Sept 25

Vice Mayor Sara Duterte was at City Hall as acting city mayor and our speaker pro-tempore Councilor Mabel Acosta had to leave for a conference in Dumaguete, so I was asked again to preside over our session yesterday.

Debated were several provisions of the proposed Shelter Code, the privatization of the Buhangin Public Market and the request for re-classification by Robinsons Land. The latter was the only item which called for the division of the house; with an 8-3 vote, the motion was lost. Read the blogger's accounts of this particular issue at Istambay sa Mindanaw and Alleba Politics

Other items discussed were under suspended rules, among which were: 34 barangay supplemental budgets; exemption of Medco from the signages Ordinance for the BIMP-EAGA conference; and various commendations.