"I will have the last laugh, we will catch them."

This was the warning Silay Mayor Jose "Oti" Montelibano gave yesterday to city employees who stripped the mayor's office of its documents and contents and vandalized city government vehicles.

Former Silay Mayor Carlo Gamban left days before he took over as mayor and it was while Gamban was gone that those things were committed, Montelibano said.

When he took over the mayor's office there were no documents left and the hard disks on the computers had been reformatted, the new Silay mayor said.

We are trying to recover files, we will catch up with the people who sabotaged the mayor's office, he said.

The office of the mayor was cleaned out, even furniture was taken, he said.

Montelibano, who was at the Provincial Development Council meeting at the Capitol in Bacolod City, also said the Silay City government is currently running on air but his administration is looking for funding.

The budget of the office of the mayor is zero up to December 31, it is a good thing an P8 million supplementary budget was approved Tuesday but it is still inadequate, he said.

The previous administration had been juggling the budget, it's a mess, he said. Meanwhile, Montelibano said he is pushing for an export processing zone in Silay City and a five star hotel with a capacity of 3,000 for the holding of conventions. He also said work is underway on the McKinley Road leading to the new Bacolod-Silay airport.*CPG

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