FUNCTIONS

Sangguniang Panlungsod

• The Sangguniang Panlungsod approves ordinances and pass resolutions necessary for an efficient and effective city government.

• Generate and maximize the use of resources and revenues for the development plans, program objectives and priorities of the City.

• Grant franchises and authorizing the issuance of permits or licenses to promote the general welfare of the inhabitants of the city.

• Regulate activities relative to the use of land, buildings and structures within the city.

• Approve ordinances which will ensure the efficient delivery of basic services and facilities.

• Exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and functions as may be assigned by law or ordinance.

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Legislative Staff

• The primary function of the Secretary to the Sangguniang Panlungsod is to attend Meetings/Sessions, both regular and special or emergency, committee and public hearings and keep a journal of its proceedings.

• It maintains records, books and journals of all ordinances and resolutions enacted or adopted by the Sanggunian with the dates of passage and publication.

• Forward to the Sangguniang Panglalawigan copies of duly approved ordinances for review. It furnishes with certified copies of records of public character as requested by interested parties.

• It translates if necessary ordinances into the dialect being used by the majority of the inhabitants. It also takes custody of the local archives.

• Exercises such other powers and performs such other duties and functions as may be prescribes by law or ordinances relative to his position.

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Personal Staff

• The main duty is to maintain a systematic filing of all communications, incoming and outgoing from the national, provincial, municipal and barangay resolutions, ordinances and others.

• Compiles approved resolutions and ordinances and reviews and updates the record and files. Encodes all resolutions, ordinances by subject through proper indexing procedures.

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