Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado expressed elation over Tagbilaran City's proposals to provide long-term solutions to its road maintenance, wastewater and solid waste disposal problems.
Aumentado said being the capital and the entry point of majority of tourists and visitors, Tagbilaran is the province's show window.
"It is fitting and proper that Tagbilaran City always showcases its best form - not for tourists and visitors alone but more importantly, for the general welfare of its populace," said the governor who is also a city resident.
Aumentado's reaction came after Mayor Dan Lim submitted projects, supported with resolutions from the City Council and the City Development Council, to the Provincial Development Council (PDC) worth an aggregate of P839,005,000. The governor chairs the PDC.
The city projects, already endorsed by the PDC to the Central Visayas Regional Development Council (RDC), include a long-term road improvement project eyed to concrete pave a total length of 17.267 kilometers of city streets costing P259,005,000; a centralized waste water treatment facility worth P150,000 and an integrated solid waste management facility costing P430,000,000.
In its proposals, the city intends to finance the projects with the proceeds of a loan it is now negotiating for with the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP).
Aumentado said the city is on the right track in deciding to push for concrete-paved streets. The governor who caused the concreting of the Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement Project Phases 1 and 2 and an upcoming Phase 3 on top of the Loay Interior and other roads admits he has a bias for concrete over asphalt roads.
Concrete roads cost only a little more than asphalt roads but are more cost-efficient in the long run because they require less maintenance, he explained.
He also lauded the city's think tanks for deciding to construct a centralized wastewater treatment facility in Barangay Taloto as this complies with the Clean Water Act.
Aumentado has always been concerned that without such facility, storm water andsewage seep into the existing drainage network that empties into seawaters, causing pollution and contamination that will adversely affect marine life and ultimately - human lives as well.
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