By Jeremy Au Yong

TAMPINES scored top marks for its lifts, but needs to improve in other areas before next year's report card on Housing Board estates.

The Tampines Town Council gave residents a peek at its preliminary results at a town hall forum on Sunday, in a bid to get residents more involved in the running of the estate and boost its grades by the time the final Town Council Management Report is released.

The nationwide benchmarking exercise of all town councils, which manage 900,000 HDB flats, began on October 1.

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