SANGGUNIAN ASKED FOR GREEN LIGHT

THE Dagupan City administration asked the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) to concur with the filing of formal complaints before the Ombudsman against contractors of the past Lim administration who defaulted in their contracts, delivered sub-standard projects, or failed to complete projects on time.

City Legal Officer Aurora Valle appeared in a hearing conducted by the committee on laws, ordinances and judiciary headed by Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo on Thursday to seek the SP’s concurrence in the planned filing of suits against these contractors.

Valle cited the contractor of the Malimgas Public Market who left the project unfinished. When Mayor Belen Fernandez ran after the contractor, who was also awarded the contract for the seemingly sub-standard concreting of Zamora Street affected by serious scaling, she found out that the surety bond posted by the company is no longer available.

In a talk to newsmen last June 28, Fernandez enumerated several other questionable projects under the Lim administration that need to be looked into by the SP.

These include :

1. Two ghost motorboats from a boat maker in Barangay Pugaro, which were already fully paid but still undelivered, although documents were made to appear that these were already delivered;
2. The P15 million substandard CCTV cameras, only 30 percent of which were functional;
3. Sub-standard and overpriced Lenovo mini-computers purchased for students on distance learning;
4. The use of substandard materials for perimeter fence of the Pugaro Integrated School;
5. Food worth millions of pesos that was made to appear it benefited thousands of people in the barangays in just 15 days, assigned to just one food constructor.
6. Several old and sub-standard motor boats,
7. A flood gate and pumping out station built near Rizal Street that remains non-functional.

Fernandez told newsmen that she was unable to ask the previous SP to look into these contractors because the council was then controlled by seven majority councilors allied with the former mayor. (Leonardo Micua) 

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