City hall orders Decorp: Recall electric meter
FINAL SOLUTION
AFTER being spurned of her request to have an electric meter owned by the city government transferred, Mayor Belen Fernandez has taken a tougher stance on the issue by telling the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) to simply terminate the service contrct for the meter located at the premises of the former MC Adore Hotel.
The meter is being used by the Citystate Savings Bank without the city government’s permission notwithstanding the bank’s claim that it pays for the consumption registered in the meter.
While Decorp responded saying it is prepared to comply with the order, it still requested the mayor for a meeting to discuss the options in the execution of the order.
Fernandez sought the termination in a letter to the company dated Dec. 27, 2013.
This is the second letter of Fernandez to Decorp, the first was sent in last November seeking the transfer of the meter to the Malimgas Public Market for use of the baratillo for the fiesta celebration.
However, Decorp rejected that request and offered instead to provide temporary electric meter to service the baratillo area along Galvan Street as requested by the mayor.
Decorp’s legal officer, Randy Castillan, told The PUNCH that the request for a meeting is not a rejection of the order but to discuss the physical difficulties and possible legal ramifications in pulling out the meter since it is located and encased inside the MC Adore hotel building, now privately owned.
The city government has confirmed that the Citystate Savings Bank has also been operating without a business permit (since one of the requisites is a building permit which the city engineer’s office has not issued to this day).
Decorp said it too cannot grant any request to transfer the name of subscriber, from the city government to the bank, for the meter and account in the absence of a building permit.
City Administrator Farah Decano confirmed that Decorp is seeking a meeting but the mayor is abroad and will not be expected back until January 5.
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