ERUF in Mandaue City

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Fire truck donation hits snag

By Dale G. Israel
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 12:25:00 06/17/2008

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines - A second-hand fire truck from Harlaamermeer in the Netherlands will be donated to Mandaue City, but Dutch officials want the city government to first set up a base for an emergency rescue group before the vehicle can be delivered.

Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes, who arrived from a trip to Harlaamermeer on Monday, said he is asking the City Council not to sit on the accreditation of the Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation (Eruf) to facilitate the truck donation.

“It’s a very high-tech truck that (also) requires training to operate it. The donors said they will give the truck if there’s an Eruf base in Mandaue,” Cortes said.

The mayor said he wants the council to speed up approval of Eruf’s application for accreditation, which had been delayed for sometime.

Opposition councilors, like majority floor leader Councilor Victor Biaño, said they have no problem with the group’s application.

“But there will be a problem in giving it (Eruf) P1.5 million, which is the real purpose of the accreditation,” Biaño told Cebu Daily News, referring to an item in the 2008 annual budget proposed by Cortes.

The amount was for the construction and initial operation of the Eruf base in Mandaue City.

Biaño said the Commission on Audit (COA) would not allow the allocation.

“The COA will not allow that (giving P1.5 million to Eruf) because the executive director (of Eruf), Hermie (Cortes), is the brother of the mayor,” Biaño explained.

Mayor Cortes said Mandaue needs to set up the Eruf base due to the special training needed for those operating the fire truck and its attached equipment.

The mayor said Eruf volunteers were trained by the Dutch last week.

The Eruf, formerly known as the Mandaue Emergency Rescue Unit, was founded by Cortes' father, the late mayor Demetrio Cortes.

The volunteer group pulled out of Mandaue and disbanded in the 1980s when then mayor Alfredo Ouano took office.

The city government created its own Accident Control and Emergency Rescue Team (Acert) in Mandaue.

Core volunteers of the Mandaue Rescue Unit then set up Eruf’s base in Cebu City.

Its high-tech equipment is mostly donated from foreign countries like Haarlemmermeer.


The multi-awarded volunteer rescue group eventually established a second base in Lapu-Lapu City.

With Cortes’ election last year, the group revived interest in returning to Mandaue City.

However, the opposition-dominated city council, packed with Ouano’s allies, has not approved Eruf’s accreditation.

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[gpcortes07]

good intentions sa mayor kuwang lang unity, kung sige ta ingon ani walay improvement kay negative thinker man kaayo ang opposition.

[mexicanlady]

Hala botar pa mo nilang Biano,Carlo ug uban pang mga way ayong politiko.Labad sa ulo man ning mga opposition councilors sa Mandaue oist.Hinaut nga sa sunod election wala na ni sila kay ang ila ani, pag lisud lisud ra man gyud sa bag-ong mayor.Kana si Biano magpa maayong laki gyud mura gyud ug korek.Nagtuo nga sikat siya.ALways magpa papel.

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Wala jud ko ka botar anang biano sukad sukad. korakot ni siya sa iyang personal ug professional life.


FYI Cebu City is subsidizing ERUF at 3 million per anum. Lapu-Lapu City is also subsidizing ERUF at 4 million per anum. Ngano man nga 1.5 million ra man unta gi pangayo ni mayor Jonas para sa ERUF for Mandaue, unya lisodlisoron man sa council nga ang budget sa Mandaue City is 800 million man unta per year, including supplemental budget, i think?

Bisan ug 500 million ra ang budget ma kaya ra unta sa Mandaue ang ERUF budget, di ba?

Dili ba ang taga Mandaue ra man ma alkanse aning kalakiha? Kinsa man diay kaha ang gi serbisyohan aning council? Ang mga tao sa Mandaue o si nerry ba kaha o si ouano?

Hala botari ninyo sunod election ning mga tawhana aron malubong pa gyud samot ang taga Mandaue!

[LanCe]

loslos anang mga opposition sa mandaue..cge lang ug binaboy..ang ciudad nila kay mao nag antos..labi na kana si Fortuna and co. sus!..so young to be a trapo but a trapo nevertheless..

[ngano-diay?]

Hala ka. Kaning opposition angay silotan. Mga way bu-ot! I remember didto sa session hall sila anhing Atty. Sison, Dr. Bigornia ug uban pa, gi suwayan ug bato bato sa mga opposition aron tingali ingnon sila nga ngil-ngig sila (sakto sila ngil-ngig sila the bidli kind). Ka dakong swerte ana nila nga mo balik sa Mandaue ang ERUF. Ato-a nang mga Mandauehanon ang ERUF unya ang uban na hinoon ang naka pa himos. Oi baya!

