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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – Can the old slaughterhouse in Barangay 35 be turned into a meat and dry goods processing center?
The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) asked Mayor Evelio Leonardia to create a body that will study the possibility of converting the facility.
The City Administrator’s Office, which is under Leonardia, shall create the committee that will undertake the study, the SP said in a resolution.
According to the councilors, the study shall consider the relocation/removal of informal settlers and the dog pound, the cleanup of the river, and the creation of a workforce for the food processing center.
Councilor Bartolome Orola, author of the resolution, said converting the facility will lead to “windows of opportunities,” including alternative livelihood programs for the locals.
Aside from being a venue for meat processing trainings, the facility may also be used as industry research center, he said.
Orola said the proposal is “anchored on the development policy of the present administration, which is to provide livelihood assistance and modern organizational and marketing framework to supplement current and future infrastructure.”
Creating the workforce that will manage the proposed center will “[affirm] the government’s recognition of labor as a primary economic force,” he said./PN
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