FOR Bedok resident Gabriel Sim, the town council is just another government agency that he has to pay fees to every month.
He appreciates the clean estate he lives in but beyond that, the 30- year-old IT project manager does not see what else town councils do for him.
He does not, for instance, realise that town councils are supposed to function as a form of local government and give residents more say in the estate they live in.
Read the full report in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
