Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista ordered on Friday the speedy settlement of territorial disputes in 29 barangays.
Bautista tasked Tomasito Cruz of the city planning and development office to facilitate a peaceful and amicable settlement of these disputes.
Among the 29 barangays with boundary disputes are Commonwealth and Payatas, Libis and Bagumbayan, Sto. Cristo and Ramon Magsaysay, Kaunlaran and San Martin de Porres, and Pansol and a portion of Marikina City, he said.
The mayor underscored the importance of resolving barangay disputes during the turnover of P28 million to the city’s 142 village executives representing the barangays’ real property tax shares for the second quarter of 2016.
Of the city’s 142 barangays, Bagumbayan in District III got the lion’s share of P1,407,197.30.
Loyola Heights got the second biggest share of P1.377,375.15.
Next was San Bartolome that received P1,204,077.11, followed by Kaligayahan that took home P1,058,062.69 million.
Also included in the top 10 recipients were Socorro, South Triangle, Matandang Balara, Central, Mariana and Fairview.
Bautista urged all barangay executives to allocate their funds to worthwhile projects beneficial to the residents.
The Local Government Code of 1991 provides the barangay with a percentage of real property taxes.