• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO
For failure to comply with the compromise agreement they had entered into with the City Treasurer’s Office of Bacolod City, two stall owners of the Manokan Country at the Reclamation Area in Bacolod City are expected to be served notices to vacate by the City Legal Office (CLO) today.
Fourteen tenants of the Manokan Country in Bacolod City signed a compromise agreement with the city last year, allowing them to continue operating their stalls at the Manokan Country after the CLO ordered the closure of their establishments on October 3, 2022, for violation of City Ordinance No. 565.
However, the stall owners were allowed by the city to reopen their business after they executed a compromise agreement with the local government by paying an initial payment, with the remaining amount to be paid on a staggered basis, until December 31, 2022, which was later extended for a period of two years.
City Legal Officer Romeo Carlos Ting Jr. said the two tenants will be issued notices to vacate because they failed to follow the agreement they had signed on October 2022.
Ting said their first payment took effect last November and the next was supposed to be on December 2022, amounting to a total of P50,000.
However, since the two tenants failed to make any payment, the city had no choice but to issue them notices to vacate within 15 days to give them time to pack their things, he said.
Ting is reminding the remaining stall owners to continue to comply with the agreement they have entered into with the city so that they can continue doing business at the Manokan Country.
David Montoya, president of the Manokan Country Vendors Association, said many of them were not able to update their payments because their income was not very good during the last quarter of 2022.
Montoya said most of their members were not able to earn enough income from October to December so they were not able to comply the compromise agreement they had entered with the city.*
