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"The best birthday present I could ask for."
That's what the Mayor of Cebu, Tomas Osmeña, said after the Investment Coordinating Committee of the National Authority for Economic Development (Neda-ICC) approved the P16.3- Cebu Bus Rapid Transit Project (BRT)
Osmeña stated that the Neda-ICC decision, presided over by President Rodrigo Duterte, means that the latter rejected the recommendation of the presidential assistant Visayas Michael Dino Osmeña, who celebrated his birthday on July 26, said he is optimistic now that the project will go forward
Osmeña said that the BRT project is long overdue, being The implementation has been delayed for two years already.
"We are losing millions every month in interest charges because of a failure to implement.Even COA (Commission on Audit) has recommended that charges be laid," he writes in his post on Facebook
The World Bank approved in 2014 a financial envelope of about 7.36 billion pesos (141 million dollars) for the Cebu project.
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If delays had been avoided, for example when hiring a technical assistance consultant, the contract to build parcel 1 was to be signed last April. It covers the implementation of BRT in South Road Properties-Osmeña Blvd.
After Neda-ICC's approval, the city's administrator, Nigel Paul Villarete, said that they would now resume work on the project and process all the arrears.
Villarete stated that he had prepared a letter to the Department of Transport. aspects of the project that have been delayed so that the agency is properly guided.
Osmeña did not only receive a "gift" when he and his wife, Councilor Margarita Osmeña, celebrated their anniversaries last Friday at the Cebu City Waterfront Hotel and Casino.
As a birthday present for Osmeñas and a gift to more than 5000 occupants of lots 93-1, Governor of Cebu Hilario Davide III and Deputy Governor Agnes Magpale said that the Provincial Council approve next week a resolution authorizing Davide to conclude and sign on behalf of the provincial government the act of donation and acceptance of the land exchange agreement
Davide and Magpale were among the guests during Osmeñas
City Council has already approved a similar resolution on July 10th. The city government is only waiting for the province to finalize the exchange.
Mayor Osmeña welcomed the development, saying the finalization of the agreement is
"They have been waiting for so long. (The former Mayor Michael) Mike Rama has blocked it, (The former governor is now the Deputy Speaker of the House) Gwen (Garcia) has blocked it, we will not allow them to block it anymore.In 1965, the Council ratified en masse a protocol of 39, agreement on the land exchange agreement between the city and the province,
The province will give the city 32 hectares of lots spread over several barangays, occupied mainly by the urban poor. will also hand over 1.5 hectare in the complex of the Ministry of Agriculture on the street Mr. Velez, 2,358 square meters on Gorordo Ave. in Barangay Lahug, and 577 square meters on Don Gil Garcia Street, in the site of the Capitol of Barangay.
In return, the City offered the province a 2.5-hectare lot in the South Road Pro perties)
. to the province, a 3.3-hectare block behind SM City in Barangay Mabolo; a 2.5 hectare botanical garden behind SM Seaside in SRP; nine hectares in Barangay Pulpogan, Consolacion; the 1.37 hectare lot where the lot of the treatment plant is located; and the 2,476-square-meter land where the city's slaughterhouse is located
The agreement also included the return to Capitol of the possession and rights of the city over its zoo, a condition established by Province.
however, is still pending before the Trial Division of Regional Court of First Instance 9. RVC, RTF
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