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NAGA CITY CELEBRATES BIRTH, USHERS CHRISTMAS SEASON WITH KAMUNDAGAN FESTIVAL 2018 This quarterly magazine is published by the City Government of Naga, Vol. 9, No. 4 October - December 2018 thru the City Events, Protocol and Public Information A Quarterly Magazine of the Office, with editorial office at City Government of Naga City Hall Compound, Bicol, Philippines J. Miranda Avenue, Naga City 4400 Philippines
ISSN 2094-9383 Tel: +63 54 881-8328 +63 54 871-3098 Email: [email protected] Web: www.naga.gov.ph
PHOTO BY REYNALDO BAYLON TABLE OF CONTENTS
TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE CITY EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES Publishers, librarians FEATURES 25 learn ways on assisting unsighted researchers Mayor’s Message Naga’s eSkwela-BLW 3 39 program is 2018 Galing Pook awardee Naga Nutri Ataman The “An Maogmang Lugar” logo is Former SPED students - 47 beneficiares an attempt to capture Naga as we Naga City celebrates birth, 26 open skills training hub receive Christmas want it to be – a city that is progressive 5 ushers Christmas season with SOCIAL WELFARE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT gifts from city gov’t Kamundagan Festival 2018 and yet environment-friendly, where Nagueño students excel The “Naga SMILES to the World” the people freely participate in the 27 in nat’l sports, music Maogmang Lugar adopts logo is composed of the two competitions 42 day-to-day affairs of the government, 15 Naga City inks twinning curfew hours for minors Honest trimobile baybayin characters, na and ga. 49 driver commended and where culture and arts are
LIVELIHOOD, EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT flourishing. Na, shaped like a mountain, HEALTH AND NUTRITION TO BE INCLUDED IN provides a strong foundation for the 45 HS CURRICULUM Honest trimobile The stylized design of “NAGA” AT NAGA SUMMIT City gov’t to hold series of 50 driver praised Narra tree which grew abundantly ICT-BPO leaders see represents the city’s aggressive Naga celebrates World AIDS Day discussions to develop along the Naga River while a zigzag 17 30 vibrant, anti-drug abuse program march towards modernization and line denotes the majestic Malabsay rosy prospect for the progress. The sky-blue background, industry Falls. LGU-Naga HIV-AIDS prevention the Narra tree, and the Naga River 18 campaign continues represent our people’s desire for an PEACE AND ORDER AND PUBLIC SAFETY SP HIGHLIGHTS Ga, shaped like a farmer’s plow, ecologically-balanced community. is symbolic of the Nagueño’s AS WORSENING agricultural roots and hardworking Naga City People’s Mall The ring of people surrounding the YOUTH EPIDEMIC Nelson S. Legacion Joselito SA. Del Rosario personality. 19 33 holds first earthquake 53 City Vice Mayor 75 City Councilor entire design shows the Nagueños’ City dad warns on rising HIV and drill for market stall AIDS cases tenants, customers Cecilia De Asis Vidal P. Castillo participatory mechanism which is The baybayin Naga characters 58 City Councilor 79 City Councilor part and parcel of the city’s way rest on a wave-like element which of doing things. It also shows the EDUCATION, ARTS, CULTURE AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT Naga online emergency represents the Naga River and the Esteban Gregorio R. 35 response app tops PH 61 Aboanal III Ray An Cydrick G. Rentoy people’s concern and unity in serpent, which is read in Sanskrit Digital Cities Gov’t Inter- City Councilor 83 City Councilor everything that is good for the city. DepEd lauds LGU-Naga support operability Awards as naga. in Brigada Eskwela 21 Jose C. Ra ñola Today, the city, as Maogmang Lugar, CLEANLINESS AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION 63 City Councilor Salvador Del Castillio This new branding for Naga, aims to portray more than a happy City College of Naga achieves 85 City Councilor launched in 2010 by the dynamic 22 high rating in board exams Elmer S. Baldemoro place but a happy people who are the 68 City Councilor Bongat administration, envisions a LGU-Naga adds new dump true beneficiaries of everything good 36 trucks to better city Antonio B. Beltran more livable city that is world-class. garbage collection, waste Mila SD. Raquid-Arroyo 87 City Councilor that is happening in the city. Naga NCF Tigers lands PCCL management 71 City Councilor 24 Final Four Julian C. Lavadia Mary Kayle Francine B. Tripulca
Plastic ban talks in 74 City Councilor 89 City Councilor 38 Naga underway
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Warm Naga SMILES!
this time of the year, as another one unfolds, we tend to look back and see how far we have come. In this last quarter’s issue of the Naga SMILES Magazine for the year 2018, we bring you the many accomplishments that not only the City Government, but also every Nagueño, had— recognitions in sports,AT music, and in academics that continuously bring us pride as a city, knowing that we excel in various fields of learning; introduction to further technological innovations that help in the advancement of our services in government; updating of the existing policies to effectively address societal menace; empowerment of the least economically resilient sectors thru the creation of opportunities; establishment of new partnerships with other municipalities and cities for sharing of knowledge for growth; individual and collective undertakings of the city council in their respective sectors of assignments inclusive of their term as lawmakers in the city—infrastructure, employment generation, human resource capacity building, among others that greatly benefitted the community; and celebration of notable deeds and practices— milestones best to end the year with.
In all these glory and triumphs that we had for the past 70 years since Naga’s birth as a Chartered City, we will always be looking back to remember the sacrifices and carry on with us the lessons of the past as we face another year with a renewed commitment to do more and be more of ourselves for others and for the city.
This season of thanksgiving, let it be that the priceless gifts of care and support that we have for each other as one City of Naga be the greatest gift that we will cherish as Nagueños.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! PHOTO BY
JOSE COLLERA
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PHOTOS BY JOSE COLLERA | REYNALDO BAYLON | RACSO VITAN NAGA CITY CELEBRATES BIRTH, USHERS CHRISTMAS SEA ON WITH KAMUNDAGAN FESTIVAL 2018 By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO
EEMING with lights and colors on the dusk of December 1, 2018, was the Plaza Quezon at the downtown centro-Naga with its Disneyland-inspired theme as the City Government of Naga welcomes the month of December for this year—the month of Christmas season— with a colorful parade and merriment in the opening ceremonies of the Kamundagan Festival 2018.
