An old ordinance may settle boundary spats
Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez said city council staff had unearthed an old ordinance passed by previous legislative council of Dagupan that can help settle boundary disputes between and among barangays.
Fernandez earlier ordered her staff to conduct a research on archived ordinances even as the city council formed itself into a quasi-judicial body last Monday to hear the boundary dispute between Barangays Pogo Chico and Barangay IV.
She said the old ordinance found in the archives, dating back to the Spanish period, were the instrument that created the old barrios (now barangays) of Dagupan.
One setback, though, encountered from the research is that the old ordinance in Spanish, a language that is no longer spoken by anyone in the council or in the city hall.
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“We will hire translators to give us accurate reading of this ordinance,” said Fernandez as she thanked the SP secretariat for its diligence that led to the unearthing of the old ordinance from the archives in just a few weeks.
“If we can have this old ordinance translated, we can solve some of the boundary disputes today and minimize disputes in the future,” she said.
That was an old ordinance that designates 25 villages. There are currently 31 barangays in the city.
It was learned that four other barangays– Barangays I, II, III and IV were created in 1975 under Martial Law.
Aside from the dispute between Pogo Chico and Barangay IV, other boundary disputes involve Tapuac and Poblacion Oeste, and Bonuan Boquig and Bonuan Gueset.
Fernandez reported that in the first hearing of the administrative complaint of Barangay Tapuac (headed by Barangay Captain Jake Reyes) against Barangay Poblacion Oeste (headed by Barangay Captain Guillermo Vallejos), only the latter attended.
The SP plans to form a committee composed of the City Engineer, City Planning Officer, City Legal Officer, City Assessor, the Commission on Elections and the Sangguniang Panlungsod to resolve all these boundary disputes.—LM
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