ANGELES CITY – A mysterious envelop containing P180,000 in cash which fell from under a desk at city hall here has been turned over to the city treasury amid lack of any claimant.
“I think we have given the owner of that cash enough time to claim it. I even went on radio to announce the mysterious find but there was no one who surfaced to say it belonged to him or her,” Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan said in a press briefing here.
The brown envelop, which was apparently taped to the underside of a table in the office of the former city administrator, fell off as the table was being lifted by workers cleaning the room. When opened, it was found to contain P180,000 cash.
“I have already turned over the cash to the city treasury to be used for our projects,” Pamintuan said.
A source from the city hall who asked not to be named said the envelop contained some handwritten numeric computations which employees identified with a former official during the term of former Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno.
Pamintuan defeated Nepomuceno in the May 2010 elections by 30,000 votes amid a bankrupt city government.
The mayor reported yesterday, however, that the city economy has already been fully revived.
“Our daily cash balance has never gone below P 100 million despite the inherited debt of P 17 million in electric bills alone,” he said.
He reported that apart from pushing revenue- raising programs, the local economy’s health was also been boosted by trimming down excesses in city hall’ s “job order” workforce, mostly ghost employees, by about 65 percent.
Noting the daily cash balance of no less than P 100 million, the city government now has a cash position of P 297 million, he added.