As the yearly practice, the 27 barangays of Naga, clad in their creatively-crafted TChristmas costumes portraying varied characters and stories— Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus;
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HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA HOTEL ALICE IN WONDERLAND MOANA DEPARTMENTS! CONGRATULATIONS THIS TO PLACE: 1ST THEME: 2ND PLACE: KAMUNDAGAN FESTIVAL 2018 KAMUNDAGAN FESTIVAL PARADEINTER-OFFICE COSTUME OFFICES HALL THE CITY OF MANAGEMENT SOLID WASTE OFFICE (SWMO) CITY TREASURER’S OFFICE (CTO) TREASURER’S CITY THEME: 3RD PLACE: OFFICE (CEO) ENGINEER’S CITY THEME: RACSO VITAN
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| JOSE COLLERA PHOTOS BY BY PHOTOS PAGE 11 CONTINUED ON The Solid Waste Management Office Management Office The Solid Waste is the the event the highlights of One of with the theme centering on sci-fi, animated animated on sci-fi, with the theme centering showcased offices Hall City where movies in ‘Alice concepts ranging from varied and to Transylvania’, ‘Hotel to Wonderland’, among others. ‘Moana’, Transylvania- (SWMO), with their Hotel themed costume got the first place in by the City the competition, followed who placed second Office (CTO) Treasurer’s and the City Engineers Office (CEO) who their Alice in Wonderland with placed third costumes respectively. and Moana-themed Christmas Lighting Ceremony Synchronized up lit was Tree Christmas giant the where who graced the as led by the city officials opening ceremonies. Barangay Bagumbayan Sur champed Sur champed Barangay Bagumbayan the is year this for done be Firstto Santa Claus; Santa Elves; the Journey the Journey Elves; Santa Claus; Santa Bethlehem; and the Birthto Christ, of that among others—parade the joined streets— the main city in made its round culminating at the Plaza Quezon where in the Kamundagan competing barangays Exhibition and Street Kirikiti 2018 Festival their varied Dance Competition showcased performances the cheering crowd before and judges. Dance, Best in Costume the Best in Street and Best in Exhibition Dance categories the competition— making them as this of Champion again for the Overall year’s 2016. time since third competition Parade Costume Inter-Office OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 OCTOBER
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COMPETING BARANGAYS IN THE KAMUNDAGAN FESTIVAL 2018 KIRIKITI STREET AND EXHIBITION DANCE COMPETITION SHOWCASED THEIR VARIED PERFORMANCES BEFORE THE CHEERING CROWD AND JUDGES.
PLAZA QUEZON, NAGA CITY PHOTO BY
JOHNELL CABUSAS
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First Lady Farah Bongat chaired again this year’s Kamundagan Festival 2018, with city councilors Cecilia de Asis and Elmer Baldemoro directing the Opening Ceremonies and Synchronized Lighting, and the Kirikiti Street and Exhibition Dance Competition respectively.
Aside from Christmas celebration, Kamundagan Festival also signifies the birth of the City of Naga as a chartered city—an Independent Component City as inaugurated last December 15, 1948—and so aims to showcase as well the arts and culture of the Nagueños.
Other activities lined-up for the Kamundagan Festival 2018 include the Yuledance Concert and the Naga City Hall Chorale Concert, among others.
PHOTOS BY JOSE COLLERA | REYNALDO BAYLON | RACSO VITAN
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CONGRATULATIONS! TO THIS YEAR’S WINNERS IN THE KAMUNDAGAN FESTIVAL 2018 KIRIKITI STREET AND EXHIBITION DANCE COMPETITION!
BEST IN COSTUME: BARANGAY BAGUMBAYAN SUR
BEST IN STREET DANCE: BARANGAY BAGUMBAYAN SUR
BEST IN EXHIBITION DANCE: BARANGAY BAGUMBAYAN SUR
OVERALL CHAMPION: BARANGAY BAGUMBAYAN SUR
1ST RUNNER UP: BARANGAY STA. CRUZ
2ND RUNNER UP: BARANGAY BAGUMBAYAN NORTE
3RD RUNNER UP: BARANGAY SABANG
4TH RUNNER UP: BARANGAY TRIANGULO
5TH RUNNER UP: BARANGAY IGUALDAD
6TH RUNNER UP: BARANGAY PEÑAFRANCIA
7TH RUNNER UP: BARANGAY CAROLINA
8TH RUNNER UP: BARANGAY PACOL
9TH RUNNER UP: BARANGAY SAN ISIDRO
10TH RUNNER UP: BARANGAY CONCEPCION GRANDE
DRONE PHOTO BY PLAZA QUEZON, NAGA CITY JOY SAN CARLOS 13 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 CITY EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
UNLEASHING DEVELOPMENT POTENTIALS. THE CITY OF NAGA AND MUNICIPALITY OF SAN PASCUAL, MASBATE, SIGNED A TWINNING AGREEMENT DURING THE MNDC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING---FORGING AND STRENGTHENING THEIR LINKAGES IN TOURISM, HEALTH, EDUCATION AND ECONOMY TO INCREASE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, AND PROMOTE LONG-LASTING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NAGA CITY AND SAN PASCUAL.
On the one hand, being a jump-off point of tourists traveling to well-known vacation destinations like the province of Masbate, Naga City can also benefit with the use of facilities of tourists in the city— providing further opportunities for businesspersons to widen the scope of their market.
Municipal Mayor Zacarina Lazaro of San Pascual, Masbate said that they are expectant of the many possibilities that their twinning agreement with Naga City can bring for further development in their municipality, especially in terms of health and education.
San Pascual has since been benefitting from the medical services in Naga City with the latter’s more favorable condition in terms of location and distance in cases of emergencies.
Moreover, Mayor Lazaro confirmed that many of the students in San Pascual are having their studies in Naga City.
In terms of commerce and industry, businesspersons in San Pascual has since been engaged in trading with Naga City.
