By Mortz C. Ortigoza
Because of the
almost P30 million saving last year on procurement of equipment, materials, and
services initiated by the mayor here, this coastal first class town had given a
P20,000 Christmas bonus to each of its regular employees.
Mayor Pete Merrera told Northern Watch Newspaper how the P320 per license tin plate business people purchase here every year is being sold by the local government unit (LGU) to each of them for a measly P150 only.
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| Binmaley Mayor Pete Merrera |
“Tingnan mo iyong ginawa mo noon e manipis e
nagtatalo sila. Manipis iyong binigay mo kung gagayahin ko ang sa iyo P150 sabi
niya,” he quoted how the two bidders from Manila argued during the bidding
of the plates here.
He cited how P3.8
million new dump truck appropriated by the Sangguniang Bayan (legislative body)
to be bought by the LGU was reduced to P3.3 million where the town
saved P500, 000.
Merrera told this
newspaper earlier that this town saved a lot financially under his leadership
compared to the time of his predecessor Mayor Sam Rosario – who is now this
town’s vice mayor.
“At least
malalaki ang natitipid ko. Kung sila ang gumagastos ng 900 ako gumagastos ng
200. Dapat matuwa sila,” he told Northern Watch Newspaper after he
unruffled some feathers on the camp of Rosario of his comparison with the two
administrations.
To solve soil and infrastructure problems here, the Mayor, a Civil Engineer,
reached out to his contractor-friends to lend him their heavy equipment gratis.
The actuation saves the treasury by P6,000 and P7,000 per hour for the
loader and grader, respectively.
Merrera negotiated
with Metro Urdaneta Waste Management Corporation –Urdaneta City for a P500 to
P600 per metric ton (pmt) service fee of the retrieval of the garbage here.
He said the
Rosario Administration was paying P850 pmt to dump the refuse of the people
here to Metro Clark Waste Management Corporation in Pampanga.
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