". Archived from the original on 11 March 2022.
  13. "Know Our Mayor". Archived from the original on 11 July 2010.
  14. "Know our Mayor". Archived from the original on 29 August 2011.
  15. "Kerajaan Melaka rombak ketua jabatan, agensi berkuatkuasa 1 Januari". 16 December 2014.
  16. "Semua Projek MBMB dibeku". June 2018.
  17. "Mansor Sudin dilantik Datuk Bandar Melaka Bandaraya Bersejarah baharu". 17 January 2019.
  18. "Melaka Rombak Ketua Jabatan, agensi kerajaan". 2 April 2020.