On the other hand, Mayor Lazaro also affirmed their support in Naga City in terms of PHOTOS BY NAGA CITY INKS tourism, in which they (San Pascual) have been known for. WITH Earlier in July, the municipality of San Pascual, Masbate had joined the Metro Naga
TWINNING AGREEMENT JOSE COLLERA Development Council (MNDC) to establish linkage and partnership with Metro Naga for SAN PASCUAL, MASBATE By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO further development.
Local Government Unit (LGU) of the City of Naga and the municipality of San Pascual, Masbate signed a twinning agreement between the two (2) THElocalities during the MNDC Executive Committee Meeting last October 5, 2018.
The twinning agreement aimed at enhancing the cooperation of the two (2) LGUs in the development of different sectors particularly those of economy, education, health, and tourism among others.
Naga City Mayor John Bongat said that the City of Naga can help the municipality of San Pascual particularly in the development of education and health in the municipality, since Naga has been known as the center of education, health and wellness in the Bicol Region.
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city government of Naga is continuously Grace E. Guevara of the Naga City Social Hygiene Clinic pursuing its relentless campaign against said that aside from AHF, the local government is getting HIV and AIDS with the Department of support from the Department of Education for its campaign Education and the AIDS Healthcare to stop the rapidly spreading epidemic by not only informing THEFoundation Philippines. the youth about the evils of HIV and AIDS but by empowering them also to practice the 5 measures set for HIV prevention. This was given emphasis by Medical Technologist Nenet Ortega, country program manager of AIDS Healthcare Foundation GUEVARA ENUMERATED THEM AS: (AHF) Philippines, in an interview during the celebration here of the World AIDS Day 2018. A for “Abstinence” or “Abstain from sex”, which is most applicable to our children and the young population Ortega assured the public of her agency’s support to put a who should delay for as long as possible their engagement stop in the increasing HIV and AIDS cases in the province. Naga in sexual activity and this would serve as a platform for and Camarines Sur had the highest HIV and AIDS cases from strengthening the Catholic teaching that sex should only be 1984 to June 2018 that went to 321 after having registered 49 done within the sanctity of marriage; LGU-NAGA cases within a period of 6 months from January to June, this year. B for “Be mutually faithful”, a measure reminding all HIV-AIDS AHF funds its mission to rid the world of AIDS through a of us to be true to the vows of fidelity that we promised our network of pharmacies, thrift stores, healthcare contracts and lifetime partners; well, in case A and B are not applicable, PREVENTION other strategic partnerships. Generating new, innovative ways of treatment, prevention and advocacy has been the hallmark of C is for “Correct and Consistent Condom Use” which our success. It is currently leading a mass testing initiative to we should promote in the context of HIV and STI prevention CAMPAIGN identify and treat the 25 million people who are unaware they and not in opposition to the Catholic procreation dogma; CONTINUES are infected. D is for “Don’t reuse injecting needles and paraphernalia”, “Don’t drink excessive alcohol” and “Don’t do By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO drugs” because they impair the fair judgment of individuals causing them to engage in risky behavior that increases the chances of acquiring HIV infection; and finally, THE WORLD AIDS DAY IS BEING CELEBRATED HERE EVERY YEAR TO E is for “Education, Early detection and treatment.” Early detection has saved many lives though prevention of PHOTOS BY REYNALDO BAYLON MARK THE MILESTONES THAT THE the progress of HIV infection to AIDS. CITY HAS ACHIEVED IN ITS CAMPAIGN the increasing cases from January to June this year compared to 4 cases only from that AGAINST THE DREADED DISEASE The World AIDS Day is being celebrated here every number of Human of the same period last year, Grace Guevara, a Medical Technologist of the ASIDE FROM THE GROWING NUMBER year to mark the milestones that the city has achieved Immunodeficiency Naga City Social Hygiene Clinic, said they are more aggressive to further OF PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATE IN in its campaign against the dreaded disease aside from Virus (HIV) and the campaign against the spread of HIV infection thru the conduct of same the growing number of people who participate in various WITHAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) summits to educate the community and raise their awareness on the issue. VARIOUS ACTIVITIES THAT AIM TO activities that aim to control the spread of HIV cases being reported recently in the Bicol Region, and AIDS infection. CONTROL THE SPREAD OF HIV AND particularly in Naga City, the City Government of Guevara said that thru such activities, they aim to encourage individuals, AIDS INFECTION. Naga, thru the City Health Office (CHO), together particularly those engaging in risky sexual behaviors, to take the test so as to with the Department of Health (DOH), conducted be treated early on those infected with the virus. an HIV summit to campaign for the prevention of the infection. With the increasing percentage of HIV cases among the 15-24 age group, Guevara also strongly urged the parents to guide their children, PHOTO BY SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR With the theme, “Finding creative ways to put particularly the teenagers, so as to avoid their engagement in risky sexual an end on AIDS”, the summit aims to remind and activities. share with the community the possible means to stop the widespread of the HIV virus. Aside from the conduct of awareness campaigns like summits, other activities and programs being initiated by LGU-Naga include HIV screening Barangay officials, health representatives, and training of community-based screening agents, among others. students, and personnel from the academe in Naga City attended the summit, October 15. The World AIDS Day will be celebrated, December 1, to further the awareness of the With the increasing number of HIV-AIDS citizens on HIV-AIDS. cases being reported every year— reaching 13
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of people who actually have HIV because AS WORSENING some refuse to be tested or do not know where and how to get tested, especially YOUTH EPIDEMIC in urban areas.”
