Puto vendors to have individual electric meters

CALASIAO, Pangasinan- Some forty (40) stallholders occupying the Puto Commercial Complex here will have their own electric meters thus they will shoulder their own monthly power consumptions.

Mayor Mark Roy Q. Macanlalay explained that his administration is currently implementing cost-cutting measures, and the individual electric metering program among the Puto vendors is one way to reduce the monthly power consumptions of the municipal government.

“Since the Puto Complex was constructed during the time of former Mayor Roy T. Macanlalay, the local government has been religiously paying the monthly electric bills of every stall. However, when I assumed office in July 2010, we discovered that there are occupants who already have refrigerators, electric fans and even rice cookers inside their stalls, and obviously the municipal government can no longer subsidize their exorbitant electric bills,” Macanlalay informed.

He said the mayor’s office is helping the puto vendors to expedite the processing of their electric applications at Dagupan Electric Corporation (DECORP).  “I was informed that there are already stalls which now have their individual power,” Mayor Mark averred.

The 26-year-old bachelor mayor added that the individual metering program is no longer new in Calasiao because the municipal government has already implemented it to the stall owners in their Municipal Public Market.

“Hindi maiwasan na may mga kontra sa programa nating ito, pero naniniwala ako na mapapakiusapan din natin ang mga puto vendors na magkaroon ng kanya-kanyang metro para sila na rin ang magtitipid sa kanilang mga konsumo,” Macanlalay said.

For the past several weeks, the power service at the Puto Commercial Complex was shut off after the electric bill was not settled to the DECORP.

This third district town is famous not only to the miraculous Senor Divino Tesoro Shrine but also for its delicious puto (rice cake).

Mayor Macanlalay assured the puto vendors that the municipal government will continuously be supportive to the puto industry.

Puto stallholders will shoulder their own electric consumptions.