News: New Tagum tricycle fare cut coming

dec 15

Tagumenyos all appear to be receiving one big Christmas gift from the City Hall- another P1 reduction of the tricycle fare from P8 to P7 if the flexi-fare ordinance will be followed to the letter.
Atty. Roland Tumanda, chairman of the City Transportation and Franchising Board, will meet with Tagum City Mayor Rey Uy this week to discuss on new and second fare cut for public utility tricycles in view of further oil price decreases following the latest reduced P8 fare charging from the highest P10 fare this year.

“There will be fare cut due to new oil price decreases,” said Tumanda, also the city legal officer.

As of yesterday evening, a gasoline station in the city sold gasoline at a price of P36 per liter, while diesel has P34 per liter, habal-habal driver Alexis Seno told Sidlak.
With the said price, regular fare should already be P7 based on the flexi-fare ordinance.

The city has now its flexible mode of charging tricycle fare following Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s confirmation of the city council’s flexi-fare ordinance which provides a bracket on tricycle fares depending on gasoline pump prices.
The City Hall already ordered for fare reduction to P8 fare from P10 last November 18 even as the SP had still to confirm the flexi-fare ordinance. The SP approved the ordinance shortly.

When the reduction was effected on that date, gasoline prices were already observed to have already breached below the P40 per liter mark.

Under the ordinance, the present P8 regular fare and P6 fare for students and senior citizens would mean that gasoline prices range from P40 to P49.99 per liter.
The CTFRB, under the ordinance, is the body which will call for fare increase or fare decrease from time to time.

Mayor Uy pushed the flexi-fare ordinance to adjust tricycle fare skipping the tedious ang long legislative process of enacting an ordinance in ivew of the volatibility of oil prices.  There was then a fare increase from P7 to P10 approved by the city council which effected last September 19, but a week after Uy pushed the flexi-fare ordinance.

The ordinance’s bracket provides that if gasoline prices per liter (gpl) range P20 to 29.99 it will have P6 for regular fare and P4 for student or senior citizen; P30 to P39.99 gpl- P7 regular fare, P5 student/senior citizen; P40 to 49.99 gpl- P8 regular fare, P6 student/senior citizen; P50 to P59.99 gpl- P9 regular fare, P7 student/senior citizen; P60 to P69.99 gpl- P10 regular fare, P8 student/senior citizen; P70 to P79.99 gpl- P11 regular fare, P9 student/senior citizen; P80 to P89.99 gpl- P12 regular fare, P10 student/senior citizen; P90 to P99.99 gpl- P13 regular fare, P11 student/senior citizen; and P100 and above gpl- P14 regular fare, P12 student/senior citizen. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)

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NEWS: Flexi-fare ordinance takes effect without SP confirmation

Fare is already P8 starting yesterday

nov 19

The tricycle fare should already be P8 and not P10 starting yesterday in Tagum City based on the brackets in the approved flexi-fare ordinance.

Under it and at today’s reduced price of gasoline, the senior citizens and students would have to pay only P6 for the average ride.

City Land Transportation and Regulatory Board chairman  Atty. Roland Tumanda, also the city legal officer, clarified in an interview with Sidlak that even if the ordinance has not yet been confimed by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, the city government has the legal basis and is empowered to enforce it to give urgent public welfare.

“But once it (the ordinance) is not confirmed by the SP, we will stop (the implementation),” he said.

Last Monday’s SP session, the flexi-fare ordinance was not yet even calendared while the SP secretary Dennis Dean Castillo confirmed that as of 5:00 PM that day he had not yet received the ordinance.

The ordinance was approved in last week’s session of the city council.

The measure was enacted due to decreases of gasoline prices.

Earlier, Mayor Rey Uy asked for patience of commuting public in the city to wait for the eventual  approval of the ordinance amid calls for decrease of tricycle fare.
The ordinance has brackets of tricycle fares that would either increase or decrease depending on the current pump prices of gasoline.

Under the ordinance, the CTFRB is the one which will call for fare increase or fare decrease from time to time.

Uy pushed the flexi-fare ordinance a week after the ordinance on fare increase from P7 to P10 effected last September 19.

Tagum is a component city of Davao del Norte and under the New Local Government Code all city resolutions and ordinances are subject for review and confirmation by the SP. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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NEWS: Mayor Uy will not revoke business permit if payment is voluntary

As NDC-Tagum appeals

nov 13

Tagum City Mayor Rey Chiong Uy will not be revoking the business permit of North Davao College Tagum Foundation Inc if the school will first make voluntary the payment of the fees for the nursing review and mock board examinations.

The mayor made bare his stand in a text message yesterday following Tuesday’s appeal of the censured officials and nursing students in lower years of the NDC-Tagum for the mayo not to revoke the school’s business permit.

In a DXDN Radyo Ukay-Tagum report yesterday, Dr. Roberto Palec, NDC-Tagum dean of nursing, pleaded to Uy to make more probe on the allegations against his school before making his final decision on whether to revoke the business permit of the school particularly for its nursing school program.

Dr. Palec said there is a process to follow before they could be penalized with revocation of business permit.

