By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff
Reporter
Batac City—For
the third time, measures sponsored by Batac councilor Gwynet Quidang were “killed”
anew at the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
This time, six similar resolutions directed
to Sangguniang Panlalawigan members Albert Chua, Da Vinci Crisostomo, Ramon
Gaoat, James Paul Nalupta, Joel Garcia and ABC president Domingo Ambrocio were
all disapproved by the city council.
These resolutions are requests for donation
of movable sheds for tricycle terminals in Batac.
Quidang explained that several tricycle
drivers and operators from the different terminals approached her requesting
for movable sheds and since she has no barangay development fund (BDF) yet, she
opted to make these resolutions for the said requests.
But during the discussions, some of the
city councilors questioned the resolution saying there are more priorities that
need to be requested and not these movable sheds most especially that the city
government has the plan to identify all tricycle terminals for rehabilitation.
Relative to this, there must be uniform
terminals so that it will not become an eyesore on the streets.
However, these sane city councilors also
expressed their agreement on the resolution but it’s not yet the best time for
its approval and they should focus on other more pressing priorities.
As a result, the measures were disapproved.
Even with this, Quidang said, this will not
be her basis for not doing her job as a city councilor in proposing measures
which she believes is for the betterment of the public.
It was learned that this is the third batch
of her resolutions that were disapproved by the city council.
Earlier her resolutions requesting the
Mariano Marcos State University – College of Arts and Sciences for the conduct of
free computer literacy training program for the barangay health workers (BHW),
barangay nutrition scholars (BNS) and the barangay tanods in the city was also
disapproved.
Also resolutions requesting Rep. Imelda R. Marcos
(2nd district, Ilocos Norte), Senator Antonio F. Trillanes, Senator
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Committee Chairman on Civil Service and Professional
Regulation of the House of Representatives Andres D. Salvacion to file a Bill
in Congress for the granting of civil service eligibility to qualified barangay
tanods was again disapproved.
Reacting to this, Batac Vice Mayor and
council presiding officer Ronald Allan M. Nalupta felt sad with what is
happening at the city council right now.
Nalupta wishes and hopes that the city
councilors would prioritize public service over political differences if there
are any.
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