Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato has announced that Hout Bay ward councillor Rob Quintas will be the City of Cape Town's new mayoral committee (mayco) member for transport.

Plato made the announcement on Thursday during a council meeting.

The post was left vacant after former mayco member Felicity Purchase was appointed as the council speaker.

Plato himself had filled the vacant post in the interim.

"It gives me great pleasure to announce that councillor Rob Quintas has officially been appointed as mayoral committee member of transport. Quintas is the ward councillor for Hout Bay and has also served on the Environmental and Spatial Planning Committee, which allowed him to get a high-level view of the transport environment in the City of Cape Town," Plato said.

Plato added that the city speaker had acknowledged Quintas as councillor of the year in 2019.

"As ward councillor for Hout Bay, Quintas has served this community with care and diligence over the years and will continue to be available to the residents of Imizamo Yethu, Hangberg, Llandudno and the Valley. I wish him well with his new portfolio," Plato said.

The city council is expected to table its 2021-'22 adjustments budget on Thursday. The primary reasons for the recommendation to adopt an August 2021 adjustments budget are the rollover of commitments from the 2020-'21 financial year and administrative transfers/virements of budgetary provisions.

"Section 28(2)(e) of the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) states that an adjustments budget may authorise the spending of funds that were unspent at the end of the past financial year where the underspending could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time to include projected rollovers when the annual budget for the current year was approved by the council," he said.

Plato used his opening council speech to urge residents to get vaccinated.

"I understand that some of our residents are scared of the vaccine and have read a lot of misinformation on social media, with stories on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp that tell them all kinds of horror stories. If these stories were really true, then ask yourself why millions of doctors and healthcare workers around the world have already had the jab," he said.