TACLOBAN CITY – Agencies of national government invited by the Sangguniang Panlungsod do not need to ask permission from the city mayor to appear in the session of the city council in compliance to their request through a resolution.
This was according to City Vice Mayor Arvin Antoni as he clarified if it is necessary that invited guest of the city council must first go the Mayor’s Office and ask permission to appear in the city council session.
However, it is different to the situation of executive officials of the city government as they need first to ask permission to the chief executive per mandated on the executive order signed by the mayor and as included in the internal rules and regulations of the city council.
“There is a memorandum or office order (issued) by Mayor Alfred Romualdez mandating all officials under the executive department to ask permission from if they can grant our request if there are issues that needs to be answered or clarified by them,” said Antoni.
He added that in their 2007 revised internal rules and regulation the city council also included those city officials, executive department heads and other department heads request to make them appear in the city council must be forwarded to the city mayor’s office.
The reason for is, according to Antoni, is based on the provision of their revised internal rules, there might be some questions to the official of the city that “can be answerable through a letter which will not comply them to appear any more in the session hall.
Moreover, in what had happened in their last session this week, Antoni stressed that the Environmental Management Bureau does not need to go to the office of the city mayor to inform him that they will appear at the city council to make a presentation on the subject matter of sanitary landfill.
“The only time that they (representative of government instrumentalities and private entities) cannot present their presentation or answers our query is when there is lack of quorum and due to lack of time,” Antoni clarified.
To recall, during their regular session held last Wednesday, the EMB representatives were at the city council to do presentation on establishing sanitary landfill, in the presence of 11 city council members.
Through the request of the majority floor leader ,Councilor Edwin Chua, EMB was subjected to do their presentation after the city council finished to tackle their agenda.
However, after they discussed all the subject matter in the agenda, councilors who belongs to the majority bloc left the session hall one by one until only six of them were left.
With the presence of only six members and due to lack of quorum, Antoni was forced to adjourn the session due to lack of quorum
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