Pattaya Council donates rice
and dried food to employees of the city’s Public Health and Environment
Department.
Montree Kotchawong
Pattaya’s mayor and city council said “thank you” to the
city’s street sweepers, trash collectors and drainpipe cleaners by giving
them handouts of free food and an invitation to live in new city housing
being built for their department.
Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome handed out 240 bags of rice and
other dried food to employees of the city’s Public Health and Environment
Department Sept. 5 as a way to offset their living expenses. The mayor and
members of the city council, in particular thanked Sanitation Department
workers for their work in keeping garbage off the streets and out of the
city’s storm-water drains.
Six days later, floods due largely to clogged drains
unable to handle hours of heavy rain devastated the city.
City officials believed, however, workers were doing a
good job and decided to reward them with a four-story, 10.3 million baht
dormitory where 27 families can save on living expenses by living in city
housing.
The free food handout cost taxpayers an additional 48,000
baht.
