THE city council during last Monday’s regular session has approved significant measures on third and final reading. The council approved the consolidated Proposed Ordinance Nr. 0039-11 of Councilor Peter Fianza and co-authored by councilors Faustino Olowan, Benny Bomogao and Mylen Yaranon entitled “Institutionalizing local government support to Brigada Eskwela in the City of Baguio.”
Fianza is a member-in-charge of the city schools division and also the chairman of the Committee on Education, Culture and Historical Research. The committee, however, emphasized that the institutionalization of the budget program under the Special Education Fund (SEF) cannot be done as suggested by the city budget officer considering discussions on the matter as reflected during a previous regular session sometime in 2017.
The council also passed with finality the ordinance institutionalizing the Baguio City Creative Arts Festival in the month of November of every year. The said ordinance conveyed that the city was declared a Creative City in the field of Crafts and Folk Art by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) on October 31, 2017 and joined the ranks of 180 cities from 72 countries to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), the first in the country. By institutionalizing the said festival, it shall now be funded out of the city’s internal budgetary allocations, notwithstanding funds that could be sourced out from private sponsors and financial donors.
And finally, the council approved the measure which requires all private and public establishments to provide basic life support services by employing personnel trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation who can administer CPR and automated external defibrillators in the event a customer/client needs the same in their respective establishment.