THE Baguio City Council approved 373 ordinance and resolutions for the past six months, Vice Mayor Edison Bilog reported during the city hall flag raising ceremony last Monday, November 26.
Bilog added 92 ordinances and 281 resolutions were penned and approved since April this year.
Among these are the grant of a seven percent) amusement tax incentive from gross receipts of Baguio cinema admission fees that provide free movie admission to Baguio senior citizens and persons with disability (PWDs) residents, prohibiting truancy in the city, and providing local additional assistance to solo parents and their children in Baguio city.
Through approved ordinances, all jeepney lines are required to provide passenger service until 9 o’clock in the evening; the Brigada Eskwela in city schools is institutionalized, thus funded by the city government; and violence against women and their children (VAWC) desks are established in all 128 barangays of the city.
Public and private establishments should also provide basic life support services through trained personnel in cardiopulmonary resuscitation during emergencies and the Baguio City Creative Arts month celebration every November is institutionalized thus is allotted funds from city coffers.
The ordinance against profanity in schools, computer shops, arcades and other business establishments frequented by pupils/students in the city was also approved. The ordinance which upon approval became a subject of argument in social media was later proposed to be rescinded, as both sides insist on their right of expression.
In the City Council, the conduct of paperless sessions was institutionalized, saving cost on writing and printing supplies. Trees supposedly cut for paper are saved, thus we help the environment too,
Bilog said.
Legislative monitoring and the evaluation of ordinances and resolutions in the City Council was also approved.
Amnesty to qualified applicants for electric and water connections, as with amnesty for electrical connections to calamity victims, were approved.
Due to shortage of parking areas, applications for exemption for the conversion of spaces in buildings allotted for vehicles should not be granted, especially within the central business district. The practice of converting designated parking spaces into commercial stalls was noted in some establishments, thus the ordinance. (PR)