Bacolod Councilor Alex Paglumotan yesterday said the Mayor will inspect the slaughterhouse in Barangay Handumanan, Bacolod City this week.

Paglumotan, chairman of the Committee on Markets and Slaughterhouse, said he and Councilor Celia Flor are also considering the review of the memorandum of agreement entered into by the city with AVM Bernardo Engineering, to see if the contractor has complied with its provisions. He said AVM Bernardo only installed their equipment in the slaughterhouse recently.

The contract for the completion and operation of the Bacolod City Slaughterhouse in Brgy. Handumanan was signed in February 2007 by Mayor Evelio Leonardia and engineer Antonio Valeriano Bernardo, representing the city and the AVM Bernardo, respectively.

Based on the MOA, AVM Bernardo, which is investing P54 million in the slaughterhouse, will complete the construction, rehabilitation and installation of equipment within 10 months but not to exceed 12 months from receipt of the notice to proceed.

It will rehabilitate the project in the nature of a Build-Operate-Transfer scheme.

The project will be operated as a double-A slaughterhouse by the private contractor who shall turn over its operation to the city after 20 years.

On the first year of operation of the slaughterhouse, the city is expected to earn P3.2 million in regulatory fees aside from the rental payment of AVM Bernardo.

For some time now, the city has been losing about P6 million a year in the operation of the present slaughterhouse in Brgy. 35, since the regulatory fees it is presently charging the meat vendors was established in 1974 yet and had never been upgraded.*CGS

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