BACOLOD City Councilor Sonya Verdeflor, chairperson of the committee on markets and slaughterhouse, has initiated measures along with Councilor El Cid Familiaran to improve the collection of rentals from stalls and blocks from market vendors in the three public markets in the city.
She said the granting of 20 percent discount to stall and block lessees could help entice them to pay their rentals to the city promptly. Verdeflor requested earlier the City Administrator’s Office to furnish her the status of the Burgos Market vendors fire victims’ stalls/blocks and records of their stall rentals due needed for the proposed ordinance condoning their stall rentals from May 6, 2012 to present City Ordinance No. 407 provides under its Article 11, giving incentives to faithful payors which states, “Market stall awardees or lessees who have somehow managed to faithfully pay all their dues at current levels upon the passage of this ordinance shall be entitled to a 20 percent discount on their current rental obligations for the year 2006 up to 2011, or 5 years beginning with year 2006, for as long as they pay their dues on time in those year.” City Ordinance No. 583 dated March 14, 2012 entitled “An Ordinance Granting Twenty Percent Discount to Stall Awardees or Lessees who are Faithful Payors of their Monthly Block Lease Rental for One Year Only” in Relation to the Extension Granted under Article 2 of City Ordinance No. 407 dated July 6, 2006. City Ordinance No. 583 dated March 14, 2012 extended the grant of 20 percent discount to faithful payors for one year only, thus to encourage faithful compliance and prompt payments from market awardees/lessees, a big percentage of which goes to the Trust Fund earmarked for the repair and maintenance of the City’s Public Markets, the subject Ordinance was proposed. The stakeholders who attended the committee hearing including the Office of the City Administrator, agreed to support the passage of the proposed ordinance, seeing that the incentives continuously granted would ultimately redound to the benefit of the city’s public markets. By Carla N. Canet Sun.Star Bacolod
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