Sinajana Vice Mayor Robert Hoffman, council vice president, heads the committee overseeing the program. He said that they have already met with the Guam Environmental Protection Agency about the program which involves the collection of junk vehicles.
“We’ve approved the work plan and design. Each village need is very specific so we can’t just take one design and go to each village and say we’re going to use it,” Hoffman explained.
“Some villages,” he said have smaller roads and some of these cars are in valleys and rivers. We have cars in ponding basins so it’s getting equipment needs list together, finding out what the needs are and balancing them out.”
Bali Steel, which also took handled shipping of abandoned vehicles off-island when the program was active back in 2007, has been retained by the mayors council for the program continuation.
Hoffman said some $490,000 collected from the abandoned vehicle fee included as part of vehicle registrations with the Department of Revenue and Taxation will fund the project.
“We’re not going to run out of money,” the vice mayor said. “It’s a revolving fund as long as people register their cars and pay into it, but it’s just matter of getting the money.”
Santa Rita will be the first village in the revitalized program to be targeted for clean up. Hoffman said abandoned vehicles dot urbanized and rural areas of the southern village.
