TACLOBAN CITY – Some members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Tacloban expressed their uncertainty over the report that a water distributor based in Cebu is planning to provide water services for the water concessionaires of the city particularly those who are residing at the northern part of the city.
In the weekly press conference at the Sangguniang Panlungsod session hall, sponsored by members of the opposition bloc, City Vice-Mayor Arvin Antoni and Councilor Neil Glova said that there is a possibility that the project will not pursue.
Cited by the two city officials is the Memorandum of Understanding that the city government represented by Mayor Alfred Romualdez and management of Mactan Rock Industry Incorporated had entered into.
According to Vice-Mayor Antoni, based on the MOU of the two party which was approved and ratified by members of the city council last December 2010, the company after the ordinance was ratified will have six months to submit the result of their study to the city council.
If the company failed to submit the result of their study and research within six months, the MOU, according to Antoni, is considered as null and void.
“There is no more MOU if it lapses six months based on the signed agreement” Antoni stressed.
“Since December of last year, it is already over six months, and granting that the MOU was signed in the month of February it is still over six months as prescribed and mandated in the ratified MOU,” explained Antoni.
Earlier this week, the city government represented by its former city administrator Bobby Moñus and officials of Mactan Rock Industry Incorporated headed by it President and CEO Lito Maderazo and legal counsel Attorney Alan Gaviola announces that the water company will be operating in the city this after their company had already finished their study on possible source of water for distribution.
The officials of the water company said that their source will be the Tigbao river, ground water and rain catching.
Around P100 million is their initial cost for putting-up the facility and targeting last quarter of next year for their full operation.
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