Baguio Sangguniang Panlungsod accomplishments, Reported

April 27, 2022 Metro BLISTT

Vice-Mayor Faustino Olowan said members of the city council passed a total of 31 ordinances and 162 resolutions from January 3 this year to the present including an ordinance institutionalizing the Saleng Festival in the Summer Capital.
During the flag-raising rites at City Hall, on April 18, he said the august body also conducted five public consultations through its various standing committees and monitored and evaluated 14 existing ordinances and resolutions during the period.
Other salient legislation adopted include the parking ordinance that prescribes general guidelines to be followed by all barangays when crafting their parking policies; an ordinance creating the Baguio City Historical Council for the proper accounting of the city’s rich history and recording of significant events; and a measure creating the Gawad Lingap Program that aims to address the alarming dropout
rates and granting financial assistance to qualified students.
An ordinance institutionalizing the Baguio City Cooperative and Development Council to further empower cooperatives in the city; a measure creating the Community-Based Peer Teaching and tutorial program for local students that encourages and engages the community in helping learners day ending the zero active case glee and amid the threat of new surges looming this May, the analysts were optimistic.
“We’re better prepared now more than ever. With testing, we find out who is infected. With isolation, we prevent them from infecting others. With contact tracing, we figure out the people with whom they’ve been in contact. With quarantines, we prevent these contacts from infecting others. With vaccination, we decrease the risk of long COVID, hospitalizations, and death,” Panes said.
“With the continued and sustained efforts from the local government and the culture of discipline among the citizens in Baguio, we believe that this trend (of having zero cases) will continue,” Addawe said.
Aileen P. Refuerzo