Naga, Cebu

Naga
Component City
City of Naga

Bonifacio Park

Seal
Nickname(s): The Industrial Hub of Southern Cebu[1]
Motto: "Usa ka ugma, usa ka buwan, usa ka tuig"

Map of Cebu with Naga highlighted
Naga

Location within the Philippines

Coordinates: PH 10°13′N 123°45′E / 10.22°N 123.75°E / 10.22; 123.75Coordinates: PH 10°13′N 123°45′E / 10.22°N 123.75°E / 10.22; 123.75
Country Philippines
Region Central Visayas (Region VII)
Province Cebu
District 1st district of Cebu
Founded
Cityhood		 1785
2007
Barangay 28 (see § Barangays)
Government [2]
 • Type Sangguniang Panlungsod
 • Mayor Valdemar Chiong (NP)
 • Vice mayor Delfin Señor
 • City Council
Area [3]  
 • Total 101.97 km2 (39.37 sq mi)
Population (2010 census)[4]
 • Total 101,571
 • Density 1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
 • Voter  (2013) [5] 55,646
Demonym(s) Nagueño
Time zone PHT (UTC+8)
IDD : area code  +63 (0)32
Income class —
PSGC 072234000
Website www.cityofnagacebu.gov.ph

Naga, officially called the City of Naga and often referred to as Naga City, is a city in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 101,571.[4] In the 2013 election, it had 55,646 registered voters.[5]

The city of Naga lies within the Cebu metropolitan area.

Economy

Among the industries in Naga are the Apo Cement Corporation, the largest factory in the country, producing 4,000 metric tons (3,900 long tons) per day; FSP Group; the 290-megawatt KEPCO Philippines Corporation power plant; MRC Allied Industries; Kyocera Kinseki Philippines, Inc.; Pryce Gases, Inc.; Rikio Southeast Asia; and the 147-megawatt coal-fired Salcon Power Corporation plant.[1]

Barangays

Naga comprises 28 barangays:

  • Alpaco
  • Bairan
  • Balirong
  • Cabungahan
  • Cantao-an
  • Central Poblacion
  • Cogon
  • Colon
  • East Poblacion
  • Inoburan
  • Inayagan
  • Jaguimit
  • Lanas
  • Langtad
  • Lutac
  • Mainit
  • Mayana
  • Naalad
  • North Poblacion
  • Pangdan
  • Patag
  • South Poblacion
  • Tagjaguimit
  • Tangke
  • Tinaan
  • Tuyan
  • Uling
  • West Poblacion

Demographics

Population census of Naga
YearPop.±% p.a.
1990 60,425—    
1995 69,010+2.52%
2000 80,189+3.27%
2007 95,163+2.39%
2010 101,571+2.40%
Source: National Statistics Office[4][6]

In the 2013 election, it had 55,646 registered voters, meaning that 55% of the population are aged 18 and over.[5]

Sports venues

In December 2015, Naga City government inaugurated the Teodoro Mendiola Sr. Sports Field and Oval, located along North Poblacion. It will be used as a main venue for the 2016 Central Visayas Regional Athletic Association games in February. The ₱68 million estimated project comprises a track and field oval, swimming pool (olympic-sized), and basketball, tennis, and volleyball courts.[7]

Cityhood

Lamp posts along the city's highway

During the 11th Congress (1998–2001), Congress enacted into law 33 bills converting 33 municipalities into cities. However, Congress did not act on a further 24 bills converting 24 other municipalities into cities.

During the 12th Congress (2001–2004), Congress enacted into law Republic Act No. 9009 (RA 9009), which took effect on 30 June 2001. RA 9009 amended Section 450 of the Local Government Code by increasing the annual income requirement for conversion of a municipality into a city from ₱20 million to ₱100 million. The rationale for the amendment was to restrain, in the words of Senator Aquilino Pimentel, "the mad rush" of municipalities to convert into cities solely to secure a larger share in the Internal Revenue Allotment despite the fact that they are incapable of fiscal independence.

After RA 9009 went into effect, the House of Representatives of the 12th Congress adopted Joint Resolution No. 29, which sought to exempt from the ₱100 million income requirement in RA 9009 the 24 municipalities whose cityhood bills were not approved in the 11th Congress. However, the 12th Congress ended without the Senate having approved Joint Resolution No. 29.

During the 13th Congress (2004–2007), the House of Representatives re-adopted former Joint Resolution No. 29 as Joint Resolution No. 1 and forwarded it to the Senate for approval. However, the Senate again failed to approve the Joint Resolution. Following the suggestion of Senator Aquilino Pimentel (Senate President), 16 municipalities filed, through their respective sponsors, individual cityhood bills. The 16 cityhood bills each contained a common provision exempting it from the ₱100 million income requirement of RA 9009 –

"Exemption from Republic Act No. 9009. — The City of x x x shall be exempted from the income requirement prescribed under Republic Act No. 9009."

