BAGUIO CITY – President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. wants the city’s solid waste and water supply problems solved with the active involvement of concerned national government agencies with expertise on the such matters to ensure the ongoing robust growth of the country’s undisputed Summer Capital, a top Palace aide said here Tuesday afternoon.
Presidential Assistant for the Cordillera Assistant Secretary Antonio R. Tabora said that the President already issued a directive to concerned national government agencies to extend the necessary support to address the current solid waste and water supply problems of the city to contribute in sustaining its robust growth being one of the preferred tourist destinations in the country.
He claimed that the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Cordillera is coordinating the efforts of the national government agencies to bring to the city their respective expertise to formulate the necessary solutions to the city’s long standing problems to allow the city to continue thriving as one of the must see places in the country.
The Palace official underscored that the national expertise of concerned government agencies must already be tapped to ensure the crafting of the necessary programs, projects and initiatives leading towards solving the current solid waste and water supply problems of the city that has persisted over the past several decades and had been partly draining the resources of the city government instead of being used to enhance the delivery of basic services and implement high impact development projects.
At present, the city government is hauling daily more than one hundred tons of residual waste to the Urdaneta engineered sanitary landfill in Pangasinan while the Baguio Water District (BWD) is trying to work out the implementation of the long overdue bulk water supply project to generate additional water supply from nearby communities to provide the needed water to the rapidly increasing population.
Assistant Secretary Tabora asserted that the interventions to be provided by the concerned national government agencies will help in the crafting of the appropriate solutions to these problems in the next three years pursuant to the marching orders from the President.
According to him, the concerned national government agencies will be closely working with his office and the city government to start exploring how to implement the available solutions to the city’s issues and concerns that will contribute in further improving the quality of life of the people in the city.
Tabora served the city as punong barangay of Alfonso Tabora, vice mayor and two-term councilor before being appointed as a consultant of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CESA) and the National Commission on Senior Citizens before being appointed to his current position as Presidential Assistant for the Cordillera.
He assured that the Office of the Presidential Assistant on the Cordillera is doing its best to bring the services of concerned national government agencies closer to the people of the region to ensure that Cordillerans will not be left behind in availing of services that contribute in improving their lives during the term of President Marcos, Jr. By Dexter A. See
