• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO
An ordinance establishing and creating the Bacolod City Plaza and Parks System Management Board (BCPSMB), providing for its composition, powers, functions, funding, and for other purposes, was approved by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod on third and final reading Wednesday.
The ordinance was authored by Councilor Vladimir Gonzalez, and co-authored by Councilors Em Ang and Jason Isidro Villarosa.
One of the thrust of the City Government of Bacolod is to attain an improved quality of life of the people of Bacolod City, by ensuring the preservation of their arts, culture, and heritage, and protect their ecological balance, health, well-being, and happiness; and towards this end it is the city government’s commitment to establish and maintain, public parks, plazas, monuments, and memorials, promenades, center islands, heritage sites, protected and conservation areas, and similarly situated public properties, assets, and sites, it said.
The ordinance said City Ordinance No. 08-14-693, series of 2014, or the Public Plaza and Parks Regulating Ordinance of Bacolod City, does not provide for a structure that will be responsible for formulating policies, programs, and plans, and courses of action for the development, improvement, and standard, and singular maintenance of all public parks, plazas, monuments and memorials, promenades, center islands, heritage sites, protected areas, and similarly situated public properties, assets, and sites within the City of Bacolod, existing now or which may be identified or created by law in the future.
There is a need to constitute and create the above stated management structure to ensure the continuous effective and efficient management of the city’s parks, plazas, monuments, and other similarly situated structures and systems of the city, it added.*
