Mandaue wants DPWH to coordinate with the city

CEBU, Philippines - Mandaue City Councilor Diosdado Suico, through a resolution, will ask Public Works and Highways (DPWH) regional director Ador Canlas to inform the city government about future projects it plans to implement.

Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes, during the Regional Development Council meeting at Cebu City hall last week, chided DPWH for lack of coordination with the city government.

Suico will ask Canlas “to make proper coordination with the city government, specifically with Mayor Cortes, before implementing a project.”

“We want to place all things in the proper perspective otherwise it will be a waste of people’s money and resources since it will not address the solution to the problem,” Suico said.

He said that due to the absence of coordination in the past, projects overlapped, wasting government resources and failing to address problems.

In a related development, Canlas, who has been more than a month in office, will send his technical personnel to sit down with the drainage committee of the city government to rectify the problems of the past.

City Planning Officer architect Florentino Nimor Jr. said the city and the agency will discuss, in particular, the controversial P30 million drainage project in barangay Subangdaku.

Earlier, Cortes wasn’t pleased when he learned that DPWH’s proposed drainage project in the barangay will not solve the flooding problem because the 36-inch in diameter culverts will be replaced with culverts of the same size.

Cortes wants 62-inch culverts to replace the old ones.