SMRITT stands for SM Rosales Intermodal Transport Terminal. It was created by enabling ordinance (Cdr. No. 06-2013, enacted by the 8th Sangguniang Bayan of Rosales, Pangasinan and with a corresponding SB Resolution authorizing the Municipal Mayor
SMRITT
stands for SM Rosales Intermodal Transport Terminal. It was created by enabling
ordinance (Cdr. No. 06-2013, enacted by the 8th Sangguniang Bayan of Rosales,
Pangasinan and with a corresponding SB Resolution authorizing the Municipal
Mayor to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with SM Prime Holdings, Inc.
pertaining “to the establishment, operation and management of the SMRITT- to
set the stage for its establishment and to clearly define terms and conditions
pertaining thereof.”
So,
last October 31, 2013 at 9:00 A.M. at the Presidencia Building Hall of Rosales,
Pangasinan became a historic date and a momentous hour for the classic success
of a government- private sectors’s cooperative economic venture, a partnership
scheme conformably with the investment policy of the government underlying the
Public-Private Partnership principle. This has become a glaring reality as far
as the Rosales LGU and SM City’s regulated, business-run transport terminal
system is concerned, For on said date and hour has finally arrived the moment
of truth- the glory that was PPP-its fruition into reality- the eventual
signing of the said MOA by and between LGU Rosales and SM Prime Holdings, Incorporated.
Arriving in full force for the signing and
to represent SM Prime Holdings were Engr. Bien C. Mateo (who sign in behalf of
SMPHI), Mr. Cesar P. Bondoc, Regional Operations Manager; Atty. Melisa Lingat,
Legal Officer; Engr. Jersey Y. Mendoza, Mall Manager; Ms. Jerrylyn R. Jiminez,
Mall Secretary and Ms. Romyrose Dela Cruz, Assistant Operations Officer.
Signing in behalf of LGU Rosales was our
very own Municipal Mayor Susan Pagador-Casareno in the presence of Vice Mayor
Harry Bernabe’s Private Secretary Mrs. Corpuz and Sangguniang bayan members
Leon C. Licudo, JR., Rey Oligan, Romy Sim and Manolo Quiambao and this writer.