Post on 17-May-2018
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"GOOD GOVERNANCE AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH, A CONTINUING LEGACY"
The 2015 State of the City Address of Honorable Evelyn T. Uy, City Mayor of Dipolog 14 April 2015; 2:00 P.M.; Atrium, Top Plaza Hotel, Dipolog City
HONORABLE VICE MAYOR and Presiding Officer of the Sangguniang Panlungsod, DR. HORACIO B. VELASCO; HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE SANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD; Our distinguished Representatives at the Lower House of Congress, HONORABLE ROSENDO "DODOY" LABADLABAD of the 2nd District, and HONORABLE ISAGANI S. AMATONG of the 3rd District of Zamboanga del Norte; HONORABLE ROBERTO Y. UY, Provincial Governor of Zamboanga del Norte; HONORABLE VICE GOVERNOR SENEN O. ANGELES and the DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE SANGGUNIANG PANLALAWIGAN; MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY; Our hardworking BARANGAY CAPTAINS and COUNCIL MEMBERS of the twenty-one barangays of Dipolog; Heads of the different national line agencies and offices; Officers and gentlemen of the uniformed service, Col. JESUS MANANQUIL, Commander of the 101st Army Infantry Brigade; Police Superintendent Rannie Hachuela, Chief of Police of Dipolog; OIC-PNP Provincial Director
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Our active partners in development: the members of the Business Community led by the Dipolog Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Non-Government and Peoples' Organizations, Civil Society, the Religious Sector, members of the Media; My fellow workers in the City Government; Mga pinalangga kong Dipolognon,
MAAYONG HAPON KANATONG TANAN!
Last year, I stood before you and declared that the success of
Dipolog is a result of our people's journey to good governance. As
we gather here this afternoon for my 8th annual report to the
people, I would like to start exactly where we left off a year ago.
Sa miaging tuig, gihimo ko ang usa ka panaad isip Mayor ug
inahan sa dakbayan nga ako mahimong usa uban kaninyo ug
magkuyog ta sa kalambuan.
From that day, we have had so many successes in a lot of fronts.
Today, I can sum up the condition and the state of our city as
stronger and bolder. Development has definitely arrived in
Dipolog.
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Our city is no longer the sleepy, backward town of 20 years ago.
Our city is now facing the same challenges typical of a growing,
developing urban center: High and rapid population growth,
heavily increasing population density, space congestion and rising
resource consumption, among other concerns. Add to it the
limitation on resources -- financial and others -- which strains the
capability of the local government to properly and expeditiously
address said concerns.
We are a relatively small city of 134,000 people but we have seen
remarkable growth as our population has nearly doubled in just 25
years. And our city's population density is the highest in the
Zamboanga Peninsula region at nearly a thousand people per
square kilometer.
This fact can largely be attributed to the rapid economic growth
that our city has seen in the last decade. From seven urban
barangays and 14 rural barangays ten years ago, the landscape
has dramatically changed. Dipolog now has 14 urban barangays
and only seven remained rural.
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Of course, accompanying development are the multifarious
concerns that we have to face. But believe me when I say that life
in Dipolog is still getting more exciting by the day. In fact, people
have never been this excited about Dipolog -- Businesses and
banks are opening left and right; the volume of new business
investments is on a steady increase; the first commercial
passenger marine vessel, the MV Lady of Good Voyage of
Medallion Transport, is on its third week plying the direct Cebu-
Dipolog route using our very own Dipolog Sea Port in Galas; the
Dipolog Airport's new terminal building will be operational very
soon; as well as the Corazon Aquino Hospital; plus many other
public investments on infrastructure and facilities.
So you may ask, how are we able to manage to be this vibrant
despite our limited local resources?
I say, in our belief that INNOVATION is key to addressing
resource problems. Local governments are now challenged with
an increasing demand from its constituency to address growing
societal problems and at the same time people are now expecting
greater transparency, efficiency and a more effective delivery of
public goods and services from civil servants.
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I would like to give special emphasis on the resource partnership
that our City has forged with the national government. For the first
time in decades, Dipolog has gotten the important attention in
terms of the volume of projects poured, the amount of which runs
in the hundreds of millions of pesos. We can't thank enough His
Excellency Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III for all of these. President
Aquino made sure that the people of Dipolog and Zamboanga del
Norte will benefit from the country's inclusive economic growth.
