The mayors of Boca Chica, Santo Domingo North and Santo Domingo East issued a joint declaration that states the problem with the Duquesa Refuse Depository was financially-motivated above all else. They laid the blame on the mayors of the National District and Santo Domingo West for having broken the working agreement. This pact was signed just last week and dealt with the maintenance of the Duquesa site. The Duquesa Consortium says that it is only receiving half of the money needed to operate the site and that it furthermore needs RD$25 million to convert the site into a sanitary landfill and recondition the access ways. The three mayors said that the National District and Santo Domingo West have debts with Duquesa that are nearing RD$200 million and that this is the cause of the accumulation of garbage throughout the city. Carvajal Louis, Batista and Ozuma, the mayors of Santo Domingo North, Santo Domingo East and Boca Chica, told reporters that their municipalities do not owe any amounts to the refuse collection site. They said that the National District was supposed to pay RD$4 million monthly since this is the area that produces 52% of the refuse collected for Duquesa. The manager of the Duquesa Consortium told reporters that a lack of resources has forestalled their plans to convert the site into a sanitary landfill that will permit the operation of the airport at La Isabela.