THE Bacolod City Council approved a resolution requesting President Rodrigo Duterte to declare June 18 as a special non-working holiday in the city.
This is in commemoration of the signing of Commonwealth Act 326, also known as the Charter of the City of Bacolod, in line with the year-long celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Bacolod.
The resolution, authored by Councilor Caesar Distrito, was approved during the regular session Wednesday, June 6.
Distrito, chairperson of the City Council committee on laws, said on June 18, 1938, President Manuel L. Quezon signed Commonwealth Act 326 that created the City of Bacolod.
He said such event is significant to the Bacolodnons that the City Government has prepared activities to commemorate and give importance on the date by virtue of City Ordinance 588, entitled "an ordinance commemorating every June 18 and every year thereafter as the date of the signing into law of Commonwealth Act No. 326 otherwise known as "the Charter of Bacolod City."
"This August body earnestly appeal to His Excellency, President Duterte to declare June 18 as a special non-working holiday in Bacolod for us Bacolodnons to feel and give prominence to this very important milestone," he added.
Distrito noted that a proposed legislation, House Bill 7044, which seeks to declare June 18 of every year as a special non-working public holiday in Bacolod, authored by Representative Greg Gasataya, was already approved on final reading before the House of Representatives and the latest is that it was already approved on second reading in the Senate.
Distrito said that on its 80th celebration, it is fitting that June 18 should be declared a special non-working holiday in order to instill to the residents of Bacolod, particularly its youth, that the City of Bacolod was indeed created on June 18, 1938.