Latest data by the DOH epidemiology bureau in Manila show CITY DAD that the predominant modes of HIV transmission are: ON Male to male sex and bisexuality WARNS (sex with both males and females) RISING HIV AND AIDS CASES – 84% JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO By Male to female sex – 11%
Sharing of infected needles – 4%
ITY COUNCILOR JOSE Naga City Social Hygiene Clinic that the Infected mother-to-child – 0.3% increasing cases of HIV and AIDS have “SONNY” C. RAOLA, Rañola said that it is fortunate that in his privilege speech no sign of declining or slowing down. Moreover, even sexually transmissible in Naga such efforts are complemented yesterday, raised the by legislation against discrimination and alarm on the rising infections (STIs) cases among young boys and girls also continue in upward top-level multi-sectoral efforts. Naga cases of HIV/AIDS Bicol Region. In February 2018, Naga had City has a gender fairness ordinance, and other sexually trend. 95 confirmed cases. These figures may be BY THE peer education ordinance, and an HIV/ transmitted diseases LATEST DATA DOH low compared to other regions, but the AIDS Council. “Perhaps we need to push in this city, which From January to September 2018, EPIDEMIOLOGY BUREAU IN MANILA prospect of these numbers multiplying Gonorrhea has chalked up 64 cases of more. Build stronger coordination among he said “no sign of decreasing or SHOW THAT THE PREDOMINANT rapidly is always there if loosen our guards all stakeholders and strengthen more Cslowing down even among young individuals with the predominant age down, or to fail to do enough to control or of 18 and 19; syphilis, 9 cases with the MODES OF HIV TRANSMISSION ARE: our crusade and political will against boys and girls.” stop HIV infections from further spreading. the deadly virus and how to respond predominant age of19 and 23; hepatitis B, 7 cases with the predominant age of to problems facing the community and Rañola, who co-chairs the Rañola, who is also the chair of probable patients, he added. Naga City Health Board with Mayor 20. Sangguniang Panlungsod’s Committee John G. Bongat, said that among on Health, said that HIV is a sexually “I am here not to push the panic MALE TO MALE SEX “We should inform our people the cities and provinces in Bicol, WE transmitted infection. It can also be that anyone can get free HIV testing Naga and Camarines Sur had the button. I am here not only as a doctor, AND % spread by contact with infected blood or but as a concerned citizen who would BISEXUALITY in our social hygiene clinic and that highest HIV/AIDS cases from 1984 SHOULD (SEX WITH BOTH MALES 84 from mother to child during pregnancy, ARV treatments are shouldered by the to 2018 that went to 321 after having like to serve this warning against a AND FEMALES) childbirth or breast-feeding. Without INFORM deadly disease that never stops to government. We should not tire in registered 49 cases within a period of 6 medication, it may take years before HIV teaching our people to practice safe sex months from January to June, this year. stare us in the face,” says Rañola who weakens one’s immune system to the OUR recommended that children should be and encourage them to use condom for point that you have AIDS. safer measure,” he said. He said that the people getting taught to avoid risky behavior and the infected are getting younger, with ages PEOPLE HIV testing age should also be lowered MALE TO “There’s no cure for HIV/AIDS, to allow minors to avail of the service. % No less than the National Youth ranging from 15 to 24, which is also true THAT ANYONE FEMALE SEX but there are medications that can Commission (NYC) has expressed fear in the Bicol Region. Those infected with 11 CAN GET dramatically slow down the progression that the HIV/AIDS spread is becoming STD also involve younger patients – from Within the same period of the disease. These drugs have reduced (January-September 2018), the a worsening “youth epidemic” in our 15 to 34 years. AIDS deaths in many developed nations. country. It said that: “The HIV epidemic Social Hygiene Clinic was able to But HIV continues to decimate populations FREE register 16 cases of HIV/AIDS, in our country has a new face and it is the It can be observed from the in Africa, Haiti and parts of Asia, including face of a young person.” records made available by the all males with ages ranging the Philippines, which has been cited by from 17 to 43 years old. SHARING OF % Epidemiology Bureau of the HIV the World Health Organization to have Citing official statistics, the NYC INFECTED NEEDLES Department of Health and the 4 the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the confirmed that 62 percent of new HIV TESTING world,” he said. cases in the country in 2016 were among IN OUR young people between 15 and 24 years While Bicol may not be among the old. SOCIAL regions in the country with alarmingly high incidence of HIV cases where the National An NYC Commissioner stated INFECTED % Capitol Region has 41%, Calabarzon HYGIENE MOTHER-TO-CHILD clearly that: “Out of the 29 Filipinos who CLINIC 0.3 has 15%, Central Luzon has 11%, and get infected every day in the Philippines, AND THAT ARV Central Visayas that include Cebu has more than half or 19 are 15 to 24 years 9% compared to the Bicol Region’s 3%, old. Twenty-five out of the 29 are 15 to TREATMENTS ARE Camarines Sur and Naga, according to the SHOULDERED BY THE 30 years old.” GOVERNMENT. DOH Regional Office based in Legazpi City have the highest reported cases of HIV/ “With the prevalence of the WE SHOULD NOT TIRE IN AIDS from 1984 to 2018. epidemic set at a “fast and furious” TEACHING OUR PEOPLE Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome rate, we should be doubling, or even TO PRACTICE SAFE SEX (AIDS) is a chronic, potentially life- Surely, the numbers are bad which tripling or quadrupling our efforts now AND ENCOURAGE THEM threatening condition caused by the human could even get worse, considering that in coordination with every stakeholder TO USE CONDOM FOR immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging the statistics, especially for HIV and AIDS, – including families and the academe SAFER MEASURE. one’s immune system, HIV interferes with are based only on who get tested and not and all sectors of society so that we can human body’s ability to fight the organisms on the entire population of the city or overtake and rise above this problem, that cause the disease. province. stop it in its track and thereby, avoid its tragic consequences to society and our In June 2018, Camarines Sur recorded a As one expert, looking at the economy.,” Rañola concluded. PHOTO BY SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR total of 321 cases out of 868 in the whole of the statistics, said: “This is an underestimate
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CITY COLLEGE OF NAGA ACHIEVES HIGH RATING IN BOARD EXAMS By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO
DepEd LAUDS LGU-NAGA SUPPORT PHOTOS BY SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR IN BRIGADA ESKWELA By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (DEPED) DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (DepEd) Central CENTRAL OFFICE AND Office and Deped Region V recognized Naga City DepEd REGION V as Diamond awardee in the 2018 Gawad Brigada RECOGNIZED THE NAGA CITY AS DIAMOND Awards held last October 18 and 19, 2018 at Masbate City. AWARDEE IN THE 2018 GAWAD BRIGADA The 2018 Gawad Brigada Diamond Award is the highest AWARDS HELD LAST award being conferred by DepEd to three (3) Local Government OCTOBER 18 AND 19, 2018 AT Units (LGUs) that include Naga City this year. MASBATE CITY.
