By Jujemay G. Awit
Sunday, October 16, 2011
CEBU City’s Annual Investment Plan (AIP) for 2012 has earmarked P430 million for economic development. This is almost half the total amount of P880 million.
The difference will be divided between social development projects (P228 million) and environmental management (P221.9 million).
While the City contemplates the total closure of the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill, it intends to balance it with several infrastructure projects under environmental management.
A total of P11.5 million will be spent to build material recovery facilities (MRFs) and establish composting facilities, as well as implement composting, recycling and environmental sustainability programs in the city’s barangays.
Going greener
Another P2 million will be spent to build MRFs in 20 urban barangays.
The proposed AIP also earmarked P1 million to rehabilitated the drainage canal of the landfill.
The Department of Public Services also intends to reconstruct the sewage treatment plant at the North Reclamation Area.
The plant will process septic wastes that have also been banned from being dumped at the landfill, complementing the first closure of the landfill for unsegregated waste last April.
Over P5 million will be spent on waste-to-energy facilities to be installed in the MRFs of Barangays Luz, Talamban and Quiot as some related projects in pilot barangays in Cebu City.
Also under environmental management is financial assistance to the 10 largest barangays in the north and south districts, at P3 million each.
This is also complemented with P2 million each for the 20 barangays under economic development.
The remaining 60 barangays will also receive P3 million each as financial assistance.
Scrapped park
Among the listed projects under economic development is the construction of local roads, road concreting and asphalting in over 20 barangays.
The City Government will also help Barangays Punta Princesa, Inayawan and Pasil build markets.
Under the social development projects, the proposed AIP funded the construction of Pasil Park (P25 million) under rehabilitation of cultural and historical sites.
But when the City Council defunded the infrastructure projects under the second supplemental budget, the park was left with funding of just P1.
It was better news for the Cebu City Medical Center. Its dream of having a CT (computerized tomography) scan to improve services will finally be realized, as the Cebu Development Council appropriated P30 million for the machine under the AIP.
The AIP will be partly funded by the Local Development Fund, which represents 20 percent of the City’s internal revenue allotment (IRA).
Cebu City’s IRA this year is over a billion.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on October 16, 2011.
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