Citilink wants to get accreditation
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THE owners of One Citilink Terminal are “exasperated” and feel “harassed” by the Cebu City government’s “dilly dallying” on their application for accreditation.
In a letter addressed to the Cebu City Council, Citilink’s legal counsel Ralph Sevilla said they have complied with the requirements but have yet to get any feedback. He said they submitted the requirements to the City Council in its capacity as PUJ/V-Hire Terminal Accreditation Body.
But City Administrator Lucelle Mercado earlier wrote to One Citilink Terminal president Albert Lim last May 29 asking for a business permit, an existing memorandum of agreement (MOA), existing certificate of accreditation to operate the terminal and favorable recommendation of the Cebu City Zoning Board certifying that the terminal has complied with the provisions of the Cebu City Zoning Ordinance.
Mercado, who heads the terminal accreditation committee, said they have yet to receive the documents until now.
“They submitted it to the City Council and not to us. Until now we still don’t have a copy of the documents we asked,” Mercado said.
The city’s MOA with the terminal expired last August 3, 2008.
Mayor Michael Rama had been vocal in wanting to close the terminal, saying it can’t operate near a hospital. The terminal is located beside the lot of the Cebu City Medical Center.
With the construction of the new CCMC in the same site, Rama wants the terminal closed.
The City Treasurer’s Office (CTO) also cited the terminal’s close to P11 million tax delinquencies, which was denied by Sevilla during an executive session with the City Council late last January.
In his letter to the City Council, Sevilla said the terminal’s management has been receiving letters from the City Legal Office, CTO, City Administrator and even CCMC citing various “but repetitive, unfounded grounds” about the terminal’s operations. He said these were also taken up during the executive session.
The letter was referred by the City Council to the committee on laws for review and comment.
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