In his facebook post, Mayor John Bongat said that Naga City has long been supportive of the Brigada Eskwela Program of the Deped. Yearly, city government officials and city hall employees join the clean-up drive among public schools before classes begin THE 2018 every month of June, as directed by Mayor Bongat. GAWAD BRIGADA IKE any other schools in the city that achieve high With the city government, under Bongat’s leadership and Bongat also thanked the Naga City Local Government Unit DIAMOND AWARD percentage ratings in board examinations, the City supervision, CCN is expanding its services and operations as it will acquire Employees Association (NACILGUEA), headed by Anselmo Maño, IS THE HIGHEST AWARD College of Naga (CCN) has its own place when it comes its own P28-M building, a 2-storey 8-classroom edifice, in a 3 ha parcel of for adopting all public schools for the first time this year as BEING CONFERRED BY DepEd TO THREE (3) LOCAL to producing good number of successful examinees. land along Almeda highway in Barangay Concepcion Grande. Brigada Eskwela beneficiaries. GOVERNMENT UNITS (LGUS) THAT INCLUDE NAGA CITY Ernani Suron, the head of the Education, Sports and THIS YEAR. This was underscored by James Nathaniel Refugio, The site, from which the city’s Central Business District III shall rise, Scholarships Office (ESSO) who received the award in behalf of director of CCN Student and Alumni Affairs Office, after will also be the location of 6 other facilities of the LGU: Physical Therapy the City Government of Naga affirmed the huge support being Mayor John G. Bongat commended the city government- and Rehabilitation Center, City Health Office 2, Convention Center, Life given by LGU-Naga in the implementation of the Brigada Eskwela run school because of its accomplishment this year in Counselling Center, Evacuation Center, and the Emergency Command or National Schools Maintenance Week. The Sangguniang the November 3-4 midwifery licensure examinations which were held in Center. Panlungsod of the City of Naga already institutionalized the same Manila. thru the QUEEN Program ordinance, authored by Vice Mayor Private individuals, organizations and institutions were also recognized by DepEd L Nelson Legacion, as well as the Education Code of Naga City, for their support in the implementation of Brigada Eskwela— helping generate funds authored by City Councilor Gregorio Abonal. for the needed construction and repairs of classrooms and other school facilities. Of the 14 examinees, 11 passed the board examinations, a feat that traditionally achieved by the school since 70s when it was still Camarines Other awards being conferred in the ceremony are Bronze, This year, LGU-Naga was able to give around P 20M financial assistance to DepEd- Sur Community College. CSCC, operating then under the auspices of Silver and Gold awards, among others. Naga City. the provincial government, was located near the Camarines Sur National High School in Peñafrancia Avenue, this city.
Registered Midwife Mary Licca Salamanque, who joined this year’s batch of board passers, said it was the school’s all-out support and motivation that helped them to do well in the exams in addition to the encouragements of their respective family members and friends.
“I wish that the good job we did in the exams would inspire aspiring RMs to hurdle also the test,” she says. PHOTOS BY REYNALDO BAYLON
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LERCS GIRLS UNDERWENT NAGA NCF TRAINING AT SPORTS CAMP TIGERS JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO By LANDS 2-DAY SPORTS CAMP reeled off last weekend here with PCCL FINAL F UR 150 young girls from the city’s Less Economically Resilient Communities (LERCs) participated in the activity. The camp was conducted at the University of Nueva Caceres last December 8-9, this year. AA sports symposium, which was attended by students and community athletes, was conducted ahead of the camp proper.
Organized by the Girls Got Game (GGG) Philippines in partnership with the city government, the camp is a sports activity for girls, which aims to equip the would-be athletes whose ages range from 10-12 years old, with an athlete’s mind and body.
Mariana Lopa, GGG managing director, said they wanted that “these pre-teen girls from difficult economic situations be provided with help to rise out of their current situations. We want to empower these young women by way of sports.”
SOURCE PHOTO BY PCCL PAGE By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO
AGA COLLEGE FOUNDATION (NCF) Tigers basketball team will be representing Luzon in the National Collegiate Championship of the
GIRLS GOT GAME GIRLS GOT Philippine Collegiate Champions’ League (PCCL) on December 6-7, 2018.
This after the team won against the University of Batangas (UB) SOURCE PHOTOS BY BY SOURCE PHOTOS in the championship of the South Luzon Qualifying Games, 84-68— Nallowing them to advance in the Luzon/NCR Regional Championships held here in Naga City last November 29- December 1, wherein they defeated both Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University, 79-47; and Colegio de San Juan de Letran, 68-65.
The passionate former athletes coming from different universities The camp runs for four consecutive days in various locations like Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, the University of around the Philippines, with a focus on less affluent areas. It was started Being only in the top 8 last year, NCF Tigers is now in the PCCL Final Four, together the Philippines, and other schools in Metro Manila who compose the in 2015 and is set to conduct 5-6 camps every year. GGG advocates with San Beda University who champed the NCAA, the UAAP champion and the Visayas/ group taught the girls how to play basketball, volleyball, football, and all sports that instill the values of discipline, hard work, teamwork, rugby games. confidence, and grit. PHOTOS BY JOSE COLLERA Mindanao regional champion— the teams who will be competing in the PCCL National During the camp, athletes are trained physically with skills Collegiate Championship. Erick Jason Salvino, project manager of Ginhawang Nagueño, said and drills per sport, followed by a friendly scrimmage. They are also the camp came as a big opportunity for the participants whose families given mental and emotional training by female role models who share were beneficiaries of the city government’s various empowerment personal stories about their own experiences with sports. Ultimately, our NCF Tigers will be competing against Visayas/Mindanao Regional Champion programs on Less Economically Resilient Communities. vision is to empower young Filipinas with important life lessons through sports. in the Best of Three Games to advance in the Knockout Game against UAAP/NCAA champion.
