Bacolod Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr. yesterday said the management of Gaisano is open to the proposal of providing an area for a jeepney terminal on their property along Gatuslao Street, Bacolod City and to accommodate the fish vendors in Bonifacio Street.

Gamboa said he met with the management of Gaisano last week to discuss the idea. He also proposed if they could accommodate the money changers along Ballesteros Street, he said.

The Gaisano management agreed to include the proposal in their plans and they will also construct a building in their 1.1-hectare property on October, he added.

Gamboa said the closure of Bonifacio Street on experimental basis is supposed to end on March 15 but they are proposing a win-win solution for both the vendors and the businessmen along the area.

The Astral Inc. and the tenants occupying its building at Bonifacio Street had earlier asked the city not to extend Resolution 49 pertaining to the closure of the street to accommodate fish vendors from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. everyday.

Gamboa said he is communicating with the lawyers of the affected businessmen. They will try to extend the road for the businesmen to have easier access and have parking spaces along Bonifacio Street, he said.

“I hope the businessmen will reconsider and allow the vendors to continue selling in Bonifacio Street,” he added.

Meanwhile, Gamboa said the vendors along Narra Street informed him that they will voluntary vacate the area by March 31.

The Kumpel Construction will provide each family financial assistance of P1,000 and provide work for their husbands, he said.

Villamonte Brgy. Captain Andre Victor Las Piñas is  also willing to accommodate some of the vendors in their market in Villamonte, Gamboa said. He is glad that the private sector and the barangay officials are helping out the city with its problems concerning illegal structures, he said.    

On the other hand, the Living Way Apostolic Church has provided hazard insurance coverage to 100 traffic enforcers in Bacolod City, Gamboa said.

The church, headed by Pastor Efren Agtoto as chairman and Pastor Errol Granada as vice chairman, earlier donated 150 pairs of raincoats and boots for the traffic enforcers of Bacolod, he said.

The city has only 110 Traffic Enforcers and 30 are regular employees, 28 are job order casuals while the rest are casual employees, Gamboa said.  

Volunteer traffic enforcer Ike Cualbar, who returned the pouch of a Bacolod resident, has been given a casual position for setting a good example, Gamboa said.*CGS

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