By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff
Reporter
Batac City—Members
of this city’s Sangguniang Panlungsod unanimously approved the resolutions
inviting the 12 newly created cities in the country to forge a Sister-City Relationships
with them. It also enjoined the said new cities to be represented by their
respective mayors as Batac would also be represented by Batac Mayor Jeffrey
Jubal Nalupta.
The newly created cities whose cityhood status
was also approved in 2007 along with Batac are the cities of El Salvador in
Misamis Oriental; Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte; Guihulngan, Negros Oriental;
Mati, Davao Oriental; Bayugan, Agusan del Sur; Tabuk, Kalinga; Lamitan,
Basilan; Bogo, Quezon; Borongan, Eastern Samar; Tandag, Surigao del Sur;
Catbalogan, Samar; and Baybay, Leyte.
Batac has already established a sister city
ties with Carcar and Naga, both in Cebu province. A similar tie was also forged
by Batac with Tayabas of Quezon province.
Batac councilor Florencio Laud, who
sponsored the measure said, the approval of these resolutions is the main
requirement in for two cities to be able to bind themselves as sister cities.
With the approval of these resolutions,
Laud said they would now wait for the first city to respond and it would be the
mayor who would furnish their itinerary.
He hopes that with the approval of these
resolutions, the identified cities would pass the similar resolution.
In an earlier interview with Mayor Nalupta,
he said the League of the 16 newly created cities decided to form sister-city
relationships with each other and they started it last year.
The mayor said that with the approved
resolutions, Batac officials would be able to go to the identified cities to
formalize the sisterhood ties and for the said city to also visit Batac for a
similar signing here.
During the voting it was decided that all
members of the city council, including the presiding officer, will be named as
main sponsors of the resolutions.
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