PHOTOS BY REYNALDO BAYLON Francia Barja, the sports coordinator of the City Government of Naga, said that they highly commend the achievement of the school as it reflects the quality of sports education in Naga City and the value of sports being upheld by the city govenrment thru its various sports programs.
Barja also said that it has been the city’s aim to produce professional players who can compete in the various national and international games.
23 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 24 EDUCATION, ARTS, CULTURE AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT PUBLISHERS, LIBRARIANS LEARN WAYS ON ASSISTING UNSIGHTED RESEARCHERS Life goes on. By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO FORMER SPED STUDENTS
was reiterated by one of OPEN SKILLS local government unit here is not only services they need when they conduct research works at the library. the former students of the constructing wheelchair ramps and other Department of Education’s EDUCATION, ARTS, CULTURE AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT facilities to see to it that the rights and well- “With this project, we hope that people who cannot see would Special Education (SPED) TRAINING THISprogram who felt overwhelmed when the Naga City being of persons with disability (PWDs) are also benefit from the goods and services made available to the general THEproperly observed. public. That is what Mayor Bongat wants” says Domer. Post-SPED Vocational Skills Training Center (NCVSTC) was finally inaugurated last Monday, November 19, Today, the city government thru its Resource Center for the It was stated in the project’s rationale that students with print Blind (RCB) will conduct training/seminar to more than a hundred disability are facing a severe shortage of course books that come in The completion of the facility, which will serve as publishers, librarians, and library personnel from public and private Braille, large print, and audio format that would have allowed them “boot camp” for the young PWDs to feel prepared and schools, colleges, and universities in the city to equip them with to study or do a research work without being provided with complete strong, came after 3 years when parents and guardians knowledge on how to assist researchers who are visually-impaired or assistance. of former SPED students proposed its establishment HUBBy JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO with print disability. to the city government. Based on the study conducted by the World Blind Union (WBU), Partnering with RCB, which is a component of the city mayor’s less than 10 percent of all published materials are available in formats SPED teacher and NCVSTC coordinator Norelyn office, in pursuing the project is the Department of Education in the that can be read and perused by people living with print disability and N. Oco said the center will operate as “one happy city and the provincial office of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA). many of these materials are available in English alone. place where former SPED students will develop their The activity, which will also obtain participation from local journalists, skills in preparation for employment so that they can will be conducted at the Museo ni Jesse Robredo Amphitheater. Visually-challenged Felix Chavez, an RCB staff, said the training- be able to live productively despite their handicaps.” seminar will provide the participants with the basic knowledge and Tess M. Domer, RCB officer-in-charge, said the activity skills to interact with PWDs, a situation that will give way for inclusive The former SPED students joining the center are serves as a facility to train publishers, librarians and library staff education and development. those with intellectual disability, developmental delay, on how to provide visually-challenged individuals with the orthopedic handicap and cerebral palsy.
In an interview, a parent said that they PHOTOS BY REYNALDO BAYLON pushed for the establishment of the center with the city government, which is housed at the Naga City Children’s Center, after their sons and daughters had completed their basic education thru its special education program.
FORMER STUDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S SPECIAL EDUCATION (SPED) PROGRAM WITNESS THE INAUGURATION OF THE NAGA CITY POST-SPED VOCATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING CENTER AT THE NAGA CITY CIVIC CENTER. OFFICIATING THE BLESSING OF THE FACILITY IS REV. FR. REX HIDALGO OF ST. JUDE THADDEUS PARISH. ALSO IN PHOTO IS CITY THEY [PWDs] COUNCILOR ELMER BALDEMORO WHO CHAIRS THE SANGGUNIANG CAN BE HIRED, PANLUNGSOD’S COMMITTEES ON PWD AND CHILDREN. JBN/NO ONCE THEY FINISHED “Our children always wanted to go back to school because they always find staying at THEIR TRAINING, home monotonous and unexciting. But the DepEd cannot admit them anymore as they have AS ATTENDANTS IN reached the age limit and have already completed the basic education,” he said. Oco explained that because of inactivity or idleness, most of the post-SPED students LAUNDRY SHOPS, got bored, a situation that usually ended up in tantrums and bad temper that most of the times cannot be contained even by their parents. “With the completion of this facility, we can HOTELS, AND OTHER be sure that we are doing a great job for these former SPED students,” she said.
BUSINESSES WHERE Mayor John Bongat said the center will cater to young PWD individuals to be able to acquire skills like cooking, gardening/landscaping, or cellphone repair/electronics or laundry THEY CAN BE GOOD for them to be able to earn a living. “They [PWDs] can be hired, once they finished their training, as attendants in laundry shops, hotels, and other businesses where they can be good AND DEPENDABLE and dependable workers,” he said.
WORKERS The mayor also thanked the parents of post-PWD students for approaching his office about the proposal to put up the center.
25 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 26 EDUCATION, ARTS, CULTURE AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT
NAGUEÑO STUDENTS IN NAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL (NCS) EXCEL NAT’L CHILDREN’S RONDALLA SPORTS, MUSIC COMPETITIONS By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO
AGA City took home a total of seven (7) gold Besmonte (Naga College Foundation), who won one (1) gold medals in the recently concluded Batang Pinoy in the Kyorugi event, Junior Male category. National Finals 2018. Naga City also bagged a total of seven (7) silver medals in The sports event was held last September the same events — one (1) in Gymnastics as won again by Maria 17-22, 2018 in Baguio City. Rafaela Payte (St. Joseph School); one (1) in Pencak Silat as N won by Jocel B. Sazon (Camarines Sur National High School); Student-athletes from the different schools and three (3) in Swimming, represented by Julius P. V asquez universities in Naga City competed in the games. (University of Nueva Caceres) who won two silver medals in the 100m Butterfly and 400m Freestyle categories Among the four (4) events mostly topped by the city respectively, and Angelo Jose R. Tondo (Ateneo include Gymnastics, wherein the city gathered four (4) de Naga University) who won one silver in golds as won respectively by Zyrus Edward Babasa (Abcede Elementary School), Maria Rafaela Payte (St. Joseph School), Jazmine Naya Agsao (St. Joseph School) and Samher Destiny Rivera (Naga City Montessori School); Pencak Silat, represented by Mark Rod Flordeliz (Tinago National High School) who won one (1) gold; Swimming, represented by Julius P. Vasquez (University of Nueva Caceres) who won THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF NAGA EXPRESSES THEIR SUPPORT TO NAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL I CHILDREN’S RONDALLA one (1) gold in the 200m Butterfly category; FOR QUALIFYING AS FINALIST IN THE NATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITIONS FOR YOUNG ARTISTS FOUNDATION (NAMCYA) NATIONAL FINALS COMPETITION THIS COMING NOVEMBER 20-25, 2018 AT CCP MAIN THEATER. and Taekwondo, represented by Don Benito
JULIUS P. VASQUEZ (UNIVERSITY OF NUEVA CACERES)
the 200m Backstroke category; one (1) in Table Tennis as won by Ashley Louise R. Allavado (Camarines Sur National High School) in the Singles Mini Cadet category; and one (1) in Taekwondo as won by Chrysler Kate P. Cleofe (Naga College Foundation) in the Kyorugi event, Cadet Female category.