Ka hilas baya ani no? Si Tex Fortuna ug mo pa kuha sa ilang balay kay dad-on sa hospital ERUF man giod and tawagon, unya and hilas nga panuway nga anak ga babag-babag! Gi baliw na giod mong mga opposition.

Ngano man ni Carlo? Hadlok ka nga ma singkaan ug padaplin kung mo dasdas ka didto sa sunog? Mora ka man pod ug bomberong hilaw. Ganahan man diay kang mag bombero ngaong ga vice-mayor pa man ka? Apil apil ka ug traffic ganahan diay kang mag member sa TEAM nganong ga vice- mayor pa man ka? Sa inyong pag pang hinaway ni Mayor Boy sa una adto ra man pod diay ka mag sunod sunod.. wa man kay originality doy! Puro pang press release ra man na imo. Next time mag pa press release gani ka follow up dayon sa imong gi pang hambog!

Let's compare kuno bi ug unsay na buhat sa ERUF ug Acert? Training and Personel lang daan mag hal-hal lang ang taga Acert. Kung ari pod ta sa equipment, agoy mag pangawt na lang ang acert sa way katol.

Pag ka insecure giod intawn aning mga taga opposition. Wa pa man gud ni silay na buhat nga maka ingon sila nga proud sila. Papason nila ang mga nabuhat sa mga Cortes sa Mandaue? Agoy lisod na mahitabo.

Na hala kung maaberya na pod nang ilang fire truck nga sa panahon pa ni mayor boy, nang opposition ang pa duso-a.

Oi Carlo mag ribbon cutting ko sa among abuhan invited ka ha! Pag da ug imong kodakerz ug binayrang naunuwat.

Pag ka fieste giod!

[mexicanlady]

Carlo Fortuna, Victor Biano et al, mga way ayo.Kani pud uban mga columnist like Elias Espinosa, klaro kaayo laban sa mga Ouano.Kadawat siguro pirmi ug sobre kay pwerte man gyud siya maka laban sa mga Ouano.Sige panaway ni Mayor Cortes about sa traffic ug unsa na lang iyang panaway sa administrasyon ni Jonas.Wa siya mag hunahuna if smart man kaha ni siya nga pagka lawyer, mag lisud si Jonas ug implement ug mga maayong projects kay naay mga bu-ang nga mga opposition councilors nga sigeng ga babag.Pila ra gud ka councilors nga ally ni Jonas.Kung iyaha pa tanan councilors aw, daghan na kaayog nabuhat nga maayo si Jonas karon pero naa man ning mga tuytoy nga mga opposition councilors, leaded by no other than Biano the IMMORAL, kurakot councilor, hinay pa sa bao ang dagan sa administrasyon ni Jonas.

[ngano-diay?]

Mahimo ba kaha na sila pa talsikon no? Naa bay balaod para sa aning mga klase nga conseho?

Maayo pa man tingali ug mag people power mga taga mandaue. Di man si Mayor Jonas ang alaot ani ang mga mandauehanon man.

Oist kamong mga brayt diha sugod na mo ug huna huna ug naa ba tay balaod para ma papha nang mga way buot diha sa conseho.

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Mga Istoryans,


Please comment and let your voice be heard to help stop this atrocity in Mandaue.

I got this post from Mandauehanons Yahoo groups






Re: Responsible Opposition

The Mantawi Festival Foundation which was only a one day a year
activity was chaired by Teddy Ouano had a budget of 4 to 5 million.
The ACERT has a budget of 2 million annually for salaries only.

Now, if the COA did not mind Mandaue's giving 4-5 million of our
taxpayers money to the NGO Mantawi Foundation, why should it complain
when ERUF (which a world widely recognized NGO)
will be given only 1.5 million so it can serve Mandauehanons better?

The Teddy Ouano headed NGO Mantawi Foundation had its business address
at the Mandaue City Mayor's Office! It is like mayor Teddy giving money to
himself being the chairman of the said foundation! And the COA didn't
mind this at all then! Why is Biano so concerned about COA when the
money involved with Mantawi Foundation is more than double what Jonas
is asking for ERUF?

ERUF is, hands down, superior to ACERT in all aspects of their similar
mandates.

[Motownkid]

Biano, Fortuna... kada lihok ni Mayor Cortes himuong sayop.. pagka toytoy baya anang mga tawhana.

nice lagi ang mga Dutch noh kay for the welfare of Mandauehanons ra gihapon ilang gipangyo nga in-exchange sa ilang hi-tech nga fire truck... dili sila selfish, unlike sa mga toytoy nga politiko diha..heheh