ANGELES CITY – Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting yesterday expressed alarm over the failure of the city government to pay its dues amounting to some P65 million to the sanitary landfill in Capas, Tarlac.
Cabigting said the failure of Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno to settle the obligations on June 8, the deadline set by the landfill management, “would mean a stinking city filled with waste and garbage.”
But City Administrator Mark Allen Sison pinpointed the delay of the arrival of the internal revenue allotment (IRA) as the reason for the delay of payments to the Metro Clark Waste Management Corporation (MCWMC).
“Angeles and other cities in the country do not get the IRA on time causing the delay in the payment of obligations,” said Sison. He added that they will pay their obligations to the MCWMC “early next week.”
MCWMC President Armando Garcia, in a letter to Nepomuceno dated June 1, said “we have had several meetings with Sison and your city officials for the early settlement of this ballooning account… Unfortunately, the expected quick action from the city government remains unrealized putting our company in serious financial jeopardy and limiting our operational capability.”
“Instead of totally stopping our services to the city, from accepting 100 tons per day we limited it to 40 tons per day in the hope that the city can speed up its action to settle its overdue accounts. But our goodwill has not been reciprocated with a serious and expeditious action on your part,” said Garcia.
“In view of this, we wish to formally advice the city government of Angeles, that effective June 8, 2009, we shall no longer haul or receive any waste coming from the City of Angeles,” his letter added.
Sison disclosed that they are facing a new dilemma aside from the threat of MCWMC.
He said that garbage trucks from this city and Baguio had been blocked by people of Capas Mayor Rey Catacutan on the way to the landfill.
Sison said Catacutan had objected to the plan of the MCWMC to add more areas to the five-hectare sanitary landfill. He added that the agreement between the Capas government and MCWMC set only five hectares for their landfill.
Cabigting said the failure of Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno to settle the obligations on June 8, the deadline set by the landfill management, “would mean a stinking city filled with waste and garbage.”
But City Administrator Mark Allen Sison pinpointed the delay of the arrival of the internal revenue allotment (IRA) as the reason for the delay of payments to the Metro Clark Waste Management Corporation (MCWMC).
“Angeles and other cities in the country do not get the IRA on time causing the delay in the payment of obligations,” said Sison. He added that they will pay their obligations to the MCWMC “early next week.”
MCWMC President Armando Garcia, in a letter to Nepomuceno dated June 1, said “we have had several meetings with Sison and your city officials for the early settlement of this ballooning account… Unfortunately, the expected quick action from the city government remains unrealized putting our company in serious financial jeopardy and limiting our operational capability.”
“Instead of totally stopping our services to the city, from accepting 100 tons per day we limited it to 40 tons per day in the hope that the city can speed up its action to settle its overdue accounts. But our goodwill has not been reciprocated with a serious and expeditious action on your part,” said Garcia.
“In view of this, we wish to formally advice the city government of Angeles, that effective June 8, 2009, we shall no longer haul or receive any waste coming from the City of Angeles,” his letter added.
Sison disclosed that they are facing a new dilemma aside from the threat of MCWMC.
He said that garbage trucks from this city and Baguio had been blocked by people of Capas Mayor Rey Catacutan on the way to the landfill.
Sison said Catacutan had objected to the plan of the MCWMC to add more areas to the five-hectare sanitary landfill. He added that the agreement between the Capas government and MCWMC set only five hectares for their landfill.
