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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Thursday, March 1, 2007 |
IN TANJAY
VM, 3 dads walk out on
budget deliberation
BY MARICAR ARANAS
The vice mayor and three opposition councilors in Tanjay City, Oriental Negros, walked out during the annual budget and investment plan hearing at the city session hall Tuesday.
Vice Mayor Lawrence Teves left the session hall with Councilors Errki Lozarita, Juvelo Napao and Earl Condes.
Councilor Roy Lozano, chairman of the Committee on Finance
and Appropriations, said that, during the discussion of the budget and
annual investment plan, some members of the Sanggunian requested for
the presence of department heads to clarify the figures stipulated in
the investment plan. 
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Vacant
lots eyed The Dumaguete City government is planning to use vacant lots at the commercial districts as parking areas for motorcycles for hire and public utility jeepneys. Mayor Agustin Perdices also proposed that MCH and PUJ operators
be exempted from paying taxes on the lots, on condition that it
will be run by the barangay or the city. |
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DENR steps up The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Oriental Negros is implementing the plant-to-graduate program called "Coastal Environment Protection -Focused on Mangroves." This is in support of the Massive Organizational Response to Destruction of Environment, Nature and Ourselves project implemented earlier by the Department of Education in Region VII, advocating the planting of trees and other similar activities to preserve and protect the environment. Rowena Magpiong, of the DENR, said, some 638 graduating students
from 10 elementary and secondary schools have planted 5,104 mangrove
propagules and 1,276 seedlings at the Enrique Villanueva and Larena
mangrove areas for this month alone. |
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