City vice mayor opposes sale of new tricycle steel plates
ROXAS CITY – City Vice Mayor Ronnie Dadivas opposes the selling of new tricycle steel plates since there was no approved ordinance to that effect.
“That will be additional burden on the part of tricycle operators especially during this financial crisis,” Dadivas said. According to him, aside from wrong timing the sale of steel plates is illegal.
He said that it is not a right procedure to implement the sale of the steel plates prior to passing a resolution for its purpose.
Dadivas, who is a lone opposition at the city council, said that the city government sold steel plates last year and “it could still be used this year with sticker inserted in the previous steel plate.”
The city government was selling the new steel plates to tricycle operators to avoid duplication of city numbers as experienced from the previous years.
The new steel plate being sold to the tricycle operators costs P250.00 each and it is one of the requirements for the operators to renew their mayor’s permit.
The city government will earn P1 million, more or less, from the 3,500 tricycles which ply their routes in the city.