This year, we will be seeing the completion and progress of
various big-ticket infrastructure projects in our city.
* The Corazon C. Aquino Hospital with a total project of
cost of 250-Million Pesos will be inaugurated later this year
after we have completed the acquisition of hospital
equipment and fixtures.
* We have recently completed the 8-Million-Peso Phase I of
improvements at the Cogon Eco-Tourism Park using
funding from the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise
Zone Authority or TIEZA.
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* The rehabilitation of Dipolog Communal Irrigation System
worth over 58-Million Pesos. The funding from this project
came from the Agrarian Reform Communities Project II, the
Performance-Based Incentive Award from the Department of
Finance and local counterpart from the city government.
* The Department of Tourism has likewise spent 100
Million Pesos to start the extension of the Dipolog
Boulevard.
* Ongoing implementation now is the rehabilitation and
extension of the breakwater at the Dipolog Sea Port in
Galas. A total of 45-Million Pesos was allocated by the
Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC)
for this project.
* Likewise, DPWH Region 9 is implementing a number of
other infrastructure projects to include widening of various
roads in the city; completion of the River Control worth over
200-Million Pesos; as well as the concreting of the Cogon-
Diwan Road leading to Sungkilaw Falls. These tourism-
support infrastructure, which also include the Linabo Road,
are worth more than 300-Million Pesos.
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Magpasalamat kita sa atong pinalanggang Presidente
Noynoy Aquino gumikan sa dakong tabang nga iyang
nahatag sa pagpalambo sa Dipolog.
Dipolog's story is getting better by the day. Now, we are starting
to see the results. This afternoon, we look back at what we have
accomplished and achieved last year.
(DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION)
Our experience in Dipolog is that innovation calls not only for
improvement but the greater work of TRANSFORMATION. The
Dipolog that we are seeing and experiencing now is a product of a
number of innovative practices, ideas and programs.
Last October, our city was bestowed with the prestigious Gawad
Galing Pook for the Dipolog Urban Renewal Program. Our city's
urban development and renewal was cited for being one of the
ten most outstanding and model local governance programs in
the country as it embodied multi-dimensional objectives not only
for environmental protection, but socio-economic and cultural
development, as well.
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We all know the story of how Dipolog was able to transform the
lives of 500 families who were former informal settlers at the
coastline of the city. Many fisherfolks and a greater number of
migrants from other places have built shanties over the coast
creating a slum out of a very important natural resource of our
place. We used to call it as Dipolog's longest toilet. It was
unsightly but more over it was definitely a degrading and unsafe
living condition for the families in that slum.
A strong political will and the sincerity to uplift the lives of the
people made the difference. People had to be relocated from the
coastal slum which is both a disaster to the environment as it is
also a disaster for the people who were perennially affected by
storm surges during typhoons.
Fast-forward to present time, from slum, the coastal area has
been transformed and is now named as the Dipolog Boulevard,
the hub of community events for leisure, sports and wellness,
entertainment, cultural heritage promotion, among other diverse
uses.
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Our Boulevard has become the city's magnet to attract
businesses to develop and locate in the area and the city's
business district. At present, 15 businesses have opened shop at
the two-commercial buildings -- most of these businesses are
owned by young local startup entrepreneurs. Aside from
contributing an additional 5-Million Peso annual income for the
city coffers in the form of space rentals at the commercial
building, the boulevard has provided a sustainable source of
income for local micro-entrepreneurs such as balut and barbeque
vendors, fruit traders and other small food stall operators.
In early February of this year, I was able to present our success
story in Singapore before a panel of urban infrastructure
international experts and they were awed by the transformation
that we were able to achieve. Likewise, only last week, the
Philippine Political Science Association had their professional
conference here in Dipolog and a number of them were one in
saying that what we have is a perfect example of how local
governments can innovate and forge collaborations to realize
inclusive growth and felt development by the people.
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The innovative transformation story should not end here. Let's
look at the 500 families whose lives were dramatically changed
after they were relocated from the coastal slum.
