WHAT’S NEXT FOR KAWIT, LANDFILL PROJECTS; WHAT IF MAYOR WOULD SIGN CONTRACTS

Kinks from the epic two-day session of the Cebu City Council session last Aug. 7 and 8 (Tuesday and Wednesday) were examined by councilors in their session last Monday (Aug. 13). But they were not threshed out. They could not approve the minutes, which incidentally totaled 200 pages (!).

Each camp has stuck to its stand that it is correct: Barug Team Rama says the session adjourned without passing the Kawit joint venture and the revival of the Inayawan landfill. BOPK insists the session adjourned and the BOPK councilors who continued it legally approved the two measures the same council had earlier rejected.

Presumably, the minutes contained all that happened from Tuesday (up to near midnight) until Wednesday night, including incidents up to adjournment and those after adjournment. (One wonders if it included the request for the acting secretary to have a C.R. break; he was told to pee in his pants. If the 200page record recorded everything, it should be there.)

So if Mayor Tomas Osmeña would sign contracts on Kawit and Inayawan without the approved minutes that certify to their approval, he would give a cause of action for Barug or any other aggrieved person to go to court and question their validity.

The minutes here, ordinarily an innocuous document that the City Council quickly approves, have become the basis for the legality and validity of the contracts the mayor would sign.