Council OKs P66.5M supplemental budget
The P66.5-million second supplemental budget for Cebu City’s operating expenses has been approved by the City Council.
Bulk of the budget or its miscellaneous fund for P47 million will be for the garbage collection account rental of heavy equipment this year. The savings are for the city’s garbage from the months of January collection program. to April.
Another P10 million Also, Councilor is set aside for additional Eugenio Gabuya Jr., council funding for the city chairman of the committee sponsored activities, while on public services, earlier P8.6 million is allotted for said the volume of garbage the monthly honorarium collected daily has decreased of Sangguniang Kabataan to 530 tons from 650 tons. (SK) councilors, secretaries He attributed the and treasurers. decrease to the strict
The city has also set enforcement of the city’s aside P832,458 to pay off segregation policy, which is the payables in prior years in compliance with Republic for the procurement of rice Act 9003 or the Solid Waste goods and the like. Management Act.
Prior to the budget’s Under the policy, city approval, some councilors residents are enjoined asked about the allocation for to segregate their trash the rental of heavy equipment based on whether it is from the months of September biodegradable, nonbiodegradable, to December this year. residual
The city government and special waste. is currently renting 21 Biodegradable wastes units of heavy equipment are collected on Mondays, from Pasajero Motors Wednesdays, Fridays and Corporation (Pamocor) Saturdays, while nonbiodegradable for its garbage hauling and residual operations at P678 each wastes are gathered on per hour. These include Tuesdays, Thursdays and 11 dump trucks and 10 Sundays. compactor trucks. The City Council has
The trucks are running asked DPS to submit recent 24 hours to collect the trash reports on the utilization of from the barangays. rented trucks and the daily
Bids and Awards volume of hauled garbage. Committee head Ronaldo On the other hand, the Malacora said BAC has yet council has requested the to schedule a public bidding executive department to for the heavy equipment’s submit guidelines on the rental for the last remaining distribution of monthly four months. honoraria to SK councilors,
In October 2017, secretaries and treasurers. the city government The P8.6 million decided to rent trucks approved budget for SK in order to improve the honorarium is intended garbage collection and to for the months of July to save money for trucks’ December this year. maintenance. Each official will get
Records showed that a monthly honorarium the city’s Department of P2,000 from the city of Public Services has government. saved P21 million under