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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – It’s P4.99 million, not P8 million.
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the city government corrected the reports released by some local dailies (except Panay News) and radio stations on the budget used to buy biodegradable waste shredding machines.
The inaccuracy was reported after sales officer Joel Telmoso of the RU Foundry and Machine Shop Corp. – the machine supplier – said the shredders cost P8 million.
But BAC secretary Gilda Lluisima said the city government disbursed only P4.99 million for the machines’ purchase.
“It was below the approved budget of P5 million,” said Lluisima.
Fourteen shredding machines were turned over to the city government on Aug. 29.
The machines will be used to shred biodegradable wastes that will be collected from barangays including subdivisions as the “no segregation, no collection” policy starts on Sept. 1.
In a meeting conducted by the Solid Waste Action Team (SWAT) yesterday, three barangays were chosen to host the shredding machines: Cabug, Pahanocoy and Alangilan.
One will be placed at the City Agriculture Office in Barangay Alijis, said Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran, SWAT head.
“We are still looking for barangays that will host the remaining 10 machines,” added Familiaran.
The meeting was attended by representatives of 61 barangays, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the RU Foundry and Machine Shop Corp., and the IPM-Construction Development Corp., the city’s garbage collection contractor./PN
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