Batac OKs sister city ties with 12 new cities

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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