They now live in a better and functional community complete with
public utilities, education and health facilities, livelihood and
income opportunities. The local government's sincere intent to
save these people from imminent danger of natural disasters and
environmental decay far outweighed the political risks that
accompanied such transformation.
Our successes will be in vain if we are not able to sustain the
conditions that prevailed when we worked for it. This is where the
importance of maintaining our peace, order and security get into
play and we appreciate the efforts of the men and women of our
police, military, fire and rescue units.
A growing local economy coupled with lack of public vigilance is
often an ingredient of rising crimes. A good foresight and a
working plan is therefore needed to avert the proliferation of
criminality.
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Last month, the Dipolog Police Station under the leadership of
P/Supt. Hachuela, presented to the City's Peace and Order
Council what they call as LACAP or the Localized Anti-Criminality
Action Plan against Theft and Robbery. This particular plan calls
for a 60% massive reduction, if not total elimination, of theft and
robbery cases against present crime statistics. We need to
support PNP and AFP programs like this as it will definitely benefit
everyone.
(SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT)
I have always said that the heart of our governance
transformation is the effective and efficient delivery of various
social development services to our people.
Our performance in the health sector is one that is worthy of
admiration. We have maintained in the last three years -- that is
from 2012 to 2014 -- our ZERO MATERNAL DEATH record.
Likewise, our infant mortality rate has declined to a measly 0.007
percent. Also, our tuberculosis cure rate remains high at 90
percent, surpassing the Department of Health's 85 percent cure
target.
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Our steadfast dedication over the years to keep the general
health needs and welfare of our people has rewarded us. In 2014,
Dipolog City was bestowed the honor of being awarded the Red
Orchid Hall of Fame for our resolve to implement the NO
SMOKING campaign in all public places and conveyances.
Likewise, Dipolog City holds a Hall of Fame and has the singular
honor of being the only Mindanao city to be nominated in the
national level Child-Friendly City Award.
But these recognitions would spell bigger meaning if we can
likewise improve our nutrition record. As I speak now, we still
have 205 Dipolognon children who are suffering from malnutrition.
While this represents only a meager 1.1% of the total child
population of the City, we definitely should not stop until we arrest
this problem. We cannot stop until the last malnourished child
becomes healthy.
I therefore challenge our City Nutrition Office, City Health Office,
the City Social Welfare and Development Office, other relevant
units of the city government and our barangays to work hand-in-
hand and to work thoroughly to address this problem.
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I challenge you that instead of the target to lower malnutrition by
0.1 percent this year, let us do a breakthrough by erasing
malnutrition cases in Dipolog before I end my term as Mayor. Let
us target ZERO MALNUTRITION in Dipolog.
A growing city also has growing health needs. It is the dream of
my administration, with the full support of our doctor-Vice Mayor
and the Sangguniang Panlungsod, that we are able to provide
quality medical services to our people. This dream will come true
this year as we are set to open very soon the Corazon C. Aquino
Hospital of our city government.
This 150-bed capacity hospital follows the so-called Four As of
effectiveness of a hospital system, namely: Accessibility,
Availability, Affordability and Acceptability. The new city hospital
has the following facilities: Emergency Room, Operating Room,
Out-Patient Department, Pharmacy, Delivery Room, Labor Room,
Recovery Room, Nursery, Laboratory, Diagnostic Center and
others.
Again, we express our profound thanks to President Aquino for
bringing our dream into a reality. Finally, Dipolognons will have a
hospital that we can call as our own.
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Last year, I promised that the city government will continue
investing on our people through education. And that's exactly
what we did. That is actually what we have been doing ever since
the onset of this administration.
In close collaboration and partnership with the Department of
Education, the DPWH, Governor Roberto Uy, Congressman
Dodoy Labadlabad and the Federation of Filipino-Chinese
Chamber of Commerce, we set out on a mission to close the gap
of classroom deficit in our city. Among others, let me cite the
partnership that we are trying to forge with the Provincial
Government for the construction this year of an 80-classroom,
three-storey building at the Zamboanga del Norte National High
School.
While we are gaining grounds on classroom provision, we are set
to face yet another formidable challenge: The K-to-12 Program
which requires Kinder plus two additional years in our basic
education program.
