That is comebacking city councilor Jesus “Jay” Sangil with his accomplishments in terms of passed and approved ordinances and resolutions from 2004 up to 2007.
Records of the sangguniang panlungsod here showed that Sangil, a journalist by profession who wrote for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, posted the most number of passed and approved resolutions and ordinances during his stint in the city council.
Sangil, who also wrote for Ang Bagong MASA, Agence France Presse, Kyodo News Service and The Angeles SUN, averaged a total of 230 legislative bills filed and approved by the SP.
He chaired the Committees on Labor, Cooperative, Special Economic Zone, Public Works and Engineering, and Ways and Means.
Dozens of cooperatives, NGOs and other peoples’ organizations were accredited when he assumed the committee on cooperative.
As chair of the labor committee, he was able to solve various labor-management disputes such as the Golbon garment factory involving more than 700 workers who got their unpaid salaries and other benefits.
More than 300 workers of a big supermarket were granted unpaid benefits and salaries while hundreds of workers in two companies in the Clark Freeport Zone also got their benefits and delayed salaries due to Sangil’s mediation.
In addition, at least 50 employees of a restaurant and pub also won their case through his intercession while a Japanese manager accused of maltreatment by Filipino workers was deported when Sangil took the cudgels for the affected workers.
In Public Works and Engineering, Sangil exposed the substandard construction of several housing units at Northville 15, Barangay Cutud where hundreds of families from eight barangays (Pulungbulo, Sto. Cristo, Lourdes Sur, Lourdes Sur East, CM Recto, Sta. Teresita, Malabanas, Balibago) have been relocated. This prompted the NHA to institute corrective measures for the safety of thousands of residents.
Sangil also supported the building of classrooms, multi-purpose hall, barangay hall, roads and drainage, lighting projects for the city’s 33 barangays.
As Ways and Means committee chair, he also supported the city government’s special programs and projects.
“With the support of my colleagues in the city council during my term from 2004 up to 2013, tayo po ay nakapagpasa ng mga ordinansa at resolusyon na nakatulong sa ating mga kababayan at sa pag unlad ng ating lungsod Angeles,” Sangil said.
“Minsan po ay hindi naiiwasan na merong hindi pagkakaunawaan, debate sa mga issues, pero at the end of the day kami rin po ang magtutulungan para isulong ang kabutihan ng ating mamamayan at Lungsod Angeles,” he added.
Some of the approved ordinances and resolutions proposed by Sangil are: ordinances requiring money changers, banks, pawnshop, malls, supermarkets, and other businesses, as well as major streets in the installation of CCTV cameras; gas safety regulations; granting privileges on cooperatives; granting percentage share of Persons with Disability in the city’s annual budget; underground cabling of telecommunications and cable TV to eliminate spaghetti wires along major thoroughfares.
Notable are: Resolution urging the City Executive to grant P1,500 increase on top of the regular monthly honorarium of day care workers, barangay health workers, BSPO, BNS and additional allowances to all traffic aides and bantay bayan volunteers; Resolution urging business owners in the city and Clark Special Economic Zone to consider qualified applicants aged 30 years old and above in their hiring of personnel, so as not to be discriminated in their selection process;
Resolution requiring operators/ owners of all business establishment in the city to accord their employees with mandatory privileges benefits and guaranteeing the provision of minimum wage as required by PD 442; Resolution urging Congress to craft a bill on the protection against E-load robbery (electronic robbery) on telecommunications ie Smart, Globe, Sun, Talk and Text, among others affecting millions of cell phone users; Resolution urging President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to fully develop Clark International Airport (CIA) as the next premier gateway; and
Resolution requesting President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to push for a twin airport system that would allow the joint development of Clark International Airport and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport; and 220 other approved resolutions.
