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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Friday, January 20, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Seventy-six informal settler families were ordered to leave the site of the old slaughterhouse in Barangay 35.
The city government was planning to convert the site into a meat and dry goods processing center.
The City Legal Office issued the informal settlers a Notice to Vacate on Tuesday, Task Force Botagoy head Rex Juplo said.
Councilors have asked the City Administrator’s Office, through Mayor Evelio Leonardia, to form a committee that will undertake the conversion of the old slaughterhouse.
Informal settlers and the dog pound in the area will have to be removed, and the nearby river will have to be cleaned, said the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
They are “imminent threats to the health and safety of the residents,” it said.
A “workforce for livestock, beef and chicken food and dry goods processing center” must be created, too, the councilors said.
Councilor Bartolome Orola said the initiative will provide alternative livelihood for not only Barangay 35 residents but other constituents as well.
“These projects are anchored on the development policy of the present administration, which is to provide livelihood assistance and modern organizational and marketing framework to supplement current and future infrastructure,” Orola said./PN
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