Tagbilaran Mayor Dan Lim yesterday said no to an invitation from the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) to attend the budget programming and planning workshop on Sept. 5.
"In deference to the separation between the executive and legislative, I am constrained not to honor this invitation. The planning workshop is an internal matter that is best left for the (SP)," the mayor said.
Lim added that his presence and officials of the executive department will "only disturb such deliberations."
SP secretary Mansueta Sale wrote Lim last Sept. 2 to invite him to attend the workshop at the Bohol Beach Club.
"It was unanimously agreed by the honorable members of the 10th SP to invite your presence during the said workshop," Sale said.
She also requested the mayor to come during the opening program and deliver a short inspirational message during the occasion.
At the same time, Sale requested the presence of city planning and development officer Eduardo Macalandag, city budget officer Rosemarie Palma and local government operations officer Mardonio Roxas.
Their presence was intended to "assist and guide us during the whole process."
The mayor however was in no mood to accommodate the invitation.
He pointed out that the minority members of the SP "have repeatedly encroached into the performance of the functions and responsibilities of the executive department."
"I will not allow any official or employee of the Executive Department to commit the same mistake," Lim stressed.
He noted that many times in the past, department heads were on the receiving end of the verbal abuse by radio commentators identified with the opposition.
"I won't allow them to go there and be humiliated and subjected to insults," he added. - Sunday Post
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