City officials want the Local Finance Committee (LFC) to provide the local legislative body the guidelines and procedures on the lease of city-owned properties for guidance and ready reference.
Under Resolution No. 645, series of 2022, local legislators stated that guidelines and procedures relative to leasing out of city-owned properties is necessary to introduce appropriate legislative measures that will guarantee that the local government will be able to benefit from the said transactions that the city may enter with interested parties.
During recent deliberations in the city council, it was manifested that there are concessionaires in various city parks which were bound by executive agreements or contracts that did not allegedly pass through the local legislative body, hence, the Baguio Tourism Council (BTC) and the City Environment and Parks Management Office (CEPMO) had been asked to submit copies of the said contracts to the body for study and recommendation.
Under the pertinent provisions of Republic Act (RA) 7160 otherwise known as the Local Government Code of the Philippines, contracts that are entered into by the local chief executive are subject to confirmation by the concerned local legislative body.
The council wants to assess and evaluate the said contracts that had been entered into by the executive branch for them to propose possible improvements in future contracts that will ensure that the local government will benefit from the lease of the city-owned properties.
The thrust of the national government is to empower local governments to maximize the generation of internally generated revenue with the lease of their own propert
