Lapu-Lapu rep to sit in MCIAA board

CEBU, Philippines – Amending the MCIAA Charter to include a representative from Lapu-Lapu City will take time, but the city can in the meantime be represented by someone from the private sector who is from Lapu-Lapu.

This is according to Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, who as governor can recommend four private sector representative to the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) board.

The officials of Lapu-lapu City have aired calls to amend the MCIAA Charter to include a representative from the city.

The governor said that amending the charter will take the circuitous routes at the House of Representatives.

The four names that Gov. Garcia will recommend for the MCIAA board will be submitted to President Benigno Aquino III for approval.

The MCIAA was created through Republic Act 6958. A government-owned and controlled corporation, it is an attached agency of the Department of Transportation and Communication.

RA 6958 was approved on July 31, 1990 but the Authority started to operate on December 18, 1990.

The corporate powers of the Authority is exercised by and vested in a board of eleven members, which is composed of the chairman, the vice Chairman and nine (9) members, four of whom are from the private sector.

Newly-elected Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza renewed her call for the city to have a representative to the MCIAA board.

Her husband, lone district of Lapu-Lapu City Rep. Arturo Radaza has been asked by sectors in the city to work for the possible amendments of the charter. (THE FREEMAN)