Bocaps to compel erring bizmen to secure permits

By Aileen P. Refuerzo

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio Domogan last week directed barangay captains here to compel erring businessmen in their areas of jurisdiction to comply with the business permit requirements.

               

The mayor issued memoranda to the heads of at least 41 barangays where most business establishments were found to be operating without the necessary business permits based on the inspection report of the permits and licensing division of the city mayor’s office.

The report showed that in many barangays in the city, businesses without permits have outnumbered those with permits.

“You are hereby directed to compel those owners of establishments that were found to be operating without business permits to secure the same immediately or else this office will be constrained to initiate appropriate options relative thereto,” the mayor warned in his memoranda.

He gave the barangay captains 15 days to report on the actions taken on his directive.

The memoranda were issued to the punong barangays of West Quirino Hill, Aurora Hill Proper, East Modernsite, West Modernsite, Lopez Jaena, South Central Aurora Hill, West Bayan Park, Ambiong East Bayan Park, Bayan Park Village, Brookspoint, Leonila Hill, North Sanitary Camp, Campo Filipino, Upper and Lower QM, Marcoville, AZCKO, Atok Trail, Engineer’s Hill, San Luis Village, Scout Barrio, Quezon Hill, Palma-Urbano, Pinsao Proper, San Antonio Village, ABCR, T. Alonzo, Kayang Ext., Victoria Village, Alfonso Tabora, Trancoville, Camp 7, Middle Quezon Hill, Asin, San Roque Village, Lualhati Compound/Wright Park, Middle Rock Quarry, Lower and Middle Quirino Hill. 

More barangays are expected to hear from the mayor as the licensing office under CristioLagyop continues the rounds of inspection.

As of July 18, licensing teams have inspected business establishments in 69 barangays. 

Of the 5,260 establishments inspected, 2,058 were found operating without permits.  But in some barangays, illegal businesses outnumbered the legal ones as in the case of Middle Quezon Hill where out of 118 establishments inspected, 71 had no permit.

Owners of the unlicensed businesses who will fail to secure permits will face closure.

Last year, the mayor ordered punong barangays to submit a detailed list of business establishments with or without business permits in their barangays.

               

This was in line with the city’s goal to “establish a benchmark on the actual number of business establishments operating with or without business permits in the city and to provide a database for our revenue-generating and service-oriented establishments.”

               

The licensing team conducted inspections to supplement the mayor’s order.

               

Since he reassumed office in 2012, the mayor has ordered a crackdown on illegal business establishments operating in the city without the required business permits as part of the drive to increase the city’s revenues.