DESPITE OPPOSITION WALKOUT DAGUPAN’S Sangguniang Panlungsod passed 14 ordinances and 10 resolutions during a special session that ran for less than five hours on December 12, a record accomplishment for the city’s lawmaking body, despite another walkout by four opposition councilors. Among the measures passed were ordinances: 1. Establishing the…

AFTER WALKING OUT OF 3 PREVIOUS SESSIONS OPPOSITION councilors who now compose the new minority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) did not attend the December 3 session in an apparent boycott that forced an adjournment and further delays in pending ordinances and resolutions. The four councilors staged walkouts in the…

ANOTHER DAGUPAN OPPOSITION SETBACK APPROPRIATION ordinances submitted by local government units (LGU) to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for review — bearing the official LGU seal, signatures of the Secretary and the Presiding Officer of the local council as well as the approval of the mayor — are…

MBTF ADMINISTRATION VINDICATED A Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Dagupan has denied the third case filed by the city’ opposition councilors against what they claimed to be the illegal passage of the 2023 budget by the five-member minority bloc on September 26, 2023, for lack of merit. In a 13-page…

NO MORE REENACTED BUDGET NEXT YEAR THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), under a new majority, passed on November 12 the city’s P1.61 billion proposed budget for 2025 along with the Annual Investment Program (AIP), allowing the administration of Mayor Belen Fernandez to proceed with the implementation of its programs at…

ORDER FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT THREE opposition councilors of Dagupan were placed under preventive suspension for 60 days in an Order of the Office of the President dated October 30, 2024, a copy of which was received by the Dagupan City Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) on November 5. The…

ADDITIONAL ONE-YEAR SUSPENSION VOIDED THE 90-day preventive suspension imposed on Urdaneta City Mayor Julio Parayno III by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) was considered “excessive” by a Regional Trial Court (RTC) as there was only one case filed against him. Parayno already served part of the suspension, which was executed on August…

PREEMPTIVE EVACUATION IMPLEMENTED THE Pangasinan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said the storm surge spawned by Typhoon  Kristine, emanating from the Lingayen Gulf and the West Philippine Sea affected the 12 coastal areas of Agno, Anda, Bani, Binmaley, Bolinao, Burgos, Alaminos City, Dagupan City , Dasol, Infanta, San…

SP MAJORITY BOYCOTTS SESSION ANEW AFTER attending a special session called by Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez on October 11, the seven majority councilors of the Sangguniang Panlungsod skipped the Oct. 15 regular session that set the proposed 2025 budget and Annual Investment Program (AIP) for first reading. Also, the Oct. 15…

COMPROMISED AGREEMENT REACHED THE establishment of the proposed Maternal and Children Hospital (MCH) in Dagupan City is pushing through after a compromise was reached during an October 7 meeting of city officials with the Department of Health (DOH) led by Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergerie. The meeting was attended by Mayor Belen…