By Perfecto T. Raymundo, Jr.
PASIG CITY — If elected Mayor in the May 12 midterm elections, Sarah Discaya will utilize an PhP8.7-billion allotment not only to build a new city hall but several infrastructure projects for the benefit and welfare of all Pasiguenos.
It can be noted that the budget of PhP9.6-billion will only be used by the current city administration to construct a new Pasig City Hall Building.
But under the Sarah Discaya administration (2025-2028), with the PhP8.7-billion budget, will have a different direction compared with the current administration.
Not only a single edifice will be built which costs a huge amount, but rather, the future of every Pasigueños will be assured.
In a press conference, Curlee Discaya, husband of Ate Sarah, said that under the humane Sarah Discaya administration, the following will be constructed:
1.) New City Hall Building, with same floor area and landscape – PhP2.7 Billion
Discaya said efficient public service is still needed, but it’s not the center — people are priority.
2.) 1 Unit New 11-storey Hospital – PhP500 Million
For mothers who labored in the tricycle. For children with fever. For families with nothing to pay.
3.) 5 Units of New 11-storey Housing Buildings – PhP2.0 Billion
Not a distant housing. Not a promised drawing. Real home for the informal settlers here in Pasig.
4.) 1 Unit New 11-storey University Building – PhP500 Million
For the youth whose only hindrance is poverty, not ability.
5.) 5 Units New 7-storey High School Buildings – PhP500 Million
So that students will not be overcrowded so that they will feel they are priority.
6.) 5 Units New 4-storey Elementary School Buildings – PhP500 Million
Because the future does not only begin in college. It should be from the root.
7.) 2 New Bridges Construction – PhP300 Million
It’s not only a bridge over a river — this is a bridge of opportunity, connecting every community and the neighboring cities in Metro Manila.
8.) 10 Units – 3km Roads in Brgy. Pinagbuhatan – PhP100 Million
So that even if you are at the end of the city, you will feel you are included in progress.
9.) 10 Units – 3km Drainage & Flood Control in Brgy. Pinagbuhatan – PhP100 Million
For families who are perennialy flooded so that they will not anymore sleep in the sacks of sand.
10.) 30 New Multi-Level Multi-purpose Halls & Covered Courts – PhP1.5 Billion
Spaces for community for the youth who wish to play, train, or start to dream.
That’s a grand total: PhP8.7 Billion.
Curlee Discaya, President and CEO of St. Gerrard Construction General Contractor and Development Corp. (SGC), said the PhP8.7 infrastructure projects will be constructed simultaneously and will be completed in three years (2025-2028).
Discaya noted that the PhP9.6-billion new Pasig City Hall building costs PhP210,000 per square meter which is comparable with Dubai’s Burj al-Arab Khalifa, which is the world’s tallest building.
While the PhP2.7-billion city hall building under the administration of Ate Sarah would only costs PhP70,000 per square meter.
He assured that they will not participate in the bidding and construction of the PhP8.7 Billion infrastructure projects as RA 9184 prohibits relatives up to the third degree of consanguinity of the elected official to participate in such undertakings.
Discaya stressed that the PhP9.6 billion may even shoot up to PhP31 billion.
He pointed out that he is not accusing anybody of corruption in the overpriced PhP9.6 billion new Pasig City Hall building, but he can present the calculation of the cost estimate of the PhP8.7 Billion infrastructure projects. ###