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I am proud to announce that in our desire to fully prepare all
concerned, Dipolog was selected as one of the ten pilot cities of
the League of Cities of the Philippines for their Senior High
School (SHS) Program. In fact, our City Schools Division
Superintendent Victorina Perez prepared an impressive budget
proposal and action plan for the implementation of Senior High
School in Dipolog City. This will serve as the model action plan for
other LGUs in the implementation of SHS.
I am also committed to continue extending full support for poor
but deserving youths so they are able to continue their schooling.
We have at present a total of 40 scholarship grants made
available through the Alay Lakad Council. Those who cannot
afford college degree programs can be accommodated in the
Alternative Learning System of DepEd .
We have set our sights, together with DepEd, in ensuring that our
young people can have the best shot at education. Our goals are:
Every 6-year-old must be able to read; every 12-year-old must be
able to go to high school; every 16-year-old must be able to go to
college or to skills training centers; and every adult Dipolognon
must be able to keep on learning for a lifetime.
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Part of the city's collaborative innovation in delivering education
for all is the partnership of the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority or TESDA and the Dipolog City Livelihood
Skills Development and Enhancement Center (LSDEC).
A total of over 1.5-Million Pesos was invested by TESDA last year
in the form of scholarships under their Special Training for
Employment Program (STEP) and the Training for Work
Scholarship Program or TWSP. In 2014, a total of 224 people
benefitted from this partnership. These figures are in addition to
the 185 scholar grantees of the city government through LSDEC
who were trained and certified in Welding, Plumbing, Wheel-
loader, and Electrical Installation and Maintenance. These are no
longer numbers, no longer statistics of unemployment but
individuals who now have a greater chance of improving their
stake in life either as workers or entrepreneurs.
Meanwhile, a total of 1.9-Million Pesos was poured in by the
Department of Labor Employment (DOLE) through various
programs benefitting Dipolognons. Four-hundred young people,
including the one-hundred-forty out-of-school youth scholars of
the city government, benefitted from DOLE's Special Program for
the Employment of Students (SPES).
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Also implemented in 2014 are the Bicycle and Kayak Rental
Services Project for Out-of-School-Youths of Barangay Barra and
Estaka, respectively, and garments-making project at Barangay
Olingan.
(ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)
Dipolog's economy is growing by leaps and bounds. This is no
longer a cliche but a reality that is founded on hard evidence
supported by economic data.
Our 2014 figures reveal that new businesses registered during the
year posted a total of 138-Million Pesos of fresh capital infusion in
the local economy. Likewise, collection of business taxes and
fees for last year totaled 40.2-Million Pesos which is 7.6 percent
more than the collection in 2013. We thank the local business
community for religiously paying your business taxes.
Meantime, while the local economy remains bullish, property
development is also picking the upbeat pace. Last year, a total of
619 new buildings were constructed in our city at a total cost of
370-Million Pesos. Of these, 202-Million Pesos were for new
commercial and industrial buildings.
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It is therefore not surprising that banks have trained their sights
on Dipolog for their expansion. Aside from the 4 new banks which
opened in 2013, three others have located in Dipolog during the
first quarter of 2015.
Dipolog's viability as a business brand has been tried and tested
over the last couple of years and the challenge now is how we are
able to sustain investment interest. One way is for government to
give the kind of service that businesses deserve. Over the last
few years, your city government has seriously been working out
innovations and transformations to make processes more
business-friendly and to scale up our city's business
competitiveness.
One important breakthrough towards achieving this is the further
streamlining of our Business Permits and Licensing System or
BPLS. Starting with our Business-One-Stop-Shop in January of
this year, we have reduced the number of business registration
steps from the previous 11 to only FOUR STEPS.
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With the reduction in steps, processing time has likewise
dramatically reduced. On the average, we can expect that
processing time from submission of complete application to
releasing of computation of taxes and fees to be about 2 hours
per application. Permit applications filed in the morning will more
likely be approved and released the same day.
To avert reliance and heavy dependence of the local government
on its internal revenue allotment, there is a conscious effort to
improve generation of local income from our established Public
Economic Enterprises. In 2014, we were able to generate more
than 88-Million Pesos from our economic enterprises. Allow me to
recognize the following income centers in terms of their annual
collection:
* City Public Market contributed a total of 18.2-Million Pesos;
* Land Transport Terminal, 9.2-Million Pesos;
* Fishport, 5.7-Million Pesos;
* City Slaughterhouse, 3.6-Million Pesos;
* Motorpool, 2.7-Million Pesos; and
* Ice Plant, 2-Million Pesos.
