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PASIG CITY, May 7, 2025 (SDN) — Team Kaya This candidate for mayor, Sarah Discaya can do a better new Pasig City Hall project with multiple modern buildings for Php8.7 billion.

That’s Php900 million less than the project of Mayor Vico Sotto worth at first Php9.6 billion dubbed Pasig City Hall Campus before it was pared down to Php9.2 billion after its “bidding”.

Curlee Discaya, husband of Ate Sarah as she is fondly regarded by her beloved Pasigueños, made this declaration to the effect that if Sotto can do it, she can build better at a lesser cost and more buildings, future-proof and earthquake-proof.

Kuya Curlee, also popularly known as such by his fellow Pasig residents, is president and CEO of the Quadruple “A” St. Gerrard Construction Contractor and Development Corporation with Headquarters in the heart of the city in Barangay Bambang.

He met members of the mainstream media and the blogging community in his office today, as he presented Ate Sarah’s proposed and planned projects if given the chance to serve Pasig and its over 800,000 citizens.

He assured that the projects can be done in three years because there is already a budget in the government coffers (the Php9.6 billion) , saying the savings can be used immediately to implement zero billings in city hospitals for Pasigueño patients, indicating that Ate Sarah will hit the ground running if she gets to City Hall as the local chief executive.

Besides, he emphasized, as a Quadruple “A” builders with the badge of excellence they had already constructed several big-ticket projects including national structures.

At the same time, he assured they will not be involved any construction projects because the law prohibits getting contracts for public officials and their relatives up to third-degree of consanguinity.

Projects will undergo biddings according to the rules set by the government, he added, but they will make sure winning bidders will be closely and strictly supervised and if they transgress the law, no one will be spared, they will be brought to justice and banned.

According to his presentation at the press conference as shown on a video his staff prepared, here’s what will comprised Ate Sarah’s multiple building projects:

1.) New City Hall Building, with same floor area and landscape – PhP2.7 Billion. Discaya said efficient public service is still needed, but it’s not the center — people are priority.

2.) 1 Unit New 11-storey Hospital – PhP500 Million
For mothers who labored in a tricycle. For children with fever. For families with nothing to pay.

3.) 5 Units of New 11-storey Housing Buildings – PhP2.0 Billion
Not a housing far from Pasig. Not a mere promised drawing. Real home for the informal settlers here in Pasig.

4.) 1 Unit New 11-storey University Building – PhP500 Million
For the youth whose only hindrance is poverty, not ability.

5.) 5 Units New 7-storey High School Buildings – PhP500 Million
So that students will not be overcrowded so that they will feel they are priority.

6.) 5 Units New 4-storey Elementary School Buildings – PhP500 Million
Because the future does not begin only in college. It should be from the root.
7.) 2 New Bridges Construction – PhP300 Million

It’s not only a bridge over a river — this is a bridge of opportunity, connecting every community and the neighboring cities in Metro Manila.

8.) 10 Units – 3km Roads in Barangay Pinagbuhatan – PhP100 Million
So that even if you are at the end of the city, you will feel you are included in progress.

9.) 10 Units – 3km Drainage & Flood Control in Badangagt Pinagbuhatan – PhP100 Million
For families whose houses are perennialy flooded so that they will not anymore sleep in the sacks of sand.

10.) 30 New Multi-Level Multi-purpose Halls & Covered Courts – PhP1.5 Billion
Spaces for community for the youth who wish to play, train, or start to dream.
That’s a grand total: PhP8.7 Billion.

Kuya Curlee said the PhP8.7 infrastructure projects will be constructed simultaneously and will be completed in three years (2025-2028).

He noted that the incumbent’s new Pasig City Hall building costs PhP210,000 per square meter which he claimed is comparable with the cost of Dubai’s Burj al-Arab, the world’s tallest building.
While the PhP2.7-billion city hall building under the administration of Ate Sarah would only cost PhP70,000 per square meter.

He assured that they will not participate in the bidding and construction of the PhP8.7 Billion infrastructure projects as Republic Act No. 9184 prohibits relatives up to the third degree of consanguinity of the elected official to participate in such undertakings.

Discaya stressed that the PhP9.6 billion may even shoot up to PhP31 billion before the project is completed since costs of materials will shoot up.

He pointed out that he was not accusing anybody of corruption in the PhP9.6 billion new Pasig City Hall building, but he can present the calculation of the cost estimate of the PhP8.7 Billion infrastructure projects.

Kuya Curlee emphasizes he and Ate Sarah being a married couple, he can speak for her as he knows very well.

He asked Pasigueños to think well about the coming elections because their future is at stake, and if they want and like Ate Sarah’s proposed projects then they know what to do come Monday, May 12.(®)