[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=”]
[av_heading heading=’ City dads back June Charter Day ‘ tag=’h3′ style=’blockquote modern-quote’ size=’30’ subheading_active=’subheading_below’ subheading_size=’15’ padding=’10’ color=” custom_font=”]
BY MAE SINGUAY
[/av_heading]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”]
Monday, October 16, 2017
[/av_textblock]
[av_textblock size=’18’ font_color=” color=”]
BACOLOD City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) fully supported House Bill (HB) No. 5875, or the Act Declaring the 18th Day of Month of June of Every Year as Special Non-Working Public Holiday in the City of Bacolod to be known as “Bacolod City Charter Day.”
Rep. Greg Gasataya filed the bill before the House of Representatives on June 13.
Last week, the SP approved a resolution expressing support for the passage of the house bill.
HB No. 5875, if passed, will amend Republic Act 7724, which declares Oct. 19 as the Bacolod City Charter Day.
Councilor Caesar Distrito – author of the resolution – said the house bill will correct a historical distortion.
Distrito said it was on June 18, 1938 when then president Manuel Quezon signed Commonwealth Act No. 326 making Bacolod a city.
It was Oct. 19 on the same year that the city inaugurated its first mayor, he added.
Distrito believed that this caused the confusion over Bacolod’s charter day.
“Next year, this capital city will be celebrating its 80th charter anniversary. It is high time to correct history,” Distrito said.
On May 2, 2012, the SP passed City Ordinance No. 588 directing the commemoration of the Bacolod City Charter Day every June 18.
Distrito said celebrating Bacolod’s cityhood in June will give it more highlight than in October, the MassKara Festival month.
Distrito said over the years, the festival “overshadowed” the charter day commemoration.
Meanwhile, Gasataya said HB No. 5875 was approved in its first reading last week.
He added that the SP resolution is one of the requirements for the bill’s passage at the House committee level.
Gasataya hopes the bill will be in plenary next month./PN
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]
