Philippine Information Agency, 30 January 2013
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Jan.30 (PIA6) — The Economic Development Committee of the Regional Development Council (RDC) of Western Visayas endorsed recently the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Project of Talisay City.
The project, dubbed “Talisay City Plaza Complex Heritage Restoration and Redevelopment Project”, is the pilot project of a local government unit of the PPP Center of the Philippines on urban renewal. It is also one of the 16 big-ticket projects to be rolled out this year under the President’s flagship PPP program.
In the plan, no current public market vendor will be displaced.
A series of public hearings and consultations were also conducted by the local government unit of Talisay and the stakeholders affected and involved.
The special meeting was presided by Committee Chair Dominic P. Abad, Regional Director of the Department of Trade and Industry-Region VI and was attended by Dir. Alfonso B. Bedonia of the Department of Budget and Management-Region VI and other members of the committee from both the public and private sector.
Talisay City Mayor Doc Eric M. Saratan and Geraldine M. Santos, a Project Manager of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center of the Philippines presented the concept of the project to the committee.(JCM/EAD-PIA6/Talisay Negros Occidental)
