TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Based on records from the City Engineering Office, around Php 18.1 million from the city’s development budget and LDDRM fund was spent on road concreting in Laya West, while Php 9.2 million was spent on rechanneling the Chico River (Laya West section) to mitigate flooding in the barangay.
Barangay Secretary Leopoldo Redolledo said that with the completed and ongoing road concreting projects, the barangays access road that connects almost all of the purok in the barangay will be completed during Mayor Darwin Estrañero’s term. Php 30 million worth of road concreting projects and completion of the barangay’s multi-purpose hall worth Php 1.3 million is ongoing and set to be completed by June this year.
“Bassit langen ti haan pay nasemento, ti kuna ni mayor ken dagitoy barangay officials, nu umay nga tawen improvement of road tu manen ti ma-prioritize tapnu malpasen ti concreting,” he said.
He added that Estrañero’s focus on road concreting eased the transport of their farm products and greatly improved their response to calamities, criminality, and other emergencies. “Idi nataltag daytuy kalsada, nu adda krimen kas-anu ka makaresponde nga napaspas ket basaw-basaw ti kalsada,” he said.
Estrañero has prioritized the concreting of roads as a long-term solution to provide access and bring development to barangays saying that short-term projects like graveling waste the city’s resources that are better used to fund the city’s social services. By Jayson Antonio