• CHERYL G. CRUZ
The Sangguniang Panlungsod of Bacolod won second runner-up in the national search for 2023 Local Legislative Award (LLA), high-urbanized category, and took home P50,000 in cash prize.
Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran, and councilors Jude Thaddeus Sayson, Celia Matea Flor, Simplicia Distrito, and Jason Isidro Villarosa, along with Hennessy Gasataya of the Department of the Interior and Local Government Western Visayas, received the awards during the yearend assembly of the Philippine Councilors League (PCL) at the World Trade Center in Pasay City Dec. 5.
The Bacolod SP also received a Plaque of Recognition as national finalist, and “in recognition of its significant accomplishments in local legislation that ultimately contributed to the attainment of desirable socio-economic and environmental outcomes that benefitted the community and enhanced the development of the local government unit”.
The event was organized by the PCL, DILG, and the Vice Mayors League.
Bacolod was up against 11 other highly-urbanized cities in the national LLA. Quezon City was eventually named the champion, and Mandaue in Cebu as first runner-up, the SP said.
The Bacolod SP was the regional winner for Western Visayas, while San Carlos City in Negros Occidental competed with 12 other sanggunians in the component city category.
The LLA was launched in 2006 by the PCL and the DILG.
“The 2023 LLA recognizes the exemplary performance of city and municipal sanggunians from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2022…and accords official recognition to SPs that excel in the enactment of ordinances and resolutions that ultimately contribute to the attainment of desirable socio-economic and environmental outcomes,” DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos said in Memorandum Circular 2023-092. | CGC
