Use of Taoyuan Airport Compensation in Heated Debate 免付營養午餐 桃3區機場回饋金用途熱議

The Taoyuan airport compensation is usually used to pay the lunch fees for all public and private primary and junior high schools in Dayuan, Guanyin, and Xinwu District but now all the fees are taken by the city government. Therefore, how to use airport compensation has generated heated debate. 

Lining up for meals, students enjoy lunches in their classrooms. Starting this semester, Taoyuan will provide free lunches for all public and private primary and junior high schools. The lunch fees for schools in Dayuan District no longer need to be paid by airport compensation. As to how to utilize this excess NT$64.2 million of airport compensation, people engage in heated debate.  

Hsu Chi-wan, Taoyuan City Councilor: “We may appropriate it as health check-up fees for a village's operating costs; as for the remainder NT$8 million, use it for construction fees for the district office.”

You Wu-he, Taoyuan City Councilor: “Chang San-cheng's policies should not be borne by Dayuan residents; thus this money should not be kept in district offices for construction fees since all construction fees should be appropriated by the city government.”

Comparing the proposals by pan-blue and pan-green city councilors, the biggest difference lies in infrastructure. The Department of Environmental Protection noted that cash subsidies, cultural charity events, and infrastructure are all within reasonable parameters for the use of airport compensation. Hence, after consolidation by the district office, the proposals will be submitted for review by the noise airport compensation review committee for the final version.

Huang Bo-hong, Noise Control Sec. Chief, Dept. of Environmental Protection, Taoyuan: “If the two proposed plans are accepted, they will be reported to the city government by the district office for overall consideration, then submitted to the aircraft noise control funds management committee for review.”

In addition, because of Datan Power Plant, Guanyin, and Xinwu received NT$39 million and NT$27.7 million respectively of Taipower's electricity promotion development assistance money. The initial plan is to use it for schools and educational purposes, as well as infrastructural objects such as road and road light repairs.

排隊打飯，學生們在教室享用熱騰騰的營養午餐，這學期開始，桃園不分公私立國中小全面提供免費營養午餐，大園區也不必再由機場回饋金支應，對於多出來的6420萬元回饋金該如何運用，地方激烈討論。

桃園市議員徐其萬表示：「就是提撥當健康檢查費給一個里的運作費用，剩下的800萬左右就給公所當建設費用。」

桃園市議員游吾和表示：「張善政的政見不應由我們大園人民來承擔，不應該把這筆錢再留在區公所做建設費用，因為所有的建設費用都是市政府要撥下來。」

比較藍綠兩位議員提案，最大差異是在基礎建設部分。環保局表示，現金補助、文化公益活動或基礎建設都是回饋金合理使用範圍，將由公所彙整後送噪音回饋金審議委員會審議，決定最後版本。

桃市環保局噪音管制科長黃伯弘表示：「2規畫案沒問題，後續會由區公所簽報市府通盤考量後，再送航噪基金委員會審議。」

另外，觀音和新屋因大潭電廠緣故，今年也分別獲得3900萬和2770萬的台電促進電力發展營運協助金，初步規畫用在學校等教學使用、還有道路、路燈修繕等地方基礎建設上。