PUBLIC ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES

            Municipal Port (Nabilid Port) 

            The existing municipal port at Barangay Nabilid The municipal wharf located in Barangay Nabilid was devolved to the LGU from the PPA. The management of Nabilid Port was formally turn-over from the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) to the municipality of Pres.M.A. Roxas last April 25, 2002. A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was executed and signed on January 8, 2002 between of two parties, the PPA General Manager Alfonso G. Cusi and Mayor Carlito A. Feras.  At present, the Nabilid  port is on operation to where cargo vessels  are docking which contributed additional income to the LGU. The LGU is now on process of seeking assistance for further development of the port to be fully operational. 

Heavy  Equipment 

            The municipality of Pres. M.A. Roxas had procured numerous heavy equipment. These are being used for the various infrastructure projects of the town, public utility services and the like. But aside from its usual task, the same have had generated income to the town. A scheme called Equipment Rental Request Order has generated  income  and had helped  this  LGU.    

            AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT/POST HARVEST FACILITIES 

Although the funds appropriated were not huge, but still numerous agricultural equipments were procured by the Department of Agriculture. These were distributed to different Barangays.                              

COFFEE  PLANTATION / NURSERY 

            The municipality has just proposed to undertake  a coffee plantation. Henceforth, there were numerous recently concluded seminars conducted for the said purpose. Moreover, a 200-hectare proposed lot has already been prepared and the Municipal Agriculturist office has established the seed-bed for the coffee plantation in the nursery. Experimental coffee plantation is on-going at Sitio Tapisa, Barangay Panampalay reserved forest area. 

            Among others, various kinds of fruit seedlings have grown in the nursery, with which some of these were being sold to prospective buyers, a way that the same could also generate income and at the same time could help sustain for its maintenance.              

MARKET  AND  SLAUGHTERHOUSE 

            In the midst of the Municipality’s desire to establish a new market, it cannot be denied that in some ways, the old  edifice  has contributed revenues to the town. Hence, just last year, an amount of Php 200,467.44  was the reported income taken from its business tax. A minimal estimated monthly rental of not less than Php 1,600.00, amounting to not less than Php 19,200.00 a year can be added. Moreover, the slaughterhouse has only contributed last year an amount of  Php 3,397.00 taken also from its business tax.

 TERMINAL  (JEEPNEYS-MOTOR CABS) 

            Every Local Government Unit (LGU) has been endowed with such power to exercise police power so long that the same is not repugnant to the Constitution. The creation  therefore of an ordinance and a resolution to validly effect such traffic scheme, even to the extent of creating a re routing scheme, the aim is to provide  safety to the public, has been held in the affirmative by our courts. Needless to say, such has been one of the good example of public economic enterprise, that is directed to both revenues and services.           

Services, because the  Municipality has accorded much attention to the public by providing them the comfort and safety of their daily transportation activity. This is pursuant to Resolution No. 277,  dated and approved on October 9, 2000 which states x x x  Resolution requesting the PNP Traffic Management Officer to see to it that any driver who will leave first from among the drivers of motorcabs and other vehicles for hire should park from the right side of the public market to the left side of Lintag residence. Revenues,  because pursuant to Ordinance No. 08, dated and approved on March 2, 1998, imposing parking fee to all passenger vehicles in front the public market of the Municipality.           

Section 2, of Ordinance No. 08, provides that all passenger vehicles parking in front of the public market must pay  parking fee of  P 5.00  

GYMNASIUM 

            The Municipality’s Gymnasium has been one of the landmark from which the previous administration has leave as a legacy. Despite hurling  opinions, both of  legal and a mere public concern as to its creation, the latter has been erected albeit the needed requirements that was no longer of much importance under such scheme. 

            Hence, Resolution No. 163 dated and approved on June 7, 2000 has been the legal basis for its construction. Further, Ordinance No. 01 dated and approved on February 5, 2003, provides for the so-called The Mini-Gymnasium Rental Law¸  which fixes the rental of the same. 

            Section 3, 2003 of the said ordinance, the rental of mini-gymnasium as classified according to the nature of the activities to be conducted by any sponsoring agency, such as : Sports, Social, Educational, Religious, Political and Cultural activities.