City gov’t sets aside P1.5 M to decorate city for Christmas Day

ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZNS) -  The city government will spend :1.5 million to decorate city hall, streets in time for the celebration of Chrsitmas next month.

The General Services Office will be the agency tasked to decorate the city’s urban areas.

GSO Engineer Rene dela Cruz said the amount will be used primarily to buy decorative lights and other materials to decorate the city.

Workers in his office are hurrying in the preparation of materials to be used to decorate the town because it is just over half a month to December.

He explained that there was a little delay in the preparation of the decorative materials because GSO workers were also tasked to prepare the Zamboecozone site for the 5-day Centennial Jamboree that started there  Saturday and will end this week.

For last year, the city government used P1.2 million but there was an increase of P300,000 in expenditures for this year.

The increase in the budget is due to the decision to purchase LED light instead of the standard bulbs.

LED or Light Emitting Diodes provide cool lights minus the heat because the light is produced by the diodes and not the standard wire filament that produces and emits heat.

The decorations will be concentrated at City Hall, Plaza Pershing and streets in the center of the city proper.

The color scheme for the decoration and blue and silver.

The Christmas season in this city will officially start first day of December with a program and the simultaneous lighting of lights at Plaza Pershing. (111114)