Legal Office to Brgy Bugo: Align waste ordinance with city law

The City Legal Office (CLO) advised Barangay Bugo to revise its proposed amendments to their Barangay Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) Ordinance to ensure consistency with the existing city ordinance.

In its proposal, Barangay Bugo seeks to amend Paragraphs 13, 14, 16 of RLP-008-2008 to increase garbage fees for residential areas, stores, eateries, and other commercial establishments and to raise penalties for littering.

The CLO, however, maintained that revisions in any barangay legislation must complement, not contradict, with city laws, and any such changes imposing penalties higher or lower than those prescribed under Ordinance No. 13378-2018, or the Integrated Ecological Solid Waste Management Ordinance of the city, should be repealed or modified.

The said measure is calendared in the next barangay affairs committee meeting chaired by Councilor Marlo Tabac after it was deferred due to non-attendance of the representative from Barangay Bugo. (FDC/SP)