Pressing water issues must be referred to the Committee of the Whole - Nacaya

“THE special report of Councilor Judith is too early. I joined (with) the manifestation of Vice Mayor Bebot Rodriguez in the previous session that, sometimes, we are doing our reporting here that is not strategic but just (for) information (purposes).”

CDO City Council Pressing water issues must be referred to the Committee of the Whole - Nacaya

Councilor Ian Mark Q. Nacaya pointed this out after Councilor James K. Judith II made another special report on the failure of the Cagayan de Oro Bulk Water, Incorporated to supply potable water to city residents.

Judith requested that the issue be referred to the Committee on Public Utilities, chaired by Councilor Romeo V. Calizo, for investigation and appropriate action.

According to Nacaya, the matter was already referred to the City Council Committee of the Wholem and awaiting disposition. The committee on public utilities should yield to the bigger committee created by the plenary for the purpose, he added.

The committee of the whole was not yet dissolved, he said.

“Since the (water supply) issue has lingered to what it has become (today), (and now) that the President has intervened, …. everything on the issue of water we refer to the committee (of the whole and), not to the regular committee,” the councilor further stated.