BSL wants additional P14 M for garbage collection
DAGUPAN Mayor Benjamin Lim has appealed to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) to immediately act on the proposed P14-million supplemental budget for garbage collection and disposal.
Lim said the approved P4 million budget, or about P300,000 a month, of the waste management division for its maintenance and operating expenses in the 2011 budget is not enough to cover the city’s waste disposal costs.
The supplemental budget is intended for the purchase of additional equipment and the repair of old ones.
SANITARY LANDFILL
Lim, speaking at the KBP Forum Thursday, also reiterated his plan to pursue the planned sanitary landfill project in barangay Awai in San Jacinto town.
He said the project can be pursued in tandem with neighboring towns to become a district landfill and operated by a private company.
Lim, however, did not clarify how the city can possibly regain the lot in Awai, which the city government under his administration bought but later lost as the land was determined to have been appropriated for land reform even before the purchase.
Both the city administrator and the city legal office remained silent on the status of the acquired-and-lost property of the city in San Jacinto for the failed sanitary landfill.
WARNING
Meanwhile, Lim and other officials of many towns in the province have already been given warning notices for failing to meet the requirements of R. A. 9003, or the Solid Waste Management Act.
Under the law, local government units are supposed to close all open or controlled dumpsites. Local officials are liable for failure to implement.
Lim also wrote off the option of using the newly-opened landfill facility in Urdaneta City, saying the cost of disposing garbage there would be enough to build Dagupan’s own facility.
He explained that the city would spend about P320,000 a day for its 80 tons of garbage or about P100 million a year.
“Puede na tayong magpatayo ng sariling landfill nyan,” he said. (With report from PIA Pangasinan/DOS)
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