On Thursday, Vice Mayor Gloria P. Ronquillo showed a copy of Sambo’s EO No. 1 “assigning, allocating and transferring” the offices of the Sangguniang Bayan (SB) to the municipal annex building in Barangay San Matias from the municipal hall in Barangay San Vicente.
Copies of the EO were delivered to SB members on Sunday, according to Ronquillo.
But on Monday, Ronquillo said she and her colleagues were surprised to find out that their chairs have already been taken out of the session hall in the municipal hall. As a result, they had to postpone their inaugural session until the next day after borrowing mono block chairs.
But on Wednesday the tables were removed.
According to Ronquillo, they conducted a meeting among the SB members where six councilors voted not in favor of transferring the SB offices while only three councilors voted in favor.
Ronquillo said the municipal annex, even if it has a session hall on the third floor, has no parking and is too far from the municipal hall. She said Sambo should have consulted with them first before ordering the transfer.
Ronquillo said she wrote a letter to provincial director Myrvi A. Fabia of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) seeking her intercession on the matter.
She pointed out that just a few hours after taking his oath of office on June 30, Sambo signed the transfer order. “Why is he in a hurry? He could have talked to us first because we are also elected officials like him,” Ronquillo lamented.
Also on June 30, Sambo wrote a memorandum informing SB members that their office at the municipal hall will be allocated and assigned to the Municipal Social Welfare and Development, Senior Citizens’ Office, Persons With Disability Office, and the 4Ps Office.
Ronquillo said Sambo never consulted them with his order transferring their offices in violation of the law.
