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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Thursday, June 8, 2017
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BACOLOD City – “The city is willing to pay.”
This was City Legal Office (CLO) head Joselito Bayatan’s answer to a member of the Lopez family that owns the land in Barangay Felisa where the city government’s sanitary landfill is located.
In several interviews, Roy Lopez disclosed they were planning to close the landfill if the city government won’t settle its balance payment.
He said the family tried to reach out to the city government but has not received responses until now.
Bayatan said the city government is willing to pay the remaining balance to the lot owners. However, it cannot do so because of the Commission on Audit’s (COA) notice of disallowance.
The CLO head clarified that the city government will entertain any member of the Lopez family who would want to discuss the matter.
The city is still waiting for the response of COA Region 6 on their appeal to look into the city’s valuation of the lot, he added.
On July 8, 2008, the Deed of Conditional Sale was entered and executed between Dynasty Agricultural Corp. and the City of Bacolod.
Part of the condition stated that the vendor offered to sell to the vendee and even threatened to close the existing dumpsite if the city will not acquire a portion of the parcels of land for its solid waste disposal facility.
But on June 5, 2008, the City Appraisal Committee issued Resolution No. 06 series of 2008 recommending the appraised value to P360 per square meter.
The property owner agreed to sell the property to the city in the agreed amount of P340 per square meter, manifesting that the reduction from the original demand of P600 per square meter is their “generous” contribution to the city in its quest to comply with the mandatory provision of law on solid waste management.
The complaint also cited that the contract price per Bacolod City Appraisal Committee is P23.8 million, but the contract price per COA appraised valuation is P18,323,719.05. The amount disallowed by COA is P5,476,280.95./PN
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