By JUNE S BLANCO
TRINIDAD town in Bohol , 98 kilometers northeast of Tagbilaran City , will soon have a new municipal building.
This after Gov. Erico Aumentado and Rep. Roberto Cajes of Bohol’s 2nd District committed to contribute funds to build a new town hall worth P6 million.
Using his trademark convergence strategy, Aumentado suggested a sharing scheme that Cajes readily accepted.
The governor committed P2 million from the provincial coffers while Cajes will put in P3 million from his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) as counterpart to the P1 million ready allocation of the town under Mayor Judith del Rosario-Cajes.
He announced his commitment and the sharing scheme to cover the cost of building the new town hall to the hundreds of Trinidadnons and visitors alike who trooped to the Lipata agro-fair area to witness the drum and lyre competition that was a highlight of the town’s 62nd founding anniversary recently.
The crowd filled the agri-fair grounds. Some even climbed up trees in the periphery to get a clear and unobstructed view of the drummers, lyrists’ and majorettes’ performance.
His announcement drew wild applause, especially that Aumentado said it was high time to build a bigger municipal hall as the town workers find no more elbow room, much more, space to look after the needs of their clients and the public that they serve.
Besides, he said, Trinidad has already completed its new market – an income-generating and therefore self-liquidating project, hence, the move to the next project: construction of the new town hall to replace the existing rickety one with a bullet-ridden façade that the townsfolk remember the infamous heydays of insurgency with.
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