CDO failure to implement ordinance slammed
Image from Bebot Rodriguez Facebook page
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — The reelected vice mayor in this city criticized on Friday the failure of the City Local Environment and Natural Resources Office (Clenro) to fully implement the “no segregation, no collection” policy ordinance as provided in RA 9003.
Vice Mayor Jocelyn “Bebot” Rodriguez, in a statement after a meeting in the city council, said that failure to implement the solid waste management in the barangay level has greatly contributed to the worsening garbage collection problem in the city.
“The implementation of solid management was a failure,” she said.
She issued the statement as the city government has extended the garbage collection contract of Tencil Environmental Management for 90 days.
Tencil Environmental Management — a joint venture under Jomara Konstrukt Corporation and Tencil Construction Inc. — was recently granted a three-month extension to its multimillion-peso garbage collection contract.
The extension, dated 14 May, allows Tencil to continue with the “collection, hauling and disposal of municipal solid waste including street sweeping” in the city. The original contract expires on 24 May.
The contract, originally signed on 24 March 2023, was extended under PR No. 24-0180 and SN 55a-2024, covering a projected P67,597,128.11 at a unit cost not to exceed P600 per cubic meter.
The extension was issued under the authority of Republic Act 9184 and the 2016 Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations governing procurement and service renewals and signed by Mayor Rolando “Klarex” Uy.
Earlier this month Clenro manager Armen Cuenca announced that his office is preparing to issue a “notice of violation” for at least 78 barangays not complying with “No Segregation, No Collection Policy” as provided in RA 9003 ug Solid Waste Management (SWM) ordinance of the city.
He said barangay officials who will be given the notice of violation will have to explain to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Environmental Management Bureau, and the Department of the Interior and Local Government for their failure to implement the policy.