Resolution No. 01821-23, Series of 2023, and its Ordinance on Second Reading Enacting an Ordinance granting Legislative Authority to the General Fund Annual Budget and Plantilla of the City Government of Davao for Calendar Year 2024, Comprising the Budget under the General Fund Proper,

the Economic Enterprises for the Operation of Markets, Slaughterhouses, Sta. Ana Port, Cemeteries, Davao City Recreation Center (DCRC), and Magsaysay Park, and the Annual

Development Fund in the Total Amount of Twelve Billion Six Hundred Seventy-Nine Million Nine Hundred Eighteen Thousand Five Hundred Fifty-Three Pesos
(P12,679,918,553.00) 

            The amendment to Ordinance No. 0407-12, Series of 2012, or the CCTV Ordinance of Davao City was adopted on Second Reading by the 20^th City Council during the 42^nd Regular Session held on November 14, 2023.

            The Body likewise passed and approved Resolution No. 01755-23, Series of 2023, and its corresponding Ordinance on Second Reading, creating the Davao City Office for Culture and the Arts as a Division under the City Mayor’s Office, appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes.

            Resolution No. 01754-23, Series of 2023, and its corresponding Ordinance No. 0327-23, Enacting an Ordinance approving the request of Ms. Joanna Mae R. Macaranas, Officer-in-Charge, Davao Public Transport Modernization Project Office, Department of Transportation (DOTr) for the waiver or abatement of interests, surcharges and penalties assessed as part of transfer tax payments in relation to the execution of four (4) Deeds of Absolute Sale of Properties affected by the Davao Public Transportation Modernization Project (DPTMP) were approved under Suspended Rules.

Finally, Resolution No. 01769-23 and its Ordinance No. 0329-23, both Series of 2023, were likewise approved under Suspended Rules, entitled “An Ordinance authorizing the City Mayor to enter into and sign, for and in behalf of the City of Davao, the Deed of Donation and the Certificate of Acceptance by and between The Food Terminal Incorporated (FTI) And The City of Davao relative to the Donation of Four (4) Units of Refrigerated Container Vans (RCVs) from the former to the Latter for the operation of The Davao Food Terminal Complex (DFTC)”.

The following legislations were approved by the 20^th City Council during its 41^st Regular Session held on November 7, 2023, to wit:

ON SECOND READING:

Resolution No. 01729-23, Series of 2023 and its corresponding Ordinance on Second Reading

• Enacting an Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 0407-12, Series of 2012, entitled “An Ordinance requiring all establishments, whether commercial, industrial or financial institutions, with capitalization of not less than Three Million Pesos (P3,000,000.00), including, but not limited to, banks, pawnshops, restaurants, shopping malls, hotels and inns, educational institutions, hospital and medical institutions, gaming cockpits (sabungans), private transport terminals on land, air and sea operating within the City of Davao, to install, operate, and maintain Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) Cameras in public/common area/s”

UNDER SUSPENDED RULES:

Resolution No. 01730-23, Series of 2023

• Congratulating the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) for the celebration of the Regional Science and Technology and Innovation Week.

Resolution No. 01731-23, Series of 2023

• Encouraging and urging the Dabawenyos to join and participate in the Multisectoral Prayer Rally for Peace.

Resolution No. 01734-23 and Ordinance No. 0326-23, both Series of 2023

• An Ordinance authorizing the City Mayor to enter into and sign, for and in behalf of the City of Davao, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) by and between the City of Davao and Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS), Inc., relative to the renewal of the financial assistance from the former to the latter with Project Code Number 9997-34, for Calendar Year 2023

Resolution No. 01752-23, Series of 2023

• Supporting the City Assessor’s Office on their mandate to conduct tax mapping to all commercial and residential buildings, including agricultural industries and eco-agri farms in the territorial jurisdiction of Marilog District, this City, including those erected in the ancestral land for the purpose of property re-evaluation and issuances of tax declarations solely on the structure alone and not on the land