No solid waste board revamp, says Cabrera

THERE are no changes in the members of the Cebu City Solid Waste Management Board.

Councilor Nida Cabrera, who heads the City Council’s environment committee, said yesterday that Mayor Michael Rama agreed to a status quo after she complained about the replacement of the board’s NGO and private sector representatives.

“The mayor listened. It will be status quo for the solid waste board. We’ll continue with our work),” she said in Cebuano.

Cabrera, chair of the council’s environment committee, said that the board already identified programs to implement for the planned total closure of the Inayawan landfill starting Oct. 1.

Rama earlier ordered a revamp of various boards and commissions under the mayor’s office. An environment lawyer, Gloria Estenzo Ramos, declined to sit as a new member and lamented that she only learned she was included through media reports. Doris C. Bongcac