ILOILO City Mayor Jose Espinosa III set conditions for the municipality of Leganes to dump its waste on the sanitary landfill located at the Barangay Calajunan in the district of Mandurriao.
Conditions that Espinosa enumerated in which the town needed to comply includes the payment, amount, schedules of the operation and also the proper segregation of the wastes.
As part of the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Economic Development Council (MIGEDC), Espinosa might permit the town to dump their wastes in the city depending on their “talk” with the local government unit (LGU) of the Leganes town.
Espinosa will issue an executive order after both will concur to an agreement of the details and new schemes between the city and Leganes in accordance to the action to be taken.
He said that other towns are also allowed to dump their wastes in the city as long as they are members of MIGEDC.
Created through the Executive Order No. 559 penned by the former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, MIGEDC is a merged council of Metropolitan Iloilo Development Council (MIDC) and Guimaras-Iloilo City Alliance (GICA) that were established on 2001 and 2005, respectively.
MIDC is a collaboration that focuses on six areas namely: Basic Services Delivery, Environmental Management, Public Safety and Security, Land Use Management, Infrastructure Development and Economic Promotion and Development while GICA has special focus on tourism and infrastructure development with special focus on road and port systems improvements.
The areas involved with the merged council were the towns of Pavia, Oton, Leganes, Santa Barbara, Cabatuan, San Miguel and the municipalities of Jordan, Buenavista, Nueva Valencia, San Lorenzo and Sibunag from the province of Guimaras.
In connection, the Iloilo City Council previously passed a resolution penned by Councilor R Leone Gerochi which authorized Espinosa to sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the LGU of Leganes allowing to dump its wastes in the city.
Espinosa stressed that the actions taken is mainly to help the town since city have facilities to cover the problem.
“There’s nothing wrong with it and, so long as we will manage it accordingly and we also have agreements,” he added. (Carolyn Jane Abello)