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CEBU EXPLAINER: Cebu City Council has made some strides on checks and balance, oversight job. Can do better. 7 points.
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+ May 12, 2021 SINCE Vice Mayor Michael Rama, Cebu City Sanggunian presiding officer, vowed in last quarter of 2020 to have the local legislature cease being a rubber stamp to the mayor and instead would check and balance the executive department, there have been a number of improvements.
More noticeably, the City Council held a series of public hearings on the 2021 general budget and kept pushing for a mayor s report on spending of P3.5 billion lump sum appropriations categorized as anti-Covid response. (It succeeded in the first, got sidetracked in the second.)