Domondon: Preserving the Past
IN LAST Monday’s regular session of the City Council a seemingly innocuous resolution authored by Honorable City Councilor Nicasio M. Aliping Jr. and adopted by the august body last April 16, 2012 inadvertently brought to light the urgent need and clamor by a lot of Baguio residents for the...
Domondon: Committee Report on SM Earth Balling Lost
AFTER much discussion and presentation of differing views on the issue of tree cutting and earth balling by Shoe Mart Baguio, the members of the august body in a collective decision failed to muster sufficient votes to approve a committee report of the whole bearing on the said matter.
Domondon: Wrong impression
THE City Council got back to business last Monday with seventy five items in their agenda to include urgent matters incorporated while the rules were suspended. Topping the list of urgent matters needing the action of the august body was the committee report on the cutting or earth balling of...
Domondon: The Season of Lent and Summer Vacation
THE Lenten season is a time for reflection, fasting, repentance, moderation and spiritual discipline. The very purpose of lent is to focus of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, his suffering and his sacrifices, his life and death, burial and resurrection.
Domondon: Trade fairs and SM
THE regular session of the City Council last Monday was a bit off of the usual stuff after issues were raised on the propriety of allowing still another trade fair to operate within Burnham Park on one hand, while approving the amended trade fair ordinance which seeks to prohibit the said...
Domondon: Sexual trafficking in the city
THE City Council held its second major public hearing and consultation with the people of Baguio during its regular session last Monday. Coming at the heels of an earlier public hearing conducted by the Committee on Health and Sanitation, Ecology and Environmental Protection concerning the plan...
Domondon: Council refers back trade fair proposals to the mayor
THE City Council during its regular session last Monday opted to refer back to the City Mayor a proposal for a trade exhibit at the Juan Luna Drive, Burnham Park.
Domondon: No Cutting Just Earth-Ball-SM
THIS was the firm reiteration of ShoeMart (SM) last Monday as it continued to defend its plan for an expansion project within its property at the Luneta Hill, Baguio City, during the second round of public hearing and consultation conducted by the City Council.
Domondon: All bets are off
HUMANKIND since time immemorial had the penchant for risk. From the time cavemen began ganging up on beasts to serve as food for the table, man gambled everything there is to gamble under the sun. It comes as no surprise then that right at this very moment, wheels are turning to fully implement...
Domondon: Circus at Melvin Jones; city budget approved
AFTER several weeks of intense deliberations and discussions on the annual budget of the City for CY 2012 the City Council finally gave its nod for its approval in the amended amount of P1,168,242,000.
Domondon: Budget deliberation overtime
THE City Council attempted mightily to finish deliberations on the annual budget of the City last Monday in order to move on to other important legislative matters awaiting its consideration but in the end the members of the august body had to settle with approving a majority of the proposed...
Domondon: SC Issues Writ Against City
THE SUPREME COURT in a January 17, 2012 resolution has finally issued a writ of kalikasan with a temporary environmental protection order (TEPO) against the City of Baguio and its government officials in relation to the Irisan controlled dumpsite facility. The order issued en banc by the SC also...
Domondon: Nearing the finish line
THE City Council in its second regular session last Monday finally deliberations on the income portion of the proposed annual budget of the City for CY 2012 with the approval and confirmation of the said income in the revised amount of One Billion One Hundred Sixty Eight Million Two Hundred...
Domondon: The IRA and the City Budget
LAST Monday’s regular session of the City Council was a surprise of sorts after members of the Local Finance Committee, appearing before the City Council in connection with the deliberations on the proposed City budget, recommended the withholding or reservation of five percent (5%) of the...
Domondon: No to Carnivals in the City
IN A bid to steer away from controversies arising from numerous and various proposals for the installment of carnivals in the City of Baguio during the Christmas season until the onset of the Panagbenga celebration, the City Council during its 41st regular session last Monday voted to deny three...
Domondon: Proposed carnival denied by Council
THE City Council deliberated on nineteen items last Monday during their fortieth regular session, presided over by Vice Mayor Daniel T. Farinas. The august body also began discussions on the proposed Executive Budget for the calendar year 2012 in compliance with the mandate of RA 7160 otherwise...
Domondon: Managing the city’s streetlights
THE discussion on the proposal for Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO) to assume management and maintenance of the City’s streetlights once again took center stage during the latest regular session of the City Council last Monday.
Domondon: Review the Area of Temporary Stay for the MILF
THE statement above is an appeal for the Government to immediately review and seriously study the grant of these so called Area(s) of Temporary Stay for armed members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The recent violent confrontation that took away the lives of nineteen soldiers of...
Domondon: Congratulations to our SCOFADs’!
IN ANOTHER rare opportunity to showcase the efforts and continuing contribution to society of the elderly in the City, our senior citizens once more took the reins of the local government last Monday under the city program of Senior Citizens Officials For A Day (SCOFAD).
In the City...
Domondon: City council takes two week break
WITH the senior citizens as well as the Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts taking over local government duties for a day during the next two succeeding Mondays, the members of the august body took pains to act upon, deliberate and dispose of some of the most important matters in their agenda, during...
Domondon: Council pushes for Irisan retaining wall investigation
THE members of the City Council during their thirty second regular session last Monday affirmed and adopted a proposal by Honorable City Councilor Fred L. Bagbagen calling for an investigation by experts of the damaged retaining wall at the Irisan controlled dump facility.
Domondon: Protech explains to the City Council
NOTHING is more frustrating than relying on a promise kept unfulfilled. This is the perception that sunk in as members of the august body grilled Mr. Luis Arquiza Lu, Jr. Vice President of the PROTECH Machinery Inc. during their thirty first regular session last Monday in connection with the...
Domondon: Irisan dumpsite inquiry
THE City Council held its thirtieth regular session last Monday with the Honorable City Vice Mayor Daniel Farinas as presiding officer and with seventy two items in the agenda.
The deliberations conducted by the members of the august body centered on item two in the agenda which is the...
Domondon: Wrong timing, wrong signal
THE administration of President Benigno Aquino III is being lauded for its continuing and determined drive to rid the government and the nation of corruption. Everybody agrees, at least those who want a clean government, that what is needed is an iron hand to stamp out corruption. Nobody...
Domondon: Approving matters on an Omnibus motion
THE CITY Council held its twenty ninth regular session last Monday presided over by Honorably City Vice Mayor Daniel T. Fariñas and with seventy one items in the agenda.
