Tiff over Sagada road planted with bananas ‘settled’ with LGU

By Gina Dizon

SAGADA Mountain Province – The dispute over a road planted with bananas here is now considered solved.
    Affected lot owner Nora Paleyan said she was happy with agreements with the monitoring team who visited the Pukan to     Bomabanga barangay road after she sent her complaint to the implementing municipal government  unit of Sagada, the  Department of Interior and Local Government and contractor  Bontoc Builders.
    This time, an additional parapet will be constructed to prevent rain water from going to her lot located below the road. The parapet shall also secure safety of passersby and motorists plying the road.   
    Said team met with barangay officials of Patay at the local barangay hall last week, discussed the issue and proceeded to inspect the project site.  
    The complaint letter of Paleyan cited breach of agreement with contractors on borders to guide construction which instead scraped off some 100 meters of her property for the road.  

As the team monitoring team recognized the mistake, Paleyan gave in to the suggestion that sections taken from her property be added to the road width but the parapet should be constructed.

The barangay road project was programmed to measure  six meters in width.

An interview with municipal engoneer Siano Baldo said the cost of the added parapet shall be taken from a variation order with some changes in the specifications of the P9 million project cost.  

Interior engineer Ivy Khayad said cost of the requested parapet  shall be programmed for budgeting in upcoming infrastructure projects if  cost from variation order is not enough.

The 9 million Pukan-Bomabanga barangay road connects the end of the Dao-angan to Pukan road and snakes upward joining the Sagada-Besao provincial way.     

Earlier, banana trees were planted on said barangay road project by the lot owner due after portions of her property were included in the road project.