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EXPLAINER: Cebu City Sanggunian can probe City Hall offices, employees and subpoena witnesses, documents. Cris Saavedra reminds councilors on investigative power. sunstar.com.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunstar.com.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SunStar CEBU EXPLAINER: Cebu City Council has made some strides on checks and balance, oversight job. Can do better. 7 points. Screenshot from Sangguniang Panlungsod Secretariat s Facebook page + May 12, 2021 SINCE Vice Mayor Michael Rama, Cebu City Sanggunian presiding officer, vowed in last quarter of 2020 to have the local legislature cease being a rubber stamp to the mayor and instead would check and balance the executive department, there have been a number of improvements. More noticeably, the City Council held a series of public hearings on the 2021 general budget and kept pushing for a mayor s report on spending of P3.5 billion lump sum appropriations categorized as anti-Covid response. (It succeeded in the first, got sidetracked in the second.) ....