Beboy belies blocking Lucy’s project

Work goes on the rubberized track at the oval field of Ormoc Central School. Mayor Eric C. Codilla has denied he is blocking the project.

MAYOR Eric C. Codilla denied the accusation thrown by the opposition that he is blocking the ongoing project of Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez to develop a rubberized track at the oval field of Ormoc Central School. Work was halted a few days after the City Engineer’s Office (CEO) found a defect on the project design.

The mayor explained that the 4th Leyte Engineering District (Led) which implemented the project didn’t consider the provision of an access road inside the premises. Until work began, vehicles are free to run over the gravel track which will no longer be allowed if it gets rubberized.
 

This means that that part of the school would be off limits to vehicles which will pose a problem during emergencies as firetrucks won’t be able to enter. To remedy the problem, the CEO and 4th Led conducted a joint survey and redesigned the project to accomodate a seven-meter wide access road.
 

The project has since proceeded. “Way katuyan ang syudad pagpugong niana kay improvement man na nato,” Mayor Codilla said, addding that if his purpose was to obstruct, he would have waited for the project to be completed before ordering its redesign. “Maayo nang korehian daan,” he said.
 

Mayor Codilla has ordered 4th Led to secure first a permit from CEO for its projects after commiting a blunder at Liloan National High School where it constructed a six-classroom schoolhouse on a site reserved by the mayor for a two-storey 20-classroom building.