THE Bacolod City Council has passed the appropriation ordinance allocating P50 million for the city’s various essential needs, as requested by Acting Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson through Acting Vice Mayor and Presiding Officer Councilor El Cid Familiaran.
The said fund will be sourced from the Cumulative Operating Surplus under the general fund as certified by the city accountant Eduardo H. Ravena. The projects to be funded from the P50-million allocation include concreting of roads in various barangays (P30 million), construction of footwalk in various villages (P3 million), construction of covered court (P3 million), and lot acquisition for the public plaza of Barangay Bata (P1.5 million). Other projects included in the budget are financial aids to Barangay Granada for the construction of the village hall (P1 million), Bacolod City College projects (P1 million), Federation of Homeowners Associations Inc. for the water connection to Purok Paghidaet, Barangay Tangub and to Barangay Sum-ag at Purok Mahigugmaon (P500,000), Liga ng mga Barangay (P500,000), Youth Council (P500,000), and Philippine Councilors League (P800,000,00). The fund was also allocated for steel railings amounting to P400,000, maintenance and repair of traffic lights (P1 million), legislative projects and programs (P1.5 million), electronic scoreboard for various barangays (P1 million), repair and construction of tourism lights (P3.5 million), financial assistance to City Prosecutor's Office (P300,000), fuel and gasoline for Traffic Management Unit (P200,000) and improvement of public cemetery in Barangay Granada (P300,000). (CNC) Published in the Sun.Star Bacolod
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AFTER months of suspicions and jealousy, of unhappy partnerships, of questions and denials, it now appears that the political marriage of former Congressman Monico Puentevella (MOP) and the Force of Five (FOF), councilors Archie Baribar, El Cid Familiaran, Elmer Sy, Sonia Verdeflor and Catalino Alisbo, is heading towards political divorce.
I heard from the FOF and their supporters that they have only two reasons for doubting the leadership capacity and the fidelity of MOP to their political marriage: one, MOP listens more to his family and kin than to his ever loyal partners, the FOF, especially. This put a doubt to whether he is really sincere in building a team that will help him realize his vision and mission (if he has any at all), or if he is simply using the FOF for his political expediency. The FOF doubt on MOP has been aggravated by the undeclared yet so publicly exposed extra political relationship of MOP with businessman Vladimir Gonzales (VG) who lost miserably in the 2010 elections. There has been no admission on the part of MOP and his bright boys about the MOP-VG political tandem for 2013, although it is clear that the tandem is consciously and systematically being drawn and campaigned by their allied barangay captains and spin doctors and operators in the barangays since the first quarter of this year. The FOF are not blind and nor are they fools to the political under workings of MOP and his bright boys. It is clear to them that MOP has turned from a hero to a villain, a leader to a traitor, a team captain to a ship wrecker. MOP has all the right to choose his vice mayor. Fine. The FOF will not argue with that. What they hated is MOP's lack of professionalism, transparency and team work in dealing with such an important issue. He rammed his old time philosophy of expediency and politics of money to the FOF who have been known for their firm adherence to the principles of equality, justice, democracy and freedom. If they couldn't trust MOP while he is still desperately struggling to become a mayor and therefore needs more lieutenants and captains in his ranks, how can they trust him when he becomes a mayor with the same unchanged mentality, and pay all his political debts to people who have given him money and accommodated him for political expediency? I really pity MOP for missing one decision that could have transcended his being a political animal to a great leader and statesman. I question his bright boys and the political termites in his ranks for providing him wrong data, analysis and solutions to his political ambition. Worse, for constantly drawing to him situations and scenarios that only exist in the minds and pockets of his operators and bright boys. The whole thing simply is this: he gambled his vision and mission for the politics of expediency and money. He exchanged his most valuable partners, the principled FOFs with vast machinery and winning votes, for a rich businessman who many believed has only been seduced to politics because of money, not his vision and mission. Poor MOP, he misses another opportunity for a shot at greatness for the simple reason that he does not understand so well what political marriage is. In marriage, the rule is always this: independence is mutual, dependence is equal, and obligation is reciprocal. In political marriage, it is the same. Just add: personal interest is permanent. Again, I still wish MOP to discern his journey, and seek for God's grace. With God, nothing is impossible. By Karl G. Ombion Published in the Sun.Star Bacolod THE Bacolod City Council passed on second reading an ordinance requesting the establishment of a comprehensive and sustainable development and shelter program and services for poverty alleviation of informal settlers of Bacolod City.
The ordinance was authored by Councilor El Cid Familiaran and co-authored by Councilors Dindo Ramos, Caesar Distrito, Em Ang, Mona Dia Jardin, Archie Baribar and Roberto Rojas. The ordinance likewise provides for the creation of a Bacolod Local Housing Board, which will monitor all evictions and demolitions in the city. It said the housing board in coordination with the City Planning and Development Office will create a City Registration Committee, which will conduct a survey of the underprivileged and homeless citizens in Bacolod City, including the marginalized fisherfolk. by Carla N. CanetSun.Star Bacolod An ordinance establishing a comprehensive and sustainable development and shelter program and services for poverty alleviation of informal settlers of Bacolod City, was passed by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod on second reading Wednesday.
The ordinance, authored by Councilor El Cid Familiaran and co-authored by Councilors Dindo Ramos, Caesar Distrito, Em Ang, Mona Dia Jardin, Archie Baribar and Roberto Rojas, provides for the creation of a Bacolod Local Housing Board that will monitor all evictions and demolitions. It said there are innumerable national laws, presidential executive orders and proclamations, memoranda, circulars, local executive orders, ordinances and resolutions, aimed to provide adequate program and services for the poor and homeless citizens, adding that the city needs to come up with a comprehensive sustainable shelter program and services to protect the basic rights of the homeless informal settlers against eviction, demolition, and upon transfer to relocation sites or in a place of their choice. It said the BLHB in coordination with the City Planning and Development Office will create a City Registration Committee which will conduct a survey of the underprivileged and homeless citizens in Bacolod City, including the marginalized fisherfolk within six months from the effectivity of the ordinance. The committee will include two representatives from non-government organizations servicing the urban poor in the city, it also said. For planning purposes, the Bacolod Local Housing Board in coordination with the City Assessor’s Office will conduct an inventory of all lands in Bacolod, especially those that are occupied by informal settlers, the ordinance said. Board will be composed of the mayor as chairman, Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Urban Poor and Relocation chairman, and representatives from Gawad kalinga, Habitat for Humanity, three representatives from an NGO working for urban poor upliftment, three representatives from the Bacolod Urban Poor Council, a representative from the City Planning and Development Office and Bacolod Housing Authority.*CGS BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO Visayan Daily Star |
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