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Bohol
Gov. Erico Aumentado poured P251.72 million in local funds
for different infrastructure projects across the province
now already bid out, ongoing or ready for inauguration.
The
projects and their respective amounts are broken down into
concreting, asphalting and regravelling of major provincial
roads, P111.273 million; maintenance of primary, secondary
and tertiary roads, with road signs and load limit signs,
P29.2 million; regravelling, etc. from Bohol's share of the
Motor Vehicles Users Charge (MVUC), P9.12 million; soil stabilization,
P9.42 million; President's Bridge Program, P28.6 million;
provincial public building projects, P59.11 million and other
projects, P4.98 million.
With
these provincial funds released - the biggest appropriation
in the history of the provincial government, Aumentado appealed
to the mayors and other local government officials and civil
society as well to monitor the projects in their respective
areas of responsibility to ensure transparency and accountability.
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Of
the total, around 95 percent is from the provincial
coffers; the remaining five percent comes from counterpart
funds like those from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
and Education Secretary Jesli Lapus, among others.
"As
such, I thank the Sangguniang Panlalawigan headed by
Vice Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera - my partner in progress
- for the appropriation," the governor said.
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ROADS
In
allocating funds for the roads, Aumentado had them classified
into primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary roads are inter-town
roads, those with heavy vehicle traffic and those leading
to tourism destinations. Secondary roads have lesser volume
of traffic while tertiary roads are those maintained by the
barangays through contracts with the province.
Under
road improvement, concreting took up the bulk of the amount
at P79.173 million, followed by asphalting at P10.9 million
and construction or regravelling, P9.2 million or a total
of P99.273 million.
The
concreting projects, their amounts and contractors are: Poblacion
Ubay-Tapal Wharf Road, P12 million; Catigbian-Sagbayan Road,
Catigbian section, YS Construction, Calape-Pangangan Road,
BNYU Construction; Antequera-San Isidro Road, San Isidro Section,
YU Construction; Bien Unido-Trinidad Road, Bien Unido section,
Herbert Malmis Construction; Mahayag-Danao Road, Mahayag section,
R.C. Tagala Construction;
Sagbayan-Danao Road, Danao Section, Y.S. Construction; Candijay-Mabini
Road, Candijay Section, PLABB Construction; Valencia-Anonang
Road, Poblacion section, CCM Construction; Poblacion (Jagna)-Lonoy
Road, Poblacion section, Al Chris Construction; Junction Tagbilaran
East Road (TER) Guindulman-Anda Road leading to the Anda Peninsula
Tourist Destination all at P6.5 million each;
Poblacion,
Batuan-Macapico Road, Poblacion section, P4.5 million, A.S.
Obquia Construction; Liloan, Cortes Road, P.773 million by
administration; One Way Traffic Road in Maribojoc, P2.9 million,
Al Chris Construction; Candijay-Mabini Road, Mabini section,
P6 million, CCM Construction;
The
asphalting projects include the Tinago-Dao Road in Dauis,
P5 million, Poblacion -Doljo Road in Panglao, P3.9 million;
and the Poblacion-San Isidro-Balintawak Road in Talibon, San
Isidro-Poblacion section, P2 million, all by LUYM Construction.
The
regravelling projects include the rehabilitation of the Getafe-Tomoc,
San Miguel Road via Cagawasan, P6.2 million, S & CU Construction
and the construction of the road to Taytay, Duero, P3 million,
Silliman Avenue Construction. Aumentado dubs the latter as
part of the Eskaya Highway.
Road
maintenance consists of regravelling, soil stabilization,
pavement markings, ditching and vegetation control. The amount
for primary roads is P13.5 million; secondary roads, P9.2
million and tertiary roads, P4.55 million. Road signs and
load limit signs call for another P1,95 million for the total
of P29.2 million.
BRIDGES,
BUILDINGS, TOO
Set
for inauguration on March 15 are three modular steel bridges
constructed under the Austrian Government-assisted President's
Bridge Program (PBP). These include the 20-linear meter Tangkigan
Bridge in Mabini and the 20-ln.m. Riverside Bridge in Bilar
at P9.7 million each and the 25-ln.m. Cabungaan Bridge in
Jagna, P9.2 million.
Helmut
Wuzela of the contractor Wagner Biro has confirmed his attendance
to the series of inaugurations -Riverside at 8 a.m.; Cabungaan
at 11:30 a.m. and Tangkigan at 4:30 p.m.
The
public buildings projects include the Bohol Diagnostic Center,
P20 million, ZMX Construction; construction of 34 two-classroom
buildings, P20.4 million, three by BNYU, sic by RC Tagala,
seven by Ricomar Construction and 18 still for bidding; expansion
o0f the Garcia Memorial Provincial Hospital in Talibon, P10
million, YS Construction;
Reconstruction of the Talibon and Corella public markets,
P2 million each; Maribojoc Cultural Center, P1 million, by
administration; Bohol Drug Testing Center, P0.75 million;
cultural centers of Duero by the Duero LGU; Sagbayan, YS Construction;
Sevilla by the Sevilla LGU and Lila, by administration, P0.5
million each;
Construction
of pharmacy and rehabilitation of the Ancillary Building of
the Cong. Simeon G. Toribio Memorial Hospital in Carmen, P0.399
million; construction of one classroom for the Biabas Elementary
School, P0.3 million; and installation of roof insulator for
the Talibon Cultural Center, P0.265 million. Projects with
no contractor indicated are for bidding yet.
Other
projects are the construction of waster water treatment facility
at the Provincial Capitol compound and the development of
the CPG Park in Tagbilaran, P2 million each, both up for bidding;
construction of water reservoir and filtration tank and rehabilitation
of pipelines at the Cong. Natalio Castillo Memorial Hospital
in Loon, P6.8 million, by administration, and the Rosario,
Cortes Water Supply, P0.3 million, by administration.
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