A total of four (4) bronze medals are also won by the city in each of the same events still— one (1) in Gymnastics as won by Husto Dave Camalla (Naga Central School I); one (1) in Pencak Silat as won by Ma. Jhariss SI. Rañada (Tabuco Central School); one (1) in Swimming as won by Julius P. Vasquez (University of Nueva Caceres) in the 1500m Freestyle category; and one (1) in Taekwondo as won by Daniel Jay Castroverde (Naga College Foundation) in Kyorugi event, Cadet Male category.
Meanwhile, the Naga Central School (NCS) I Children’s Rondalla also qualified as finalist in the National Finals Competition of the National Music Competitions for Young Artists Foundation (NAMCYA) that will be held this coming November 20-25, 2018 at Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Main Theater.
OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 PHOTOS BY SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR & JOSE COLLERA 28 LIVELIHOOD, EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
AT NAGA SUMMIT ICT-BPO
LEADERS WELCOME TO OUR SEE VIBRANT, ROSY IN PHOTOS: PARTICIPANTS FROM VICE PRESIDENT LUZON, VISAYAS AND MINDANAO TO THE 3-DAY PROSPECT FOR THE LENI ROBREDO NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY ARRIVES THIS MORNING AT TRAINING-WORKSHOP AT THE By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO THE AVENUE PLAZA HOTEL JAMPACKED LA PIAZZA, AVENUE PLAZA INDUSTRY FOR THE 10TH NATIONAL ICT HOTEL THAT STARTED THIS MORNING, CO-SPONSORED BY THE CITY CONFEDERATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NAGA WITH THE NICP, PHILIPPINES (NICP) SUMMIT. DICT AND ICT@BICOL.
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION 138 IT PROFESSIONALS ACROSS THE NATION TECHNOLOGY-BUSINESS PARTICIPATED THE 1ST CYBERSECURITY TRAINING PROCESS OUTSOURCING (ICT- WORKSHOP DURING THE 10TH NICP NATIONAL ICT SUMMIT, HELD LAST BPO) sector here will become even NOVEMBER 22-24, 2018 AT THE AVENUE PLAZA HOTEL, NAGA CITY. THE THEmore vibrant and rosy. SUMMIT AND ITS OFFICIAL EVENTS ARE ORGANIZED BY THE NICP, DICT, ICT@ BICOL-METRO NAGA COUNCIL, AND THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF NAGA.
This was given emphasis by the leaders of the summit.nicp.org.ph / [email protected] industry who participated in the summit which was organized by the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP). destinations for ICT-related foreign and local investments, and a digital governance The event served as a facility to enhance educational innovators. experience and share learnings, programs, innovations and best practices, which can be brought back to the “Indeed, the NICP has been successful in linking cities and provinces to each participants’ respective communities to be able to help other and to the world. This summit is an excellent platform for the NICP to fortify create new jobs. its relationship with ICT Council members, partners, businesspeople, the academe, IT practitioners and other stakeholders,” he said. The 2-day national event that reeled off November 23-24, this year, was staged along with the city In a press briefing, the mayor felt delighted when Dr. Antonio Del Carmen, government of Naga and the Department of Information NICP president, said that this city has been regarded by many graduates of different and Communications Technology (DICT) as co-organizers. colleges and universities in the Bicol Region to be the crux where they can continue to pursue their careers. In his welcome message, Mayor John G. Bongat said that the event sums up the decade of the NICP’s thrust of Del Carmen underscored the richness and strength of this city and the Bicol promoting different cities and provinces both as digital PHOTOS BY JOSE COLLERA | REYNALDO BAYLON
OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 30 LIVELIHOOD, EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Region when it comes to creating ICT-BPO training for a focus area. Due to its broad talents due to the existence of some of the usage and vague legal precedent, a country’s best universities and colleges. “center of excellence” in one context may BY NAGA’S have completely different characteristics “I think they [colleges and universities from another. The focus area might be a 10TH NICP ICT SUMMIT | in Naga and Bicol] have about seven centers COMPETITIVENESS, technology e.g. Java, a business concept of excellence and they are producing 10,000 e.g. BPM, a skill e.g. negotiation or a broad PLENARY 1 | DEVELOPING to 12,000 graduates every year, which is a TRANSPARENCY, AND area of study e.g. women’s health. A ROBUST ICT ECOSYSTEM very good measure how ICT investments INVESTMENT- FOR COUNTRY SIDE can grow here. It is very assuring that all A center of excellence may also be DEVELOPMENT of these graduates need not move to any FRIENDLINESS, aimed at revitalizing stalled initiatives. other place,” says Del Carmen. The term may also refer to a network of THE CITY WOULD BE institutions collaborating with each other Wikipedia explained: A center of to pursue excellence in a particular area excellence is a team, a shared facility or ONE OF THE e.g. the Rochester Area Colleges Center for an entity that provides leadership, best Excellence in Math and Science. practices, research, support and/or BEST PLACES THAT ANY BPO CAN In an interview, E. Daniel A. De Leon, ICT@Bicol Metro Naga Council president LOCATE. and Summit chairman, said that apart from the talents, another factor that attracts ICT- related foreign and local investments is the
place’s investment-friendliness like that of ICT industry in its early days in Naga, of Naga. whose legacy has been continued and further bolstered by Mayor John Bongat De Leon said Naga is one of the under whose term Naga was chosen, most livable cities in the country and among others, as the country’s Most named by the Manila Times as one of the Competitive Component City for four 2017 Top Philippine Model Cities and one consecutive years,” De Leon said. of the most livable cities by the League of Cities. Bongat said that by “Naga’s competitiveness, transparency, and “Various awards have already investment-friendliness, the city would been conferred on Naga City since the be one of the best places that any BPO time of then Mayor Jesse Robredo, who can locate.” supported the advocacies and platforms
