BY ASANGAN T. MADALE
ILIGAN CITY MAYOR FREDERICK W. SIAO said we celebrate our 73rd Charter Day with joyfully and auspiciously as we continue to go about our daily lives with pride and dedication.
We are one of the fastest -growing cities in the country in terms of population and economy. We are also at the forefront of Mindanao progress as a city of technology , culture, peace ,and sustainable growth.
Someday, hopefully, in the near future, we can celebrate our Charter Day as a special non-working holiday. For that to happen, we will ask friends in Congress to file the needed bill.
I will also soon issue an executive order to establish a multisectoral consultative committee to draft an updated Charter of the City of Iligan, which we will later ask friends in Congress to file and support in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Siao stress
The current Charter of the City of Iligan became law in 1950. That was 73 years ago. We have come a long way, and we have much to accomplish still as a city.
The amended city charter will include a visioning exercise during which we can map out where we want to go, why we will do it, and the broad strokes of how to attain our shared vision for our beloved City.
That new vision and roadmap will significantly determine the resources and mandates we need to become one of the major metropolitan, cosmopolitan, and balanced growth cities of the Philippines.
The baseline of the new Iligan City Charter will be the Local Government Code, but there will also be some improvements because that law was circa 1991 or 32 years ago.
The new City Charter based on the collective vision of the future by different sectors of Iligan City is what we need for the rest of the 21st Century. Through its new charter, the City will definitely conform to the present time and prospectively head for a better future for all Iliganons. Siao added. ###
