High Court asked to reverse decision on cityhood
March 16, 2011
ANGELES CITY — City Hall employees here appealed to the Supreme Court (SC) to reconsider its decision upholding the constitutionality of laws converting 16 municipalities into cities.
During their flag raising rites on Monday, City Hall employees wore shirts printed with “Stop the illegal conversion of municipalities – League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP).”
In his speech, Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan expressed his dismay on the SC for reversing its decision for the third time favoring the conversion of the towns into cities.
“Unfortunately, it creates a perception that our Supreme Court justices are not studying the cases carefully and meticulously,” he said.
Pamintuan, who is currently the public relations officer of LCP, said the reversal of a final decision is setting “a bad precedent and will disturb the well-established legal principles on finality of judgment.”
Pamintuan said he is worried that this move will result in a decrease in the internal revenue allotment (IRA) share of Angeles in favor of the new cities.
“Because of the SC decision, some of our programmed projects this year would be jeopardized as our share of the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) would be significantly reduced,” Pamintuan said.
The City Government will be losing up to P32-million share from the IRA every year due to the conversion of the 16 municipalities into cities, he added.
The 16 new cities are Lamitan, Basilan; Tabuk, Kalinga; Bayugan, Agusan del Sur; Batac, Ilocos Norte; Mati, Davao Oriental; Guihulngan, Negros Oriental; Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte; Carcar, Cebu; El Salvador, Misamis Oriental; Naga, Cebu; Baybay, Leyte; Bogo, Cebu; Catbalogan, Western Samar; Tandag, Surigao del Sur; Borongan, Eastern Samar and Tayabas, Quezon.
El Salvador has an annual income of P17 million and about 17,000 residents, Pamintuan said.
Last week, city mayors belonging to the LCP marched along Padre Faura in Ermita, Manila to dramatize the filing of their motion for reconsideration.
In a motion for reconsideration, the LCP said the SC had no jurisdiction anymore to issue its February 15 resolution, declaring constitutional the 16 cityhood laws because there was no longer any controversy to settle.
“No province, city, municipality or barangay shall be created, divided, merged, abolished or its boundary substantially altered, except in accordance with the criteria established in the Local Government Code and subject to approval by a majority of the votes cast in a plebiscite in the political units directly affected,” the LCP said, quoting the Constitution.
It added that the cityhood laws violated Republic Act 9009, which amended the Local Government Code six years before the cityhood laws and increased the annual income requirement for conversion of a municipality into a city from P20 million to P100 million.
Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2011/03/14/high-court-asked-reverse-decision-cityhood-144819
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