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AFTER the successful demolition of the two skywalks along Osmeña Boulevard, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama has announced plans to remove all remaining skywalks within the city’s jurisdiction, one by one bspin Over Cebu City Hall’s online program “Ingna’ng Mayor” on Thursday, March 14, 2024, Rama said skywalks do not serve their purpose bspin Rama said skywalks became an interim drop-in center for some mendicants bspin He said skywalks also became public comfort rooms, living rooms, and living quarters bspin “Ang mga tawo, they cannot even watch what they will see if they are to watch bspin Ang problema sa uban mo watch sila pero dili kita,” Rama said bspin Rama said the skywalk in Day-as has one end connected to a sidewalk bspin In Banilad, one side of the skywalk ends on a sidewalk, while the other end leads to a jeepney parking lot bspin Additionally, some skywalks have one end connected to a sidewalk and the other end leading to establishments bspin He also noted that the skywalk in Escario is obstructing the sidewalk bspin He said skywalks should not obstruct the sidewalk or the roads bspin He said as a result of these issues, people no longer use the skywalks bspin He explained that skywalks would only be effective if equipped with elevators and escalators, but he also emphasized that the city no longer requires such structures bspin During the program, SunStar Cebu asked Rama what would replace the skywalks, particularly for the benefit of students bspin He suggested that tunnels or underground pedestrian crossings would be more effective, allowing people to cross streets underground, similar to practices observed worldwide bspin He said there are no skywalks in Melbourne, Australia and other countries bspin He said when he was in Boston, he was told to expose the sky, not create obstructions, deeming skywalks as obstructions bspin He said underground crossing pedestrians exist in Quiapo bspin In a follow-up phone interview on Thursday, Rama said that all skywalks have not served their purpose, considering why they were constructed and why the Office of the Building Officials (OBO) allowed them during those times bspin Asked regarding the target completion of the removal of all skywalks, Rama said not to worry much about it, saying they have already removed at least two along Osmeña Boulevard bspin Rama said he will be meeting OBO, the city engineering office, City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) to discuss the matter bspin The two skywalks along Osmeña Boulevard, one standing near Fuente Osmeña Circle and the other Cebu Normal University, were successfully removed last February 18 and February 25, 2024, respectively bspin The main slabs of the two skywalks were stored in the city’s engineering office junkyard in the South Road Properties, awaiting evaluation to determine their viability and structural integrity for potential repurposing bspin (AML) bspin

THE Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) will be having dialogues with various members of the business community to discuss the importance of the water rate adjustment, which will finally be implemented on April 1, 2024 bspin The rate adjustment will push through, according to Jose Daluz III, chairman of the MCWD board of directors bspin “At least we have one month to talk to them, explain to them bspin Manghangyo mi nga this is not something nga nag-increase mi bspin It is just an application of the prescribed rate of LWUA since 2010,” Daluz said in an interview on Monday, Feb bspin 12 bspin He clarified that the water district is not jacking up rates, but is lifting the exemption on the Local Water Utilities Administration’s (LWUA) prescribed rate guidelines set way back in 2010 bspin He said MCWD did not need to seek LWUA’s approval; rather they only informed the agency that they would be imposing the prescribed rate bspin Daluz said the rate adjustment, which will affect only commercial and industrial customers, was supposed to take effect last Dec bspin 1, 2023, but they decided to defer it due to the holiday season bspin According to a SunStar Cebu report on Nov bspin 19, 2023, the current rates for consumers -- residential, commercial and industrial -- for the first 10 cubic meters of water consumed is P15 bspin 20 per cubic meter bspin Beyond 10 cubic meters, or from 11-20 cubic meters, the rate is P16 bspin 80 per cubic meter; from 21-30 cubic meters, P19 bspin 80, and for usage exceeding 30 cubic meters, the rate is P48 bspin 40 cubic meter bspin Under the LWUA’s prescribed rate, the first 10 cubic meters will be P30 bspin 40 per cubic meter for commercial consumers and P45 bspin 60 for industrial consumers bspin Around 85 percent of the water district’s customers are residential, while the remaining 15 percent are composed of commercial and industrial customers bspin Daluz also pointed out that the adjustment that was supposed to take effect last December is separate from the rate hikes that the MCWD had asked the LWUA to approve, which included the 60 percent that should have taken effect last July 1 and another 10 percent that was supposed to be implemented in the middle of this year bspin Daluz said they will no longer pursue these rate hike petitions bspin He said the MCWD will allot the whole month of March to engage in a dialogue with business chambers and establishments within its franchise jurisdiction after it was informed that the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) had submitted its position regarding the rate adjustment directly to LWUA bspin SunStar Cebu reached out to CCCI president Charles Kenneth Co to comment on the matter, but he had yet to issue a statement as of press time bspin Meanwhile, Daluz said the MCWD has no choice but to implement the LWUA’s prescribed rate because MCWD will soon be purchasing water from desalination plants in Barangay Mambaling in Cebu City, Barangay Opao in Mandaue City and Barangay Catarman in Cordova bspin The desalination plant in Opao charges P73 bspin 86 per cubic meter bspin The ones in Mambaling and Catarman have yet to release their rates bspin Daluz admitted that commercial and industrial customers will be paying more for their water after April, but the move is crucial to support the water district’s ongoing infrastructure support and projects that will ensure a sufficient supply of water in Metro Cebu bspin ExemptionIn 2010, Daluz said, MCWD asked for an exemption as a policy to stay competitive after the water district lost a case against Margarita Adala bspin The loss prompted the earlier administration to uniformly charge its residential, commercial and industrial consumers, and not follow LWUA’s rate structure bspin On July 4, 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Adala to supply water to three sitios in Barangay Bulacao bspin The ruling added that the MCWD has no “exclusivity” on water distribution in Metro Cebu, thus opening its operation to competition from private water suppliers bspin Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama replaced MCWD board members Daluz, Miguelito Pato and Jodelyn May Seno last Oct bspin 31 with Melquiades Feliciano, Aristotle Batuhan and Nelson Yuvallos bspin But Daluz, Pato and Seno have refused to step down from their posts bspin Feliciano is the chairman of the Rama-appointed board bspin bspin What triggers a jackpot on a slot machine? - BingoPlus News

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