Mandaue City~ Comments and Complaints

[mexicanlady]

---

Ipa suspend ni Mayor Cortes ang 6 ka councilors.Maynta madayon ni suspend ang mga ugok nga konsehales oi para walay samokan.And one thing also, mayra ma disbar si Biano sa iyang kaso nga falsification ug forgery.

[reclamador]

Sunday, August 03, 2008
Suspend 6 in council: Jonas

MANDAUE City Mayor Jonas Cortes asked Malacañang to suspend members of
the council whom he accused of harassing him and more than 1,000
job-order employees of the City Government.

He identified them as Councilors Victor Biaño, Alfonso Albaño Jr.,
Noeleen Borbajo, Procopio Villanueva, Editha Cabahug and Emiliano Rosal.

Three months ago, the six councilors complained before the Office of
the President about Cortes' orders that, they said, broke the law.

Cortes said their preventive suspension will "deter them from doing
any further irreparable damage to the directly affected job-order
employees" and the City Government. He also asked Malacañang to
dismiss their complaint against him.

A preventive suspension is not a penalty, but is sometimes imposed to
keep incumbent officials from interfering with a pending investigation.

The mayor accused the six councilors of dishonesty, oppression, abuse
of authority and misconduct. He also said they violated the separation
of powers between the executive and legislative branches of government.

Cortes, however, did not include in the charge Vice Mayor Carlo
Fortuna and Councilors Diosdado Suico, Beethoven Andaya, Jefferson
Ceniza, Jimmy Lumapas and Sangguniang Kabataan Federation president
Gian Gobalani, who are also linked to the opposition.

According to the councilors' complaint filed last April 30, the mayor
misled the public by saying that the City Council no longer has the
authority to hire personnel because a provision of the Local
Government Code was amended.

Cortes, however, said that the complainants' withholding of the
salaries of job-order employees—by adding a provision in the
appropriation ordinance that requires a council resolution before
funds for salaries are disbursed—constitutes oppression, abuse of
authority and misconduct.

The mayor also charged the complainants with dishonesty for not
mentioning in their complaint the city legal officer's opinion that it
is the mayor who has the "sole and exclusive authority" over human
resources and development in his unit.

Cortes said that if the six councilors are suspended, they won't be
able to coerce him to enforce the "invalid provision" of the
appropriation ordinance.

In their complaint last April 30, Biaño, Albaño, Borbajo, Villanueva,
Cabahug and Rosal accused Cortes of ordering finance officials and
department heads to disregard a provision of the appropriation ordinance.

That provision requires an enabling resolution from the council before
"lump sum funds" can be disbursed.

But the mayor said this constituted interference and usurpation of the
chief executive's function. Requiring this enabling resolution from
the council is a strategy to paralyze his administration's fiscal
management, he said.

The complainant also pointed out the mayor's allegedly wrong
interpretation of Section 77 of the Local Government Code. The two
parties use as basis two different annotated versions of the Local
Government Code.

In the councilors' version, the hiring of employees must be authorized
by the City Council, while in the mayor's version it is the Civil
Service Commission that has that authority. (OCP)

[mexicanlady]

Sus, kalayo pa sa 2010 elections oist. Maka lagot kaayo ning mga bu-ang nga mga opposition vice mayor and councilors.Ilang binuhatan ipahid ni Jonas para sila mogawas nga mga maayong laki.Kita man gyud katag ani ba ig ka election 2010. Taga Mandaue, ayaw na gyud tawn ni botari ning mga tawhana.Mga marunong kaayo ning mga panuwaya.

[am_believer24]

nagkatag jud ang basura sa mandaue ay, makalagot.
daghan pa jud ug snatcher..

[yankee1264]

di nato ni cla mabasol ky dagko kaayo ni cla ug utang sa mga Owawno mao maski di sakto ila gibuhat
tungod sa utang paugat nalang cla..

[rigormortis]

angay rana ma suspend na sila
kanang editha cabahug ay pag election klaro kaau ang tikas pollwatcher bya mi
gpang check lgi kng gibutar ba siya sa iyang mga gibayran

[|nCuBabE]

Comment lng..

There are national roads in Mandaue wherein there are no signal lights..! The city has good revenue yet the government officials in the said city don't seem to recognize the need for signal lights in some areas where heavy traffic is really a pain in the ass!

[rAnzter]

^^ kana jud ako kalibogan sa mandaue..... mag lisud ko ug identify go naba or stop... huwat raku mo peepeep ang naa sakung luyo... haha kai pondir d.i ang red light.. haha

[boylaang]

sayop sa taga mandaue gi padaog nila c jonas cortes wala giiapil ang majority sa iya mga kuncihal ug bise mayor mura ug wala ma a u pagtudlo sa mayor sa pikas ciudad pero mas ok ron ky ang basura kuhaon naman 5 am kada adlaw jud dili pariha sa una na 9 am na dili pa jud kada adlaw

[reclamador]

Friday, August 22, 2008
Probe finds MCC breaking Ched graduate policies

MANDAUE City opposition councilor Victor Biaño is enrolled in Dr. Paulus Cañete's Mandaue city college (MCC), the only student in Masters in Public Management class, one of the findings revealed by the inventory committee who called for a press conference yesterday.

Dr. Josefino Ronquillo of the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) and the head of the "Inventory committee" also revealed that at a short span of two years, after it was established, the "old MCC" has produced graduates in doctorate, masters and bachelors degrees. The school even established an extension class in Hilongos town Leyte.

This he said is in violation of Ched Memorandum Order (CMO), but stopped short of recommending an investigation as it is the school's board of trustees according to him who decide what to do based on the inventory committee's findings.

And most of their graduates in the masters and doctorate programs said Ronquillo are employees and staff of the school, including Biaño who earned high grades.

Support

Biaño, the council's majority floorleader and one of the opposition councilors who strongly supported the old MCC.

Ronquillo said there is nothing irregular in having one-on-one student-teacher ratio, referring to Biaño who took 15 units load in the second semester 2007-2008 and 12 units load last summer at the old MCC.

His professors Dr. Cañete gave Biaño 1.2 final grade, Dr. Katrina Cortes gave him 1.3 grade; Dr. Elmer Ripalda gave him 1.2 grade and Dr. Vic Duran gave him 1.1 grade.

Education

Biaño told reporters that he initially took his masters studies in USJR. To satisfy his curiosity and support to MCC he continued his studies in the said school.

But the "new MCC" caretaker Dr Susana Cabahug, who is allied with mayor Jonas Cortes, cited Section 3 of CMO 36 which provided "level lll accreditation of
undergraduate programs, including arts and sciences, shall be a major consideration in granting permits to open new graduate programs…"

She said a school must be five years in continuous operation before earning level l, another five years to earn level ll and another five years to get level lll accreditation.

Memorandum

She also cited another Ched memorandum violated by the old MCC when it opened extension classes in Hilongos Leyte.

CMO 26, policies and guidelines for extension classes stated in No. 3.1, "higher edication institutions with programs and accredited level lll by any of the recognized accrediting bodies in the Philippines… may offer extension classes."

Ronquillo, Cabahug and some members of the inventory committee called for a press conference yesterday to reveal the committee findings on the college, which was padlocked by mayor Jonas Cortes last summer vacation. (OCP)

Business Process Outsourcing: Prospects and Challenges for Cebu's Economy

For Bisaya stories from Cebu. Click here.
(August 23, 2008 issue)