The Cebu Provincial Development Council (PDC) has approved the proposed P672-million annual investment plan (AIP) for 2007, a huge chunk of which goes to road improvement.
The provincial government has alloted some P300 million for infrastructure. For next year, it would set aside some P20 million as financial support for the Malapascua Island Eco-Tourism Plan.
Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said the P300 million for road projects was part of her campaign promise of asphalting 400 of the 544 kilometers of provincial roads in three years.
If the 400 kilometers is divided in three years, she said the province will have to asphalt an average of 133 kilometers a year.
Garcia said a P300 million allocation last year was estimated to asphalt 157 kilometers based on prices in that year.
But the province has completed asphalting 67 kilometers because contractors have difficulty coping with the number of projects they have to work on in the province, she said.
Cherry Ballescas, chairperson of the non-government group Partnership for Progressive Cebu that sits as a PDC member, said the NGOs did not endorse its approval because they want the details on where the money will be spent, and what happened to the funds allocated for this year.
In her reaction, Garcia ordered the Provincial Accounting Office to make a “centavo-by-centavo accounting and full report” of Capitol projects, including materials and labor costs per project. She also tasked the Provincial Budget Office to specify what amount has already been set aside for what. (PNA)
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