VM KUA’S ACTIONS SUSTAINED THE Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) sustained Vice Mayor and Sangguniang Panlungsod presiding officer Bryan Kua’s decision when the later did not adjourn the regular session on February 7 right away despite the motion to adjourn by the majority while Dagupan City Mayor…

REVIEW OF ANNUAL BUDGETS OF 31 BARANGAYS THE members of the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod attempted to set public hearings on the annual budgets of the 31 barangays before proceeding further with its hearings on the city’s proposed 2023 budget but this was foiled by the members of…

FOR 21 INFRASTRUCTURES THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) approved on Monday a resolution authorizing Gov. Ramon Guico III to negotiate and enter into a loan agreement with the Land Bank of the Philippines in the amount of six billion pesos (P6,000,000,000.00) under the terms and conditions of the Omnibus Term Loan Facility (credit…

AFTER THE FEB 7 WALKOUT THE members of the majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod set another unprecedented action last Tuesday, February 14, never seen or done by any legislative body in the country, when they voted not only to disapprove the minutes but to delete the entire proceedings of…

AFTER VM KUA’S RELUCTANCE TO ADJOURN THE majority members of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod spurned the appeal of Mayor Belen Fernandez for unity and reconciliation and to pass both the 2023 annual budget and the Annual Investment Program when she addressed the legislative body in last week’s regular session, on February…

ANOTHER VIOLATION OF LGC THE majority in Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod rejected the minority bloc’s move to make the hearings on the annual budget and all its integral plans, including the Annual Investment Program for 2023, public and not as a closed-door committee hearings. Speaking for the majority, Councilor Alfie Fernandez…

DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez vetoed Ordinances Nos. 2053-2022 and 2054-2022 and returned these to the Sangguniang Panlungsod on January 19, 2023. Ordinance No. 2053-2022 sought to institutionalize the conduct of the Kalutan ed Dalan of the Dagupan Bangus Festival along the stretch of A.B. Fernandez Avenue while Ordinance No. 2054-2022,…

CITY LEGAL OFFICE ORDERED MAYOR Belen Fernandez has given the go-signal to City Legal Officer Aurora Valle to file charges against former city officials involved in the scholarship program of the past administration in her first meeting for the new year with the Local Development Council (LDC) on January 16,…

ONLY LGU IN REGION WITHOUT ANNUAL BUDGET A RANKING Department of the Interior and Local Government official confirmed that Dagupan City is the only local government unit in Region 1 that failed to adopt and pass its 2023 annual budget on deadline. Provincial DILG Director Virgilio Sison confirmed the status…

A PREMEDITATED ‘MURDER’ OF DAGUPENOS’ WELFARE DESPITE five hearings attended by six officials from the executive department and three others, the seven-man majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod submitted a report justifying their rejection of Supplemental Budget No. 1, a proposed ordinance (No. 0-817) that was certified as urgent by Mayor…