Bacolod City – Councilor El Cid Familiaran wants police visibility increased as criminals are getting bolder.
He cited the latest rape-slay of a 19-year-old student here and the shooting to death of a construction worker by a riding-in-tandem gunmen. He said he will raise the concern in the upcoming meeting of the City Peace and Order Council (CPOC). Familiaran, chairman of Sangguniang Panlunsod committee on public matters and security, is pushing the re-implementation of the Association of Barangay Council under Police Precinct (ABCUPP) to deter crimes. ABCUPP was implemented during the term of former mayor Luzviminda Valdez. He said it greatly lowered the crime rate in the city. It is a good anti-crime drive if the barangays could help by deploying 10 tanods (watchmen) to reinforce the policemen in establishing police presence in crime prone areas, he said. He noted the city lacks policemen, thus, volunteers are needed to maintain peace and order. However, he said his proposal will depend on the mayor. By: Dolly Yasa The Daily Guardian
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BACOLOD City – Concerned government agencies were asked to enforce the ordinance regulating noise pollution in the city after it was approved by the Bacolod City Council in its regular session last Wednesday.
In his resolution, Councilor El Cid Familiaran requested the offices of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Bacolod Traffic Authority, and Bacolod City Police hrough the Office of the City Mayor to enforce City Ordinance No. 356, Series of 2004 or “An Ordinance Regulating Noise Pollution in the City of Bacolod”. Familiaran noted in the resolution that noise pollution degrades the environment as well as negatively affect the people. “Among the pollution considered hazardous to living creatures, especially humans is noise pollution,” he said. “Recently there were complaints from a number of people in our community against noise pollution caused by vehicles, particularly motorcycles that have mufflers being removed by its owners, therefore creating excessive noise, which people find annoying and destructive.” By: Dolly Yasa The Daily Guardian THE Bacolod City Council recently approved on third and final reading an ordinance renaming the City High Mansilingan Road as Vicente T. Remitio Avenue.
According to the ordinance principally authored by Councilor El Cid Familiaran and Archie Baribar Sr., it is only befitting to recognize Remetio’s contributions to Bacolod City. Remetio, who was appointed mayor of Bacolod by President Manuel Roxas in Nov. 25, 1946, established under his term the Bacolod City High School, the Burgos Public Market& Libertad Market, and the Bacolod City Slaughterhouse projects, which until today continue to serve the people of Bacolod. The ordinance reads that the 1955 No. 1 councilor is also regarded for his various civic and religious works. He was a recipient of 30 distinctions and honors, including an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws and HonorisCausa conferred by his Alma Mater, the Central Philippine University. Remetio also helped organized the Young Men Christian Association, Negros Press Club, and Parenthood Movement of Negros Occidental. He was an active member and past president of Rotary Club of Bacolod, the Convention of the Philippine Baptist Churches and other numerous organizations and associations. The City High Mansilingan Road starts from the Junction of Police Station 6, Barangay Taculing to the Rotonda at the Junction of Murcia-Mansilingan Road, Barangay Mansilingan. The city is mandated to appropriate P100,000 for the installation of road marker and street signs. The ordinance is co-authored by Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue. The Daily Guardian BACOLOD City – A councilor of this city asked the Land Bank of the Philippines to provide an automated teller machine (NPC) at the New Government Center for the convenience of City Hall employees.
Councilor El Cid Familiaran said LBP is a government bank which sets up facilities in local government units to cater to its client government workers. With the transfer of the seat of power to the New Government Center, the City Hall employees have no access with Land bank’s ATM located at the City Hall Building. (Dolly Yasa) The Daily Guardian BACOLOD City – Bacolod City Rep. Evelio Leonardia called the renaming of Bacolod Government Center into People's House of the City of Bacolod “hypocritical”.
“It is a hypocritical move from someone who tried to sabotage its construction in the first place,” he said. The BGC was constructed during Leonardia’s last term as mayor. Leonardia’s successor Mayor Monico Puentevella announced the move to change BGC’s name to People’s House last month during his “Lamesa ni Mayor” program. Both city officials were present during the 78th Induction Ceremony of the Negros Press Club last Saturday. The two were both past presidents of the organization. Leonardia arrived earlier and sat down at the presidential table while Puentevella, who arrived later, chose to sit at the back with other guests. Leonardia scored the mayor’s move and said it was “a waste of precious official time and energies”. Even as Bacolod struggles with the successive tragedies caused by fires, he said Puentevella has not forgotten to mobilize the city council to rename the government center “for shallow and inappropriate reasons.” Leonardia stressed that the BGC has always belonged to the people, built on the vision of a modern, dynamic and prosperous city. “To rename it PHOBC repositions it differently, and creates confusion as to what it stands for and how it was built,” the solon said. Leonardia also recalled what he claimed was the Puentevella’s efforts to stop the BGC construction. “We will not forget Puentevella’s shameless efforts at delaying and stopping the construction of the Bacolod Government Center; the records of the many cases he and his henchmen filed against me for building the BGC. All these cases, however, have all been dismissed.” “Bacolod Government Center was the name that came about naturally and spontaneously from the people themselves, backed up by Local Government Code,” he stressed. In the hearts of our people, who sacrificed with me just so we can have a government building we can be proud of, the authentic name Bacolod Government Center is already enshrined, he stressed. “No one, not even the mayor, is going to take that away from them,” the Bacolod solon said. Earlier the majority block in the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod who are allied with Puentevella, approved on first reading the ordinance “Naming the public building known as the Bacolod City Government Center as the People's House of the City of Bacolod.” The ordinance is being proposed by Councilors Archie Baribar, El Cid Familiaran, Wilson Gamboa, Ana Marie Palermo, Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, Sonya Verdeflor, Claudio Puentevella and Noli Villarosa. By: Dolly Yasa The Daily Guardian |
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