Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) yesterday, to request the Office of the Mayor, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) and the Bacolod Traffic Authority (BTAO), to implement city Ordinance 356 series of 2004, otherwise known as an Ordinance regulating noise pollution in the city of Bacolod.
Familiaran said, "Among the pollution-considered hazardous to living creatures, especially humans is noise pollution. Noise is generally considered as unwanted sound which produces unpleasant effects and discomfort on the hearing of the people. And, while it (sound) is indispensable to us and in our everyday lives, however `noise’ has never been associated as essential to us." He also cited the fact that recently there were complaints from people in our communities against noise pollution caused by vehicles, particularly motorcycles, where some riders remove the mufflers resulting to excessive noise, and do not only annoy people but pose destruction to them. Therefore, the SP of Bacolod City approved during its session yesterday, to request the Environment & Natural Resources Office (ENRO), BTAO and BCPO thru the Office of the City Mayor to implement City Ordinance #356, series of 2004.* by Edith Colmo Negros Daily Bulletin
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Lead convenor of the "Solo Parent Advocates in Negros" (SPAIN) Maria Teresa "Matet" Lozada, in a press conference held March 14, 2014, sealed partnership with Councilor El Cid Familiaran in implementing Ordinance 550 to the 61 Barangays of Bacolod City. ‘SPAIN OF FAMILIARAN’. Lead convenors of the "Solo Parent Advocates in Negros" (SPAIN) -- Maria Teresa "Matet" Lozada on March 14, 2014 sealed a partnership with Bacolod City Councilor El Cid Familiaran in implementing Ordinance 550 by handing the symbolic Troll Tinn bottle. Also in photo are (left to right) Co-Convenors Brgy. 41 Kagawad Sally Penuela, Analia Villegas, Moonyen Montelibano, Rose Lorilla, Lozada, Lilia Orsos, Susan Grandeza. Not in photo are Susan Seva and Dr. Bernie Eres.* (Gil Severino photo) "Isa-isahon ko gid ang 61 Barangays sang Bacolod…the entire Bacolod City’s 61 Barangays will be covered. In a one-on-one approach, Solo Parents will be organized just like the senior citizens and people with disabilities," Lozada said.
She added, "In fact, as I am speaking to you now, volunteers are now mobilized in various puroks and barangays. They are speaking about leading productive lives as Solo Parents to their children." Principally authored by Familiaran, Bacolod City Ordinance 550 is an "Ordinance institutionalizing the programs and services to Solo Parents and their children"; Lozada and a group of Solo Parent Advocates committed themselves to be harbingers of benefits enshrined in the ordinance. "Only a single parent, male and female or mom and dad, can understand the plight of a fellow single parent and Councilor Familiaran’s authored Ordinance 550 has all the necessary framework to assist them cope with difficulties thus ensure their children’s welfare and future," Lozada explained to media gathered last Friday at the Negros Press Club. She clarified that Ordinance 550 is not gender biased thus the involvement of both male and female advocates seeking to see a more productive and empowered family led by a male or female parent left alone to tend children due to death, separation, circumstances like rape, custodial or adoption. Lozada disclosed that a follow-up "inter/intra-netizen" press conference-symposium will be held soon; it will be a convergence of government agencies, private citizens, Academe, NGOS, POs, government officials and the Tri-media. Among the benefits extended to these individuals stipulated in the Familiaran’s Ordinance 550 and detailed during the press conference are "Employment Related Benefits to Solo Parents", which are: Parental leave of not more than seven working days WITH PAY in addition to leave privileges under existing laws; flexible working schedules subject to prior arrangements with department heads; and legal sanctions to employers found guilty of discrimination relative to Republic Act 8972 or the Solo Parent Welfare Act. Programs and services to solo parents also provided in Ordinance 550 are skills and livelihood training assistance through the City Cooperative and Livelihood Development Center (CCLDO), livelihood and skills development programs of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), the Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Department of Social Services and Development (DSSD) assistance through the SEA-K or self-empowerment assistance-Kaunlaran.*(Gil Alfredo B. Severino) Negros Daily Bulletin Local News: SP to AVM Bernardo Engineering: Stop Additional Sevices Fees at Slaughter House3/14/2014 Members of the Bacolod Meat Vendors Association have expressed sigh of relief when the Sangguniang Panlungsod resolved yesterday during the session to issue cease and desist order on AVM Bernardo Engineering to stop charging additional charges to the meat vendors who have their animals slaughtered at the Bacolod Slaughter House.
AVM Bernardo Engineering was contracted by the Bacolod City government during the adminsitration of then mayor now cong. Evelio Leonardia to handle the operation of the Bacolod City Slaughter House on a Build-Operated-Transfer (BOT) Scheme. For 6 years now, AVM has been operating the slaughterhouse, and all animals for sale of meat are slaughtered at the said slaughter house. However, the problem arises when AVM started to charge the meat vendors for additional charges by passing on to them the 12% value added tax aside from the P2.50 per kilo slaughtering fee. According in the complaint aired by Michael Yusingco, president of the vendors, who appeared before the SP yesterday, AVM started the excessive charges on the first week of February 2014. Aside from passing on to the meat vendors the 12% VAT, AVM also include the extremeties, bones, legs, horns and internal organs in charging the meat vendor the slautering fee. Before, only the meat was charged with such fees, which cost them maximum of P400.00 a day only. But now, with the inclusion of the internal organs and extremities, would cost them P4,000.00 more or less daily. Mr. Jerson Juarez, director of the vendors association said, before AVM Bernardo imposed the increased charges of slaughtering fee, it should have observed the provisions in the memorandum of agreement (MOA), Article 3 section 16, that "it shall be allowed to recommend for the adjustment of slaughter and delivery services provided that any increase shall be not more than 12% compounded, and shall be reasonable and justified by the unavoidable increase in the actual cost of operation and only upon the approval and concurrence of the Sangguniang Panlungsod." Hence, Councilor El Cid Familiaran, supported by Councilors Caesar Distrito, Ana Marie Palermo, Sonya Verdeflor, Alex Paglumotan, and Archie Baribar, resolved that the SP shall issue the cease and desist order on the AVM Bernardo Engineering to temporarily stop the charging of additional fees on its slaughtering fees to the meat vendors, including the 12% VAT. To recall, during the committee hearing in February 24, 2014, by the Markets and Slaughter House Committee chaired by Coun. Sonia Verdeflor, AVM Bernardo which wasrepresented by Plant Manager Glorydee Cometa and Legal Counsel Atty Marvin Tanada, manifested their intention to impose the 12% VAT which the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) imposes upon them starting last year. The 12% VAT can be passed on to the customer/buyer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code. However, the Meat Vendors Association in Bacolod City, represented by its President Michael Yusingco, manifested their opposition because it willl be an additional burden. He said at present the cost of pork is P190.00-P200.00/kilo and the cost of beef is P220.00/kilo. If the 12% VAT will be shifted to them the cost of pork will increase to P223.00/kilo and the cost of beef to P226.00/kilo, to the disadvantage of the consuming public. If a meat vendor has 4 hogs and 1 cattle to be slaughtered he pays more than P50,000.00 a year aside from payment for the slaughtering fees. He also said, MOA between the City and AVM during the last administrations has been favoring AVM, but no protection to the meat vendors, no protection for the city and consequently no protection for the B.I.R. "It is the only the Bacolod slaughterhouse and compared to other AA slaughterhouses in Negros, that charges the highest fees. The meat vendors have no choice but to go to AVM because there is a MOA. . AVM also charges us the cost of plastics while the vendors do not charge their customers the cost of packing. Verdeflor’s committee reports that the meat vendors said, they were not accorded AA handling of their slaughtered meat particularly on the delivery. They said AVM delivers only in one area at an agreed schedule of delivery from 11:00 P.M. – 1:00 A.M. and that while AVM had been operating for more than five years, they were told that it has no delivery truck. However, per their inquiry at the L.T.O. , AVM has 4 trucks- (1) registered in the name of AVM Bernardo (RGF 163); (1) registered in the name of Nelson Lim Golpeo (RGA 814); (1) registered in the name of Alberto Wong (RGH 960) and (1) registered in the name of Glorydee Cometa (KFM 257). Furthermore, there are times that AVM delivers their meat already spoiled because it has no cold storage room. They also pay additional stockyard fee of P5.00-P10.00/day if their hogs remain in the slaughterhouse unslaughtered. They also have concerns about AVM’s waste water treatment. Therefore they are asking the City Mayor’s Office to review the MOA with AVM because they believe that there are so many violations committed by AVM aside from the 12% VAT that they are imposing upon the meat vendors. Considering that Mayor Puentevella was present during the committee hearing, he said, if AVM will not comply, it will force the city to do some drastic measures to protect the meat business in Bacolod City. He also said that if AVM will shift the 12% VAT to its customers the end users will ultimately be affected and it is not good for our people. Then the city will be forced to come into the picture and to use its authority to terminate the MOA, or in the alternative have the MOA amended and negotiate with AVM that the latter continue to operate but not exclusively, which means that the city can seek other alternatives so that the meat vendors can choose where to have their hogs and cattle slaughtered. The resolution of the SP yesterday to issue cease and desist order on AVM Bernardo Engineering to stop charging additional fees to the meat vendors somehow eased the tension among the meat vendors.* by Edith Colmo Negros Daily Bulletin The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) approved on third and final reading last Wednesday an ordinance naming the City High Mansilingan Road as Vicente T. Remitio Avenue.
The ordinance, authored by Councilors El Cid Familiaran, Archie Baribar and Jocelle Batapa–Sigue pays tribute to the man who was a tireless civic leader, religious worker, brilliant lawyer, scholar, student leader, debater, acclaimed orator and a recipient of thirty distinctions and honors, including an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws and Honoris Causa conferred by his alma mater, the Central Philippine University. Vicente Remitio was appointed Mayor by the late President Manuel Roxas in November 25, 1946 and held the position until October 3, 1948. He established the Bacolod City High School, Burgos and Libertad Public Markets and the Bacolod City Slaughterhouse projects, which until today continue to serve the people of Bacolod City. The former Mayor was guided with the principles of thriftiness, honesty, discipline and an abiding faith in God. He helped organize the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA), Negros Press Club and the Parenthood Movement of Negros Occidental and was an active member and past president of the Rotary Club of Bacolod, the Convention of the Philippine Baptist Churches and other numerous organizations and associations. In 1955, he was elected as no. 1 councilor of the city. Because of his sterling qualities of honesty, sincerity, devotion and commitment to serve the city, he was recognized and made a recipient of the "Ang Banwahanon Awardee for Public Service," the highest award given to a Bacolodnon by the city government. His selfless dedication to the city prompted a leading national magazine, the Philippine Free Press, to dub him in a cover story "Service at a Sacrifice". The authors of the ordinance said that his contribution to our city deserves appropriate recognition, and naming one of our major thoroughfares after him is a fitting tribute by the present and future generation who appreciates with great esteem his legacy.* Negros Daily Bulletin Aksyon Radyo Bacolod’s socio civic arm Operation Tulong Task Force in cooperation with the Provincial Health Office - Negros First Provincial Blood Center and Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) recently held a bloodletting activity dubbed as "Dugo mo, Kabuhi Ko 2014," last Friday, February 14 at the Negros Occidental Multi Purpose Activity Center and was able to generate 117 units of blood.
Supporting the bloodletting activity were the John B. Lacson Colleges Foundation, Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, 303rd Infantry Brigade-Philippine Army, BJMP-NODJ, Bacolod Convention Baptist Bible College, MID Security Agency, Barangays 40, 26, 23, Handumanan, Taculing and Banago, Nature’s Spring Water Resources, Inc., Bacolod Councilors El Cid Familiaran, Jun Gamboa as well as the employees and drama talents of Aksyon Radyo Bacolod. OTTF Chairman Art Tayhopon, said the blood collected will definitely be of huge help for indigent patients who often troop to the station which is incidentally located in front of a government hospital. Members of Operation Tulong Task Force are Art Tayhopon, Wilma Sugaton, Nona Magbanua, Sunshine Lacson, Felix Campaniel Jr., Henry Espulgar and Johnny Buguina III.* Negros Daily Bulletin The Sangguniang Panlungsod of Bacolod City passed a resolution Wednesday congratulating two students of the University of Saint La Salle (USLS) in the city for developing a web application that became the South East Asian winner of Google’s international contest. Franz Sarmiento and Katrina Tan Kit The team of USLS students Franz Sarmiento and Katrina Tan Kit, both from Bacolod, won the Google Cloud Developer Challenge 2013 for the "Social/Personal Productivity/Games/Fun" category for Southeast Asia, with their entry called "MishMash." Sarmiento developed the program, while Tan Kit designed its graphics. Both are graduating next month. Sarmiento, a Computer Science senior, is a candidate for Magna Cum Laude, while Tan Kit, an Information Technology senior, is a candidate for Cum Laude. The two won a $20,000 cash prize, while their university received a grant of $18,000 for being an all-student team. Of the 10 finalists in their category, eight were teams of professional developers. The resolution was authored by Councilor El Cid Familiaran and Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue. There were 434 teams worldwide who joined the Google Cloud Developer Challenge held from Sept. 4, 2013, until January 5, 2014. The results of which were announced on January 28, 2014. The contest engaged developers to effectively utilize Google’s very own Cloud Computing Platform for building next-generation apps. MishMash was among the 24 international winners in two categories: "Enterprise/Small Business Solutions/Education/Not for Profit," and "Social/Personal Productivity/Games/Fun." There were two winners from each region: "India," "Latin America," "Middle East and North Africa," "South East Asia," "Sub-Saharan Africa," and "United States, Europe and the Rest of the World."* (Danny B. Dangcalan & Edith Colmo) Negros Daily Bulletin The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed a resolution requesting acting Bacolod City Police Director Senior Superintendent Edgardo Ordaniel, through the Office of the City Mayor, to assign police personnel at the city’s public markets.
The resolution was proposed by Councilor El Cid Familiaran, Chairman of the Committee on Police, Security and Jail Management and Penology. "The serious efforts of the city to address disorder in and around the markets that have been aggravating both traffic and market congestions have brought to the fore the preparedness of our personnel-in-uniform for an emergency response to any possible untoward incident that may happen there," Councilor Familiaran said. He added that the presence of policemen conducting "police visibility" at the Vendors’ Plaza, including the nearby Manokan Country, Libertad, Central and Burgos Markets will not only ward-off criminal elements there but will also safeguard vendors and market goers as well, thereby projecting safety and orderliness in the city’s markets.*(Bacolod City Mayor’s Office - Public Information Office) Negros Daily Bulletin In a surprise move in last Wednesday’s session, the "new majority" introduced a resolution that replaces Councilor Cesar Distrito and installed Councilor Archie Baribar as the new floor leader of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP).
The resolution, which likewise extended its appreciation to Distrito, who served as floor leader from July 2013 to February 5, 2014 was proposed by Councilors Archie S. Baribar, El Cid M. Familiaran, Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, Claudio Jesus Raymundo A. Puentevella, Ana Marie V. Palermo, Sonya M. Verdeflor, Wilson C. Gamboa Jr. and Noly Villarosa. "This is all politics. We are governed by the rule of majority and the position of floor leader will always be dependent on the Sangguniang Panlungsod," said Distrito, who at the same time, was surprised upon knowing that there was a resolution of thanks and added jokingly that "Una pa ang condolence antes sya mapatay" (Condolence was extended even before he was dead). He thanked the previous majority and his colleagues in the SP for giving him the mandate to serve as floor leader for the last seven months. His Committee On Laws, Ordinances And Good Government was also discharged of the correspondence regarding the amended consolidated internal rules of the Sangguniang Panlungsod which was referred to the SP as a whole, by a vote of 8–2 with Councilor Em Ang and Councilor Alex Paglumotan abstaining.* Submitted by webmaster Negros Daily Bulletin Bacolod City’s key executives faced Bacolod vendors yesterday at the Bacolod BAYS Center for a public hearing on the restoration of order in the sidewalks of the city. (In the photo) Mayor Monico Puentevella, SPM El Cid Familiaran, SPM Sonya Verdeflor, City Administrator Atty. Rolando Villamor, City Legal Officer Atty. Sarah Villamor and Secretary to the Mayor Ramonet Lastima.* (Owen S. Bayog/NDB photo)
(L-R) Bacolod Councilor El Cid M. Familiaran, Mayor Monico Puentevella, other city officials and police officers discuss increased police visibility, among other concerns during yesterday’s Bacolod City Peace and Order Council (POC) meeting at MassKara Hall 1 of the Bacolod City Government Center (BCGC) yesterday.*
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