House invites SP dads to congressional hearing on Culasi townhood
Members of the 9th Iloilo Sanggunian Panlalawigan (SP) have been invited to be the next resource persons on next week’s congressional hearing on the Culasi townhood.
Introduced by Fifth District Representative Neil Tupas Jr., House Bill No. 3753 was pushed “inspired” by the proposal to create a new Iloilo town.
Presented as “Municipality of Culasi,” the proposed town will be composed of barangays Barrido, Bay-ang, Culasi, Luca, Malayu-an, Nasidman, Pedada, Pili and Sto. Rosario of Ajuy, Iloilo. Added to the list are barangays San Fernando and Santiago of the Municipality of Barotac Viejo, Iloilo.
The bill is pending before House Committee on Local Government chaired by Representative George Arnaiz.
Continued deliberations with the Iloilo SP body as invited guests are set on the January 28th hearing at the Ramon V. Mitra Building, House of Representatives in Quezon City.
“In this regard, we would like to invite you to the said meeting to share with the Committee your valuable insights on the bill,” the letter went.
Tupas Jr. in seeking the passage of the bill stated that “indicators” are out that said barangays have “potential for growth.”
As such, “….the conversion of said barangays into the Municipality of Culasi is warranted and long overdue.” The people here, Tupas Jr. added, “have displayed the ability for self-governance and their readiness to chart their direction as a people.”
“The profile of the barangays of the proposed Municipality of Culasi more than satisfies the requisites for the creation of a municipality as provided in The Local Government Code of 1991,” Tupas Jr. justified in the bill’s Explanatory Note.