Councilor Myrna Dalodo-Ortiz, chairperson of the finance committee of the city council, is pushing for the approval of an ordinance imposing fees for the use of the cold storage facilities at the Malagos “AA” Slaughterhouse to increase the revenue of the city.
Entitled “An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. 0291-17, Otherwise Known as the 2017 Revenue Code of Davao City, Particularly Section 383, Paragraph G Thereof” aims to impose the following fees for use of the said facilities: chilling at P100 per carcass, blasting at P5 per kilo, and cold storage at P.40 per kilo.
For the use of equipment in the operations area, the city treasurer is mandated to collect the following fees: weighing scale for live hogs at P10 per head, and electronic/computerized weighing scale for carcasses at P10 per carcass.
The ordinance also ordered the city treasurer to collect the following fees for the use of the meat-cutting equipment: bone saw stand type at P10 per kilo, meat grinder at P10 per kilo, meat slicer at P10 per kilo, meat bowl cutter at P10 per kilo, sausage filler at P10 per kilo, and meat mixer at P10 per kilo.
Dalodo said in an interview that the expected collection from the cold storage facility will reach up to P11.1 million a year while the amount that the city can collect from meat-cutting services will reach up to P12.7 million per year.
“Kailangan magkaroon tayo ng mga steps sa Davao City to increase our revenue nga para we will not just rely sa atoang national tax allotment,” she said.
The Malagos Double A abattoir (for hogs) with cold storage and meat cutting facilities and the Halal slaughterhouse is located at Purok 3A Barangay Malagos, Baguio District, Davao City.
The slaughterhouses were funded by the Department of Agriculture (DA) under the National Livestock Program, DA 11 (BUB) Program, and the city government of Davao.
The P80 million budget for the completion of the non-halal abbatoir was sourced from the DA National Livestock Program, P5 million came from DA 11 Bottom-up-Budgeting (BuB), and P1 million from the city government of Davao for the halal abattoir.