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I congratulate the men and women of our economic enterprises
team headed by our City Administrator for their continuing effort to
reach their income goals and targets. Your efforts are greatly
appreciated.
A good leader knows that if performance is good, the worst thing
that can happen is for people to relax and lose the steam. That is
what we are always trying to avoid. I have therefore instructed our
City Investments Promotion Center to study the creation of an
Economic Development Board that will oversee the business
sustainability of our city's economic enterprises, as well as the
overall business competitiveness of Dipolog.
Of course, our marginalized farmers would not be left out. Still in
line with our goal of bringing inclusive growth to our people, our
Agriculture Office has launched last year the Dipolog Nature
Farming Program which aims to produce organic rice and
vegetables as a viable livelihood.
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At present, the program which is implemented in partnership with
DAR and DA has benefitted a total of 120 farmers. These farmers
underwent technical training on organic vegetable and rice
production. Their organic produce serves as a steady supply of
required food items for the 120-day feeding program of the City
Social Welfare and Development Office.
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An important ingredient to securing economic growth is the
massive investment by government in public infrastructure. This is
necessary not only to serve the requirements of growth but also to
generate mass employment, provide better access and deliver
services to the populace.
In 2014, the City Government implemented and accomplished
various infrastructure development projects to include roads and
bridges, school buildings and facilities, public buildings, drainage
and irrigation, amounting to a total of 103.5-Million Pesos.
Funding for these projects came from the national government,
the 20% economic development fund and other local sources.
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Allow me to once again express our city government's
appreciation to our national leadership and to our Governor
Roberto Uy and Congressman Dodoy Labadlabad for their
unwavering support to help us develop our beloved city.
Our winning of the Gawad Galing Pook for our Urban
Development Program has made us realize that investing for the
welfare of our people will bring remarkable rewards as it will also
have lasting impact on the many lives touched. The development
of the boulevard is an important infrastructure project as it is also
a significant undertaking on good governance, social and
economic development.
This realization was further validated when our city underwent an
investment prioritization and programming exercise in early
February of this year under the supervision of the Cities
Development Initiative in Asia or CDIA.
The investment programming exercise identified as our top
priority and flagship project the Integrated Urban Development
Program. This will take from the initial success of the first phases
of the Boulevard Foreshore Development Project.
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The master development plan to complete the boulevard includes
the reclamation and construction of an additional 2-kilometer
stretch of protective seawall and boulevard concourse. The
additional area will provide us the space to construct other
amenities such as additional commercial buildings and tourist
facilities to further boost business vibrancy and to generate
additional income opportunities for the people. Next to these is
the completion of the Dipolog Sea Port on one end of the
Boulevard in Galas and the rehabilitation and improvement of the
existing Dipolog Fishport at the other end.
This Port-to-Port Development as part of the integrated urban
development program will kick off the further development of our
city into an important hub for agri-aqua-and-light manufacturing
industries, as well as further boost our tourism arrivals.
(A COMMON VISION AND A SHARED FUTURE)
While it may be clear for me from my first day in office that I am to
make a difference as Mayor of this City, the entire bureaucracy
lacks the focus and the strategy to secure the growth that is at our
doorstep.
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A common vision and a shared future is what we developed as
one city when we took that first bold step in a long transformation
journey which began in late 2009 as we install Performance
Governance System (PGS) in the Dipolog City Government.
Five years ago, we crafted our long-term goal of becoming a God-
centered, peaceful and self-reliant super city by the year 2030.
We all know this as our City's Swigapore vision.
By 2014, we were selected as part of the 10 Philippine cities that
will pilot the Islands of Good Governance (IGG) Program. IGG is
a program that will prepare a showcase of cities highlighting the
competitiveness of the Philippines in time for the country's hosting
of the APEC Summit later this year.
IGG required a sharpening of the city's focus and identified a
unique and niche advantage for each of the participating city.
From there was born the Basecamp 2020 or medium-term vision
of Dipolog as the Center of Outdoor Sports of the South.
