Baguio, San Juan City to forge sisterhood ties

BAGUIO City Vice Mayor Edison Bilog and San Juan City Vice-Mayor Janella Ejercito Estrada presided over a joint special session last week at the City hall’s SP Session hall to forge the sisterhood ties between the two cities.

The meeting was attended by elected officials, department heads, section chiefs and staff from San Juan City and several of their Baguio counterparts. San Juan officials were on their Executive-Legislative study tour program and planning session in the Summer Capital deliberating their 2018 budget.

San Juan City Mayor Guia Gomez earlier sent a letter to Mayor Mauricio Domogan expressing her intention to forge a sisterhood agreement between the two cities when they get a chance to visit Baguio.

Councilor Elmer Datuin, chair of the city’s council’s committee on tourism and special events, endorsed her request for sisterhood ties and recommended that this be accepted by local officials and forwarded to the sisterhood twinning committee for the necessary arrangements to make it a reality.

Members of the city council and other officials are planning to visit San Juan City where the sisterhood agreement is expected to be formally signed.

Baguio currently has sisterhood agreements with several local and international cities that seek to increase the economic, cultural, social and other ties between the parties that benefit their constituents.