On 22 December 2006, the House of Representatives approved the cityhood bills. The Senate also approved the cityhood bills in February 2007, except that of Naga, Cebu which was passed on 7 June 2007. These cityhood bills lapsed into law on various dates from March to July 2007 after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo failed to sign them.

Cityhood was ratified in a plebiscite on September 2, 2007. The point of law at issue in 2007 was whether there had been a breach of Section 10, Article X of the 1987 Constitution, which provides –

No province, city, municipality, or barangay shall be created, divided, merged, abolished or its boundary substantially altered, except in accordance with the criteria established in the local government code and subject to approval by a majority of the votes cast in a plebiscite in the political units directly affected.

– and in each case the established criteria were far from met.

In November 2008, Naga and 15 other cities lost their cityhood after the Supreme Court of the Philippines granted a petition filed by the League of Cities of the Philippines, and declared unconstitutional the cityhood law (RA 9491) which had allowed the town to acquire its city status.[8] The Supreme Court ruled that they did not pass the requirements for cityhood.[9][10]

On 10 December 2008, the 16 cities affected acting together filed a motion for reconsideration with the Supreme Court. More than a year later, on 22 December 2009, acting on said appeal, the Court reversed its earlier ruling as it ruled that "at the end of the day, the passage of the amendatory law" (regarding the criteria for cityhood as set by Congress) "is no different from the enactment of a law, i.e., the cityhood laws specifically exempting a particular political subdivision from the criteria earlier mentioned. Congress, in enacting the exempting law/s, effectively decreased the already codified indicators."[11] Accordingly cityhood status was restored.

But on 27 August 2010, the 16 cities lost their city status again, after the Supreme Court voted 7-6, with two justices not taking part, to reinstate the 2008 decision declaring as "unconstitutional" the Republic Acts that converted the 16 municipalities into cities. A previous law required towns aspiring to become cities to earn at least ₱100 million annually, which none of the 16 did.[12]

On 15 February 2011, the Supreme Court made another volte-face and upheld for the third time the cityhood of 16 towns in the Philippines.[13]

Finally, on 12 April 2011, the Supreme Court, in an en banc ruling delivered in Baguio City, affirmed the finality of the constitutionality of the 16 cityhood laws by resolving that:

We should not ever lose sight of the fact that the 16 cities covered by the Cityhood Laws not only had conversion bills pending during the 11th Congress, but have also complied with the requirements of the LGC prescribed prior to its amendment by R.A. No. 9009.[12] Congress undeniably gave these cities all the considerations that justice and fair play demanded. Hence, this Court should do no less by stamping its imprimatur to the clear and unmistakable legislative intent and by duly recognizing the certain collective wisdom of Congress. WHEREFORE, the Ad Cautelam Motion for Reconsideration (of the Decision dated 15 February 2011) is denied with finality.[13]

On 28 June 2011 the Supreme Court directed the Clerk of Court to issue the entry of judgment on the cityhood case of 16 municipalities.[14] This entry of judgment ended the cityhood battle of the 16 cities.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Economic boom brings prosperity to Cebu's new cities - PhilStar Global.
  2. ↑ "City". Quezon City, Philippines: Department of the Interior and Local Government. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Municipal: Naga, Cebu". PSA. Philippines: National Statistical Coordination Board. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay: as of May 1, 2010" (PDF). 2010 Census of Population and Housing. National Statistics Office. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 "2013 National and Local Elections Statistics" (PDF). Commission on Elections. 2015.
  6. ↑ "Population and Annual Growth Rates by Province, City and Municipality: Central Visayas: 1995, 2000 and 2007" (PDF). National Statistics Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2011.
  7. ↑ Sun.Star, Justin K. Vestil (14 December 2015). "Naga opens P152.5M in infra, including track for runners". Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  8. ↑ Republic Act No. 9491 of 15 July 2007 Charter of the City of Naga
  9. ↑ G.R. No. 176951 et al. (First appeal) of 18 November 2008 Consolidated petitions for prohibition assailing the constitutionality of the subject Cityhood Laws and enjoining the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and respondent municipalities from conducting plebiscites pursuant to the Cityhood Laws.
  10. ↑ Napallacan, Jhunex (2008-11-21). "Cities’ demotion worries DepEd execs". Cebu Daily News. Inquirer.net. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  11. ↑ G.R. No. 176951 et al. (First reversal) of 21 December 2009
  12. 1 2 Republic Act No. 9009 of 24 February 2001 An Act amending section 450 of Republic Act no. 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991, by increasing the average annual income requirement for a municipality or cluster of barangays to be converted into a component city.
  13. 1 2 G.R. No. 176951 et al. (Second appeal) of 15 February 2011 League of Cities of the Philippines v. COMELEC
  14. ↑ G.R. No. 176951 et al. (Final Resolution) of 28 June 2011 Supreme Court has directed the Clerk of Court to forthwith issue the Entry of Judgment

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