Re: Snags/challenges in San Fernando la Union crematorium and columbarium invitation by City Govt

TO      Engr GCH,, Nelia, MsJoy Casi, Ms Campilis

Re:   Non Barangay Clearance release purportedly yesterday, November 27, 2020

Objective:    1.  To clarify our situation on Crematorium where we were invited by Mayor Ortega last August 27 2020

                    2.  To enable us to focus on our operations and lessen our backlogs;

                    

Background

                 1.  Ms Campilis said the BC would be released last November 15, 2020 after she met the Barangay official and when we pay

                      the P30,000 back payment and the new rate for interment;

                 2.  We asked for the barangay resolution for P30,000 and P50.00

                 3. Ms. Campilis said that the Barangay Clearance which has been made would be released yesterday November 27, 2020.

                     Instead  she made another presentation on the perils of cremation and effect on health.  No clearance was issued   

                 4. Ms. Campilis  was instead asked to make another presentation is obliged to make a  detailed house by house or zone by zone presentation of the benefits of                        cremation despite the fact that 90% of the council agreed, which means the majority rules and the resolution to allow crematorium construction

  Facts for clarity

  1. The way the barangay is acting and processing the clearance, we are applying for this clearance for our benefit.  Let us again recall why we are here

       Acting Mayor Al Ortega invited us in the  August 27 meeting to challenge the bid of Magnificat within 2 weeks after the meeting. We submitted

       the letter of intent during the said period.   We were cooperating at the behest of the City Govt to provide solution to covid 19 deaths.  We did not

       apply for a crematorium

2.  Mayor Gualberto who returned to his post first week of October  instead asked us to transfer the situs of the crematorium from Lingsat City Cemetery (which is in

     a densely populated area) instead to Dalumpines which is less populated) and even pointed to the ideal location  -  at the vault yard near the vacant lot

    foreclosed rice land and said go get the barangay clearance. and hence this processing of Barangay Clearance.

3.   Legally speaking, there was no need to seek BC since the memorial park prior has BC clearance and City Council approved  Development Permit

      As per IRR of EO 648 which governs memorial park, all related memorial services are allowed inside a cemetery/ memorial park

    .       1.  Ossuary

      .     2.  Memorial chapel

            3.  Crematorium

       Thus Mayor Gualberto was right in saying secure the Building Permit and the ECC.  The Barangay Clearance was a matter of due course.  In

       Pangasinan we simply paid the P1,300 barangay clearance fee.

  4  As far as the pollution concern is concerned:

      1.  The pollution from the leachate of the dead bodies at cemetery  due to mixture  of the body fluids and chloroform poses a greater risk to the health because

            it mixes with the water supply.  The choloroform is converted into cyanide which is not only toxic but  also  carcinogenic.

     2.  The sanitation code prescribes a 25  meter distance from household  and 50 meter distance from water supply.  The memorial park  is compliant with

          this. The site chosen by the good mayor elect Gualbertp is 150 meters from nearest house.  Hence there no need to be concerned.

     3.  All burning produces toxic by products like Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide, Dioxin etc, the same is minimized if not not totally eradicated by a second

         chamber in the crematorium and second burner which burns eradicates 90% of the said effluents.  An actual visit to the crematorium at SCC which

         operates silently and is odorless and colorless 

        There are over 50 such similar machines all over the country which passes the strict DENR standards

        Our machine has double burner to insure that such pollutants are burned eradicated at the source

  5.  This company which has no plans for putting up a crematorium at SFLU is doing so in response to call of City Mayor: as a patriotic duty.  ie to help

        cititizens of San Feranndo cope up with problems of dead persons

       1.  To help solve the lack of burial space at Lingsat by way of crematorium and and ash and bone crypts;

       2.  Counter the threat of covid 19 through cremation;

       3.   To provide affordable interments - safe convenient to the residents of City of San Fernando

      

       The mistrust and the merry go round that we are experience does not jive with the desire of City Mayor and we feel unwelcome with 

       our monetary investment  and knowhow to solve the problem of San Fernando.  This #5 I think must be spelt out to the barangay and citizens

        of Dalumpines Oeste  It is disappointing  (Or perhaps we have not made the explanation clearer

        We thus need deeper understanding of our products hence the reflection on cremation slidehsare is urgently required  (not answered by RCG,, JT, MC MJC

       We will wait for the time that we can be appreciated and when we are made to understand that the barangay City needs our investment and expertise

    What to do next

    1.  We will wait;  its up to Ms. Campilis to comply with the request for educational campaign but never shall she use this as her alibi.  The

          crematorium at SFLU is shelved as 4th or last priority unless the City Mayor says so.  Let us conserve our cash and or invest it where it

          is necessary

   2.  Clarify with the Bbarangay head what is the ball game

   3. If 2 is not OK clarify the issues with Mayor Gualberto.  

                 No crematorium before the year ends;

                 

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:45 PM Jorge Saguinsin <jorge.holygardens@gmail.com> wrote:

TO  Ms. Madel

cc:     Engr. GCH, Ms. Marjie Campilis

SUBJECT;   OBSERVED DELAYS  IN THE CREMATORIUM AND COLUMBARIUM INVITATIONAL PROJECT IN  San Fernando La Union

October 21, 2020

1.  We were invited to join in a bid, amongst Forest Hills and Magnificat to build and operate crematorium and columbarium  at t he City Cemetery at LIngsat 

     by Acting Mayor Alfredo Ortega in a meeting with the City Council on Augutst 27, 2020.  We were invited to submit a Letter of Intent  that would better the

     P15,000 monthly rent by Magnificat

2.   We submitted a Letter of Intent 2 weeks after that specified:

     1.  Rental lease for 300 sm area for crematorium that  (with % revenue sharing)  and 90 -10% sharing on gross revenue;  With turn over of the crematorium on 

          the 15th year.   

     2.  Usufruct for 800 sm the fence of the cemetery for 5000 units on 70:30% sharing on the gross

3.  In October, the suspended Mayor Hermenegildo Gualberto now returned to power by virtue of Court of Appeals ruling vs Ombudsman that suspended him, and 

     Mayor Alfredo Ortega met with Ms. Margie Campilis: with this ruling decision:

    1.  The crematorium shall not be built at Lingsat but at Holy Gardens site at Dalumpines.  The good Mayor Gualberto even pointed the site at the vault yard

         near the body crypts at the site.  Go ahead to obtain the Barangay Clearance from Dalumpines and get the ECC

   2.  The columbarium at the fence shall be pursued

4.  When Ms. Margie went back again this October to obtain minutes of the award, and/or approval, she could not get one.   (we speculate because of the current

     political climate)   and then

     THE BARANGAY CAPTAIN WOULD NOT RELEASE THE BARANGAY CLEARANCE UNLESS OUR BACK LOGS IN PAYMENT OF P10.00/INTERMENT BE UPDATED

     AND INCREASE THE SAME.   

    iN our discussion with GCH and  MC this afternoon, we consider the Barangay Clearance as a critical path a bottle neck in the crematorium approval process

    and nothing moves and  are dependent on this BC. 

   Hence the order to  hack the steps without the mayor's approval  could not proceed  ie:   getting the  Building Permit and ECC  is hereby relaxed.  We wait for the Barangahy 

  Clearance but we must inform the good mayor that we  can not see the Crematorium in 2020 at the rate we are moving with the paper works and the red tape

 For clarity, we were invited to join this, we did not apply for a crematorium; if the City is Serious in this project to serve the needs of the people, it must provide us with necessary approvals and paper works.   

We just wait for the City to move and ask us too.