Baguio City councilors push revised charter nullification

By Aldwin Quitasol

BAGUIO CITY — City councilors here approved a resolution urging the Baguio City Legal Office to draft a petition against declaration of the revised City Charter of Baguio in an overtime session last Monday.
    The revised City Charter of Baguio or Republic Act 11689 lapsed into law on 11 April 2022 and was enacted by the 18th Congress of the Philippine House of Congress.
    The law was enacted into law originally as House Bill 8882 filed by Baguio City Lone District Rep. Mark Go.
    The Baguio councilors said the revised charter is more of a disadvantage to the city rather than a feasible one.
In March last year, the city’s local legislators passed a resolution requesting for then President Rodrigo Duterte to veto it.
    One of the concerns the councilors is raising was Section 55 regarding Camp John Hay reservation under the Bases Conversion Development Authority where it states the CJH Reservation covering a total land area of 6,254,105 square meters subject to final survey, which was transferred to the BCDA by virtue of Republic Act 7227, as amended, otherwise known as the “Bases Conversion and Development Act of 1992,” as amended is not part of the Baguio Townsite Reservation.