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This is an Information System thats capable of tracking and Archiving certain ordinances, resolutions, pending ordinances, records, minutes, agenda and profile of the Legislators for the update of the netizens in the Municipality of Ipil Zamboanga Sibugay. The main objective of this program is to easily find the data's and information neccessary for sessions and for the people who inquire for. All of the files can be viewed in PDF files.Ipil, officially the Municipality of Ipil (Cebuano: Lungsod sa Ipil; Chavacano: Municipalidad de Ipil), is a 1st class municipality and capital of the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.

Ipil used to be known as Sanito, a place under barrio Bacalan under the Municipality of Kabasalan. It was a swampy area and a docking spot for pioneering Ilocanos who settled in the upper areas of Titay. Ipil was a jumping point for their lantsa sailing to Zamboanga City. The first mayor of Ipil was Gregorio Dar, an Ilocano who came from Titay. The Dar Family were the second batch of Ilocanos who settled upon the invitation of Mariano Families who are among the first batch of Ilocanos from Luzon. When Sanito became a Town in 1949,[5] its name was changed to Ipil, as there were many Ipil trees found within the said locale. Early Ilocano routes The first Ilocanos used Ipil as the nearest jump point in connecting Titay with Zamboanga City. They would walk via Lumbia then to Longilog then Gabo reaching Mayabang their original settlement. It was this route that they do not have to cross the rivers as it is uphill. It was the Ilocanos who first set foot on these areas. Ipil massacre Main article: 1995 Ipil massacre On the morning of April 3, 1995, Ipil was attacked by approximately 200 heavily armed Abu Sayyaf militants who fired upon residents, strafed civilian homes, plundered banks, took up to 30 hostages and then burned the centre of the town to the ground.[6][7] The militants allegedly arrived in the town by boat and bus, and a number of them had been dressed in military fatigues The town's Chief of Police was reportedly killed in the attack and close to a billion pesos were looted from eight commercial banks.[8] Army commandos pursued some rebel gunmen in nearby mountains while officials said that the rebels were looting farms and seizing civilians as "human shields" as they fled the town of [9] about 40 rebels, who may have taken hostages, were cornered in a school compound west of Ipil on the 6th of April when an elite army unit attacked. In the fighting that followed, the television station GMA reported, 11 civilians were killed.

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