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BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
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ILOILO City – The Local Economic Enterprise Office (LEEO) of the city government is preparing a business plan t address its losses, according to its chief Ariel Castañeda.
The LEEO oversees the operations of the city’s slaughterhouse and public markets in Jaro, Mandurriao, City Proper, La Paz, and Arevalo districts. Its revenue target for 2017 is P75 million.
Since its creation, the LEEO has no business plan. “Employees are just grinding in reaching the quota (collections) set by the City Treasurer’s Office,” Castañeda told Panay News.
The business plan will focus on three aspects – finance, operation and human resource utilization.
“Ang finance pertains to the target collection. Sa operation may ara kita organizational discipline kag internal control system sa kada merkado kag market-in-charge,” added Castañeda.
LEEO’s target revenue for 2016 is P71 million. However, its estimated income this year is between P46 million to P48 million only, said Castañeda.
The public markets LEEO is supervising are the Iloilo Central Market, Iloilo Terminal Market, Jaro Big Market, Jaro Small Market, La Paz market, Mandurriao market, and Arevalo market.
Last week, the Sangguniang Panlungsod sought a breakdown of the markets’ revenues.
During the presentation for the 2017 proposed annual budget of the LEEO (P77.8 million), Councilor Eduardo Peñaredondo – chairperson of the SP committee on appropriations – noted that the projected incomes in five revenue areas were “below or negative compared to the 2016 income.” These five were:
* market rental – lower by P259,043
* market fees – lower by P2 million
* slaughterhouse operation – lower by P300,000
* permit fee – lower by P130, 000
* anti-mortem fee – P1 million.
Castañeda said the losses were mainly due to the slaughterhouse’s broken boilers.
The boiler machines have been dysfunctional since May 2015. The last time there was slaughtering of hogs was on Dec.29, 2015.
The boiler machines are where hogs are immersed in hot water for scalding before cleaning.
It was only this Nov.21 when the slaughterhouse started accepting hogs again. LEEO purchased two new boilers.
“With the new boilers, we are hopeful of reaching our target revenue for 2017,” said Castañeda./PN
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