CEBU CITY – Local Mayor Edgardo Labella has launched a new cleanliness campaign here and offered a reward of up to P5 million worth of “clean and green” projects for each of the cleanest barangay.
Labella said barangay officials and residents who can maintain cleanliness of their streets and sustain garbage-free rivers and creeks will receive the reward from the local government in the form of “clean and green projects.” He said the amount would be on top of the P5 million he promised to the barangay chairmen and councilmen.
The hard-working mayor earlier gathered officials of the city’s 80 barangay and told them about the cleanliness campaign.
“The budget should be given immediately. That has been included in the 2019 budget. They will give us a resolution proposing their project that will be funded with the P5 million fund per barangay and another P5 million if they are found to be active in the city-wide cleanliness campaign,” Labella said, adding, the funds shall be subject to liquidation based on the existing state audit rules.
He said some barangays have proposed funding from the City Government for the purchase of garbage trucks, noting that most barangay are facing problems with garbage collection due to lack of trucks to haul and bring them to the sanitary landfill. He said barangay officials are responsible for the cleanliness and sanitation in their respective areas.
Labella led City Hall workers in a four-hour clean-up drive at the Guadalupe River recently where they collected some 70 metric tons of garbage. But he lamented that after the clean-up, some residents in Pasil village began throwing trash in the river and ordered Barangay chairman Julius Guioguio to apprehend and issue environmental citation tickets to residents who would continue to litter the river. (John Rey Saavedra)
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