TOTAL COLLECTIONS by the City Economic Enterprise (CEE) Department of the city government of Pagadian reach P12,665,310.78 for the first quarter. CEE officer Lucille Juros said the above figure comes from CEE’s four divisions composed of the City Market,
Slaughter House, Integrated Bus Terminal (IBT) and the City Fish Port. Of the mentioned divisions, the city market is a high raker with P7,487,162.20 although collected fees dipped to only one million plus beginning February from a P2,471,336.97 buena mano at the start of 2010.
Another earner is IBT with P1,983,529.30 postings for the 4-months period, steadily earning revenues of more than half-a-million pesos for the last two months after starting up with only P441,537.70 in January.
The City Fish Port in San Pedro is third, with P1,669,297.43 but its figures began dropping to only at P346,378.55 as of April, a big variance from its supposedly bright start of P494,307.45 takings in January.
Juros justifies the low take may have something to do with the gloomy fish catch by fishermen due to unfavorable weather.
To recall, both the fish port and IBT total collections were on an uptrend in 2009 as compared to the previous year.
As for the city abattoir, it only netted P1,525.241.85 for the first quarter. This is expected, Juros explained, as there has been a decrease in number of both hogs and cattle butchering attributed to other slaughtering activities done by meat shops, dealers and lechoneros outside the slaughter house.
In an earlier interview with Juros last January, she estimated an annual loss of P646,605.41 to such activities. It was not known, however, if the city did have an ordinance mandating all butchering practices to be done at the slaughter house.
The city abattoir collects fees in corral, slaughter, entrails, post mortem inspection and meat delivery van.
This paper once visited the butchering area located in Brgy. Napolan and found out that some equipment like hooks were lacking, there was no weighting scale for the hog section and only two meat inspectors do the daily rounds. For the record, an average of 952,987 kilos for cattle, 406,513 kilos for hogs, and 20,630 kilos for goats are butchered annually there.
The CEE, a self-liquidating office, sets aside two percent of its total collections as administrative share and use this to fund various expenditures like salaries for its regular and casual workers.
Before the end of this year, Mayor Samuel Co will unveil the city’s liquid nitrogen plant in Brgy. Danlugan and task the CEE of its entire operations. Total CEE collections for 2008, by the way, is P35,779.028.73, for 2009, its P33,690.496.65.
REPORT BY MICHAEL MEDINA
Slaughter House, Integrated Bus Terminal (IBT) and the City Fish Port. Of the mentioned divisions, the city market is a high raker with P7,487,162.20 although collected fees dipped to only one million plus beginning February from a P2,471,336.97 buena mano at the start of 2010.
Another earner is IBT with P1,983,529.30 postings for the 4-months period, steadily earning revenues of more than half-a-million pesos for the last two months after starting up with only P441,537.70 in January.
The City Fish Port in San Pedro is third, with P1,669,297.43 but its figures began dropping to only at P346,378.55 as of April, a big variance from its supposedly bright start of P494,307.45 takings in January.
Juros justifies the low take may have something to do with the gloomy fish catch by fishermen due to unfavorable weather.
To recall, both the fish port and IBT total collections were on an uptrend in 2009 as compared to the previous year.
As for the city abattoir, it only netted P1,525.241.85 for the first quarter. This is expected, Juros explained, as there has been a decrease in number of both hogs and cattle butchering attributed to other slaughtering activities done by meat shops, dealers and lechoneros outside the slaughter house.
In an earlier interview with Juros last January, she estimated an annual loss of P646,605.41 to such activities. It was not known, however, if the city did have an ordinance mandating all butchering practices to be done at the slaughter house.
The city abattoir collects fees in corral, slaughter, entrails, post mortem inspection and meat delivery van.
This paper once visited the butchering area located in Brgy. Napolan and found out that some equipment like hooks were lacking, there was no weighting scale for the hog section and only two meat inspectors do the daily rounds. For the record, an average of 952,987 kilos for cattle, 406,513 kilos for hogs, and 20,630 kilos for goats are butchered annually there.
The CEE, a self-liquidating office, sets aside two percent of its total collections as administrative share and use this to fund various expenditures like salaries for its regular and casual workers.
Before the end of this year, Mayor Samuel Co will unveil the city’s liquid nitrogen plant in Brgy. Danlugan and task the CEE of its entire operations. Total CEE collections for 2008, by the way, is P35,779.028.73, for 2009, its P33,690.496.65.
REPORT BY MICHAEL MEDINA