HeLSE OF KEPHESENTATIVES:
Republic of the Philippines RECEIVED
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI

Quezon City, Metro Manila

17" CONGRESS
First Regular Session

RECISTRATION UNIT

HOUSE BILL NO. 1827 _LBALS AW Wnbex SERVICE

Introduced by Representative Weslie T. Gatchalian

EXPLANATORY NOTE

With the advent of industrialization and the continuing modernization of our
infrastructure facilities, new and modern highways were created to accelerate travel
and commercial linkages. One such facility was the North Luzon Expressway
(NLEX). By its creation, the NLEX now traverses through one of our barangays in
Valenzuela City, Barangay Canumay. It has in effect divided the contiguous territory.
of said barangay

By this effective separation, it became necessary to build two barangay halls, a
duplicate day care center was also built to accommodate the children of the displaced
portion of the barangay and the establishment of separate health centers for easier
access to medical care. Both territories likewise have two separate grade school and
high school facilities.

This physical separation necessitated the splitting of Barangay Canumay into
Canumay East and Canumay West to make governance immediate in its response to
constituency concerns and the delivery of public services concentrated and adequate
to the peculiar needs of each community and more importantly making the two
barangays district and independent from each other with its own source of revenue.

Section 386 paragraph (a) of R.A 7160, also known as the Local Government
Code of 1991, provides that the creation of a new Barangay within Metro Manila
should qualify to the minimum requirements of atleast 5,000 inhabitants and provides
that the creation thereof shall not reduce the population of the original barangay to
less than the minimum requirement prescribed.

Based on the recent survey of the National Statistics Office (NSO), the
population of the Canumay West is more or less SIXTEEN THOUSAND TWO
HUNDRED TWENTY — FIVE (16,225) while (Canumay East has a population of
more or less THIRTEEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SIXTY - SEVEN (13,
967).


Barangay Canumay, Valenzuela City, has a land area of 296.8 hectares or
3,015,472.04 square meters, with a population of more or less twenty ~ eight thousand
one hundred ninety — two inhabitations.

During the 15" and 16" Congress, then Rep. Sherwin T. Gatchalian of District
1 of the City of Valenzuela, passed House Bill No. 3927 entitled, “An Act Dividing
Barangay Canumay into Canumay West and Canumay East, City of Valenzuela.”
However, the realization of the bill into a law did not materialize.

In an effort to give a political identity to the two barangays and derive
consequential benefits therefrom, this House Bill is again being submitted this 17"
Congress with manifestation of adopting all documents previously submitted to the
appropriate committee.

In view of the foregoing, the support and approvglef this initiative is earnestly
sought.



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

17" CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO.1327

Introduced by Representative Weslie T. Gatchalian

AN ACT
DIVIDING BARANGAY CANUMAY INTO CANUMAY
WEST AND CANUMAY EAST, CITY OF VALENZUELA

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines of
the Philippines in Congress assembled.

SECTION 1. Dividing Barangay Canumay. ~ Barangay Canumay, located
in Valenzuela City shall be divided into two (2) barangays, to be known as
Canumay West and Canumay East.

SECTION 2. Barangay Officials. — The present elective Barangay
Officials of Barangay Canumay shall continue to perform their duties in the
barangay of which they are residents and registered voters. Such other appointive
officers and employees as maybe necessary to organize and complete the
government personnel of the two divided barangays shall be appointed as provided
for under existing laws.

‘The City Mayor may appoint the Punong Barangay and the members of the
Sangguniang Barangay, and the SangguniangKabataan Chairman and the
corresponding council where there are vacancies. Such officials shall hold office
until their successors shall have been elected in the regular elections for barangay
officials following the approval and ratification of this ordinance.

SECTION 3. Internal Revenue Allotment Shares. — Barangay Canumay
West and Canumay East shall be entitled to Internal Revenue allotment (IRA)
shares pursuant to Section 285 of Republic Act No. 7160 as amended otherwise
known as the Local Government Code.

SECTION 4. Effeetivity — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after
its publication in any newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,