CEBU, Philippines - A Talisay City minority councilor was disappointed when the council yesterday turned down proposal to request the National Power Corporation (NPC) to donate its used office furniture to the city government.
"Nakig-estorya na ko sa ilang (NPC) property custodian, council resolution na lang gyud ang kinahanglan para mahatagan ta og mga office furniture ug equipment. Pero, di man sila ganahan sa idea kay makauwaw kuno," said Councilor Val Ylanan, a minority councilor who filed the subject resolution.
Councilor Dennis Basillote from the administration bloc said that by doing so it would appear that the council is begging from the NPC to donate the items, and it would be a shame to them.
And so Ylanan will refer his proposed resolution to the committee on Barangay Affairs chaired by Association of Barangay Councils president Charles Basillote.
The resolution would have to request Froiland Tampinco, NPC president, to donate used tables, chairs, and filing cabinets that Ylanan said have been filed in the NPC stockyard.
Ylanan, also a trader who has recently won in a bidding at the NPC, admitted that he has been in the NPC warehouses in the different parts of the country and has seen these items there.
He said when he asked his friends there he was told that the furniture is to be donated upon request to the local government units.
These should be useful to the city's 22 barangay halls which most of them lack such furniture, he said.
"Anugon gyud, resolution ra man ta ang kuwang," Ylanan said. – THE FREEMAN