PAGADIAN CITY – Using its P1 million prize from winning
the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH) of the Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG), the municipality of Alicia has embarked on building an
eco-tourism swimming pool to promote tourism in the municipality and, at the
same time, to generate some income.
DILG-IX Information Officer Lemuel Mejares said in a press release the swimming
pool, which is 25-meter x 10-meter in size and five feet deep, is about to be
finished based on the recent assessment by DILG-IX regional monitoring team.
“This is not only an avenue
to promote our tourism but also an income-generating project of the LGU,” said
Alicia Municipal Mayor Richard V. Tiu Sr.
Mayor Tiu together with
Municipal Engineer Edmund A. Tan and Municipal Planning and Development
Coordinator Silverio O. Panes walked the monitoring team to the eco-tourism
pool built near the municipal hall.
The project cost totaled 2.8
million of which PI million came from Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) received
by the municipality from winning the SGH.
This PCF is an incentive
fund to LGUs that passed the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH). The fund can be
used to construct school buildings, rural health units, tourism facilities,
flood control projects, solid waste management facilities, etc.
Funds are still coming from
the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to complete the project with
counterparts from the municipality.
“We are now working on the
excavation for the pipelines that will supply large volume of water to the
pool,” Engr. Tan said.
Tan believed the pool would
be fully operational within the year.