In another radio report, the NDC-Tagum nursing students in lower years especially those in the fourth year now also asked for non-revocation since they are already graduating by March next year.

On Monday the city council has censured the school with seven resolutions including the declaration of four top officials of the school as persona non grata and the revocation of the permit of the school’s nursing course program.

NDC president Anita Somoso, Palec and other officials went to the mayor’s office on Tuesday for the purpose but they were only met by City Administrator Raffy Abrenica and City Legal Officer Roland Tumanda.

Meanwhile, Councilor Francisco Remitar said that while the city council has declared persona non grata to several NDC-Tagum officials it can only declare as such and could not put the censured officials in contempt.

He advised complaining party of nursing graduates and parents to go first to the barangay and then to the court for due relief. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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NEWS: Flexi-fare ordinance geared up for approval next week

CO asks for patience of commuting public

nov 6

Tagum City Mayor Rey Chiong Uy has bared that the flexi-fare ordinance that he initiated is geared up for approval by the city council next week following the recent public hearing and amid calls for fare rollbacks due to further decreases of gasoline prices in the recent days.

In a phone-patch interview yesterday with “El Kapitan” program anchors over Sonshine Radio 711 of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy in Davao City, Mayor Uy asked for patience of commuting public in the city to wait saying, “gamay lang gyud nga agwanta kay kinahanglan man gyud ug balaod usa mapaubos nato ang pletehan.”

He reiterated that the flexi-fare ordinance has brackets of tricycle fares that would either increase or decrease depending on the current pump prices of gasoline.

Under the ordinance, the City Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board is the one which will call for fare increase or fare decrease from time to time.

“It’s one of our firsts and with it, we do away with the long process of making an ordinance where public hearings and other tedious processes are to be taken,” Uy said in venacular in view of the current volatility of the gasoline prices.

It was learned that the mayor himself pegged the price brackets in the draft ordinance made by City Legal Officer Atty. Roland Tumanda a week after the ordinance on fare increase from P7 to P10 effected last September 19.

During the public hearing on the flexi-fare ordinance, reports said that some tricycle drivers were asking that that new ordinance would be effected by January next year so they could recoup their losses when the fare was still P7 and the gasoline price had once hit P60 per liter sometime in July. In January this year, gasoline prices only hovered around over P30 per liter. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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NEWS: Flexi fare ordinance in Tagum coming

oct 1

Depending on price of gasoline

TAGUM CITY- City Legal Officer Roland Tumanda bared yesterday that the proposed ordinance on flexible fare for motorcycles which he drafted following directive of Mayor Rey Uy will be taken up by the City Council this coming Monday’s session.

Atty. Tumanda said in text message that under the scheme the fare will be flexible depending on the price of gasoline in the market, and thus fare for motorcycle would be adjusted, either it will go down or go up.
The proposed flexi fare ordinance was submitted last week to the City Council. It has no session last Monday.

The measure was proposed by Mayor Uy following a week when tricycle drivers started to ask for an increased P10 regular fare from passengers after the taripas were issued by the City Land Transporation and Franchising Board starting last Sept. 19.

The Tagum City Federation of Tricycle Transport and Services Cooperative (Tafettrasco) helped in the distribution of the taripas.

The P10 fare increase, which was enacted due to absence of opposition from the public, has later sparked widespread complaints from the riding public over the high fare increase at a time of decreasing prices of gasoline.

Last August 25 the Sangguniang Panlalawigan unanimously approved Resolution No. 503 confirming the fare-increasing City Ordinance No. 305, which was also unanimously approved by the city council last July 28.Last July tricycle owners and drivers clamored for P10 fare on the ground that gasoline prices had already almost doubled from January price level. That month the price of gasoline once broke beyond P60 per liter.

They complained of daily losses due to skyrocketing prices of oil and to the unfair competition posed by thousands of colorum habal-habal single motorcycles. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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NEWS: P10 fare increase to continue despite oil price decreases- Atty. Tumanda

sept 18

Despite the trend of decreasing oil prices at present, the P10 fare increase for tricycles in Tagum City will continue and would possibly start to be implemented today, Friday as the taripa is already ready for distribution.
City Legal Officer Roland Tumanda bared this yesterday.

He said that some 300 initial copies of the taripa were already reproduced yesterday and would be distributed through the Tagum City Federation of Tricycle Transport and Services Cooperative.

Tafettrasco earlier requested the city government that it be allowed to distribute the taripa to among tricycle drivers to fast-track the fare increase implementation.

Atty. Tumanda said that the city government could not do otherwise despite price rollbacks of crude oil products in the country “unless the ordinance is amended”.

Last August 25 the Sangguniang Panlalawigan unanimously approved Resolution No. 503 confirming the fare-increasing City Ordinance No. 305, which was also unanimously approved by the city council last July 28.
The P7 tricycle fare will increase to P10 although students, senior citizens and differently-abled persons would only pay P8 or an increase of P1 for a city-limit ride.

Tricycle owners and drivers demanded for P10 fare on the ground that gasoline prices had already almost doubled from January price level this year when they demanded for it last July. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)

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