FIRM TAKES OVER GARBAGE TASK

City’s contract with private transfer station in Barangay Inayawan ends; Pamocor starts 30-day service

Pasajero Motors Corp. (Pamocor) has started hauling the garbage in Cebu City from the private transfer station in Barangay Inayawan after the contract of the City Government for the disposal of the waste ended last week.

Bids and Awards Committee Chairman Ronald Malacora said the P40-million contract to haul the garbage of the city in the next 30 days was served to Pamocor yesterday.

Department of Public Services (DPS) Assistant Department Head John Paul Gelasque said that around 8,000 tons of garbage were at the transfer station since Wednesday last week until yesterday.

“Although our contract with the other service provider has ended, our collection continued and all the garbage collected in the barangays were stored at the transfer station since Pamocor will still use the facility,” he told SunStar Cebu.

As of yesterday afternoon, Gelasque said Pamocor started hauling garbage, which will be disposed in a private landfill in Consolacion.

Meanwhile, Mayor Tomas Osmeña said he will include a P40-million allocation, which will be used to lease trucks, in his first supplemental budget this year.

“We will switch to the leasing mode. The truck has to be running or we will not pay them,” he said.

Instead of buying new trucks, Osmeña wants to rent trucks since the City will no longer be paying for the salary of the drivers and the maintenance of the vehicles.

The mayor would have wanted to start the leasing of trucks as the year started, but the budget intended for it under the annual budget this year was cut. /