GROW. EXPAND. INNOVATE. THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF NAGA SUCCESSFULLY HOSTED THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST GATHERING OF THE ICT COMMUNITY, THE 10TH NICP NATIONAL ICT SUMMIT LAST NOVEMBER 22-24, 2018 AT AVENUE PLAZA HOTEL WITH THIS YEAR’S THEME: “A DECADE OF INCLUSIVE COUNTRYSIDE DEVELOPMENT: MANAGING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DRIVEN BY DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES” BROUGHT BY THE NATIONAL ICT CONFEDERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES (NICP) AND DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (DICT). PHOTOS BY JOSE COLLERA | REYNALDO BAYLON 31 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 32 PEACE AND ORDER PUBLIC SAFETY ARKET stall tenants and customers participated in the Fire and Earthquake Drill conducted at the Naga City People’s Mall (NCPM), October 17, 2018. NAGA CITY PEOPLE’S MALL The drill included incidence of fire, fogging, injured victims, and missing children— scenarios staged-up at the different areas inside and around the vicinity of NCPM. MConcerned agencies including the City Disaster Risk Reduction & HOLDS Management Office (CDRRMO), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO), Department of Health (DOH), Bicol Medical Center (BMC), Philippine National Police (PNP), Public Safety Office (PSO), and Naga City Hospital (NCH) participated and responded to FIRST the incidents. EARTHQUAKE Meanwhile, several areas across the NCPM served as evacuation areas of the tenants and customers. DRILL The Market Enterprise and Promotions Office (MEPO), headed by Ramon Florendo, together with the CDRRMO headed by Ernesto Elcamel, spearheaded FOR the conduct of the drill that was the first one to be held at NCPM. MARKET STALL Elcamel said that market places like NCPM are places that are highly at risk in times of unwanted disasters and emergencies especially that NCPM TENANTS, CUSTOMERS is currently housing more than 1,500 tenants. With the drill, they aim to ensure the safety of market vendors as By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO well as the continuity of business in cases of fire and earthquake accidents.
Florendo, the Market Supervisor, said that it has long been their plan in MEPO to conduct such drill to equip the stall holders and customers with proper response to avoid casualties, more so that the City Engineer’s Office (CEO) already reported weak spots in the NCPM building that are prone to collapse and can cause further accidents and damages to lives and properties at the NCPM under certain circumstances.
Meanwhile, BFP-Naga Fire Chief Inspector Jose Callos said that overall, they observed the proper response of market vendors and customers in evacuating the NCPM area, as well as the readiness of concerned agencies in responding to various incidents.
Elcamel and Florendo added that they are planning to repeat the conduct of the drill to improve further the communication and coordination between the concerned agencies and ensure the preparedness of tenants and customers.
PHOTOS BY SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR | JOSE COLLERA
33 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 PEACE AND ORDER AND PUBLIC SAFETY CLEANLINESS AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
NAGA ONLINE EMERGENCY RESPONSE APP TOPS PH DIGITAL CITIES GOV’T INTER-OPERABILITY AWARDS LGU-NAGA By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO ADDS NEW DUMP
LISTO SERBISYO APP TRUCKS TO BETTER CITY (ASAPP), the online emergency response COMCEN GARBAGE COLLECTION, WASTE MANAGEMENT mobile application of THEthe City Government of Naga, topped By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO all other cities in the Philippines in the Best in Government Inter-operability Empowerment (G2G) Award category of the Digital Cities Awards: Best Practices in eGovernance (eGov) for Local Government Units (LGUs) in the country. PHOTOS BY operability Empowerment (G2G) Award, Best in Digital Finance Empowerment (P2G) Award, Best in Data-Driven Governance (D2G) Award, and Best in SYLRANJELVIC Systems for Global Competitiveness (G2W) Award.
The Naga City’s ASApp topped the Best in Government Inter-operability Empowerment (G2G) Award category that VILLAFLOR recognizes the significant contribution of an LGU program in improving interconnectivity among different government offices, both local and national, in the delivery of public services.
The National ICT Confederation The ASApp, going beyond the of the Philippines (NICP), in support traditional practice of making telephone calls, allows the public to ask for of the Department of Information and FOR A CLEANER NAGA. Communications Technology (DICT) emergency help “one click away” via the THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF NAGA, THROUGH THE SOLID WASTE and Department of Interior and Local installed online emergency response application in their mobile phones. MANAGEMENT OFFICE, LED THE BLESSING CEREMONIES OF FIVE (5) Government (DILG), conducted the NEW DUMP TRUCKS AND ONE (1) MULTI-PURPOSE VAN THIS awarding ceremony last October 12, 2018, *meant for use ONLY in NAGA CITY MORNING DURING THE CITY HALL FLAG CEREMONY. THESE NEW UNITS, at the PICC Convention Hall. More so, ASApp provides significant help in improving the mobility of SUITABLE IN NARROW PATHS INACCESSIBLE BY LARGER DUMP TRUCKS concerned government agencies including WITHIN SUBDIVISIONS, AIM TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE CITY’S The Digital Cities PH eGov Awards WASTE COLLECTION. for LGUs aims to gather, recognize and the security, medical and fire protection encourage the initiatives of various LGUs THE ALISTO SERBISYO agencies, in responding to different in the country in utilizing Information disaster and emergency situations and Communications Technology (ICT) for APP (ASAPP), THE ONLINE with their direct linkage to the Central