SP Chairman Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson has declared at the Dec. 22 SP Session that the 20l0’s last session shall be held on Dec. 29 at 10:00 a.m.
There was a choice between Dec. 28 or 29 but the body finally decided to have it on Dec. 29 in the light of a very busy week for the city officials. Other days were likewise suggested and for a while the group had dilly-dallied but ultimately saw that the best time would be Dec. 29 which is expected to clean up remaining issues and items for floor debate. Several vital matters took center stage on Dec. 22 or prior to the final session, with the newly-approved 2011 budget brought before the body by Councilor Al Victor Espino, Appropriations and Finance Committee Chairman and Councilor El Cid Fami-liaran’s Jai Alai proposal as sizzling hot issues. Councilor Archie Baribar had to ask clarifications about the budget before he finally went along with the approval. There was a long recess, following lengthy deliberations. The proposal on whether to allow the controversial Jai Alai in the city met highly-mixed opinions. It shall be taken up in today’s (Dec. 29) ultimate SP session simply a few days before the turn of the year. Meanwhile, Vice Mayor Sayson had cited the city’s 900 casual plantilla workers and about 1,300 job order hands plus the city’s compliance of the Salary Standardization Law, benefiting regular employees, in relation to the budget. He recalled that 2 years ago, there was a cap on the number of job order workers, which he himself authored, but that it was lifted paving the way to an increased budget for personal services. Thereafter, "there’s no more hindrance to the number of hired job order workers," he pointed out. In a separate development and in the thrust to beef up the city’s revenues, Councilor Espino revealed in a side interview that residential, commercial and agricultural taxes would be a proposed l.65% tax, instead of the previously suggested 2% tax (during a CREBA forum of realtors guested in by Espino) on the assessed value of all real properties whether residential, commercial or agricultural. This year’s current tax rate is only 1.5%. Espino pointed out that the latest proposed l.65% tax was taken up on Dec. 8, 20l0 in an Executive-Legislative Caucus at Planta Hotel.*(Willy Gutierrez) Negros Daily Bulletin
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