In the next five years, we expect to turn Dipolog as the preferred
venue of various outdoor sports competitions and events in the
country.
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The core innovation here is that the vision will use outdoor sports
as a hook to raise awareness, investments and generate
economic impact and sustain the city in the long term. Dipolog
Sports City is expected to facilitate the influx of visitors -- in large
groups, as opposed to the traditional tourism promotion approach
of targeting individual tourists, families and small groups.
From here, it will now be easy for Dipolog to take off and work on
achieving its greater aspiration and realize the Swigapore future.
PGS has set a new pulse, a drumbeat that changed not only the
pace of things at City Hall but also, and more importantly, a new
perspective of how to better address process improvements and
deliver goods and services with excellence.
Our early wins can be summed up by updates on some of our key
strategic initiatives.
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1) Maabi-abihong Dipolognon (Tourist-Friendly Barangay
Accreditation Program)
Following a criteria developed by the City Tourism Office,
Barangays worked on adopting and complying with the clean,
orderly, safe and congenial environment or COSCO requirement
to be accredited as a tourist-friendly barangay. Just a few weeks
ago, Barangay Olingan and Barangay Cogon were adjudged as
the Most Tourist-Friendly Barangays of Dipolog.
2) Development of Dipolog Sports Complex and Cogon Eco-Park
Master development plans for the Dipolog Sports Complex in
Olingan and the Cogon Eco-Park were developed aligned with the
aim of preparing these two areas as investment-ready facilities.
Various outdoor sports facilities are being planned for these two
areas either for PPP or external funding.
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3) Hapsay Kanunay (BPLS Improvement)
This particular initiative worked on improving the service delivery
for business permits and licensing system at City Hall. From a
previous total of 11 steps, an improved BPLS now only has 4
steps.
4) Dipolog's Best
This initiative is being shared by the City Cooperative Office,
LSDEC and the City Agriculture Office. A total of 8 community
associations were organized and registered by the Cooperative
Office with DOLE. These organizations were then trained by
LSDEC on the production of following Dipolog's Best products:
Pancit fortified with Moringga and Squash, Cassava Chips and
Bottled Sibuying Pickles.
After production, the City Agriculture is helping the associations
with marketing their products. Among the marketing agreements
entered by these community associations include the supplying
of pancit to DSWD for use in the latter's feeding program. It is
hoped that in the long-run Dipolog's Best can be sustained and
provide a steady income opportunity for the associations and its
members.
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5) Sporty Dipolog
This particular initiative is an ongoing advocacy campaign which
results in the engagement of each and every Dipolognon in at
least one sports activity. Offices assigned for this advocacy
targets for specific sectors such as business, youth and women.
The Office of the Vice Mayor is an active proponent of Sporty
Dipolog through the conduct of regular zumba exercises at Plaza
Magsaysay.
Each and every employee at City Hall associates himself or
herself to at least one initiative. This ensures that everyone aligns
and claims ownership and belongingness to one common vision
however small the contribution may be.
In a few weeks, I will be personally presenting before a Public
Revalida in Manila our activities and gains in relation to our city’s
transformation through PGS. I am positive that we will be able to
pass Proficiency, the second to the last stage of the PGS
governance pathway.
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(CONCLUDING PART)
In closing, I have always believed that good governance bear
fruits. After planting the seed of good governance, we are now
ready to harvest.
I would like to stress that innovation is a function of leadership
and governance to create and inspire transformation for local
development.
I express my gratitude to our Sangguniang Panlungsod under the
able leadership of our Vice Mayor for their commitment and for
playing an important role in steering the wheel of progress
through enactment of legislative measures for the betterment of
each and every Dipolognon.
After today, I will only have a little over four hundred days in office
as City Mayor. I will devote that one year in ensuring that I leave a
continuing legacy of good governance and inclusive growth.
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As I leave the post of City Mayor next year, I can tell myself that I
have been successful in my try to inspire my fellow Dipolognons
to rally behind their government and work towards that legacy,
towards one common vision and towards a shared future for all.
Dipolog may be a small place in terms of sheer size but our
dreams are big. Let me tell you the good news: WE ARE
GETTING THERE.
Daghang salamat ug maayong hapon sa tanan.