MOA for seafood plant operations put on hold
THINGS are not looking too good for the Dagupan City Seafood Processing Plant.
The new Secretary of Agriculture, Proceso Alcala, has reportedly declined to sign the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) granting administrative control and supervision to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) .
City Agriculturist Emma Molina said Alcala has withheld action on the MOA because it was authorized by outgoing city officials. Former DA Secretary Bernie Fondevilla failed to sign the MOA before he stepped down.
Sangguniang Panlungsod Resolution No. 6510-2010 dated May 25, 2010, authorized former city mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. to designate the Department of Agriculture (DA)-BFAR to initially manage the facility for a period of five years when all policies and operational systems are expected to have been established and the plant would have achieved a self-reliant operation.
ELECTRIC BILL
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources recently forwarded to the city government an electric bill incurred in the operation of the facility, which has been renamed as Philippines-Korea Seafood Processing Complex for Dagupan City, amounting to P160,000.
Mayor Benjamin Lim expressed surprised why the city is being made to pay for the bill when the administration and supervision of the facility was supposed to be under the management of BFAR.
The payment has been put on hold.
On the hiring and training of personnel, Molina said the two batches of fifty trainees each are also still waiting to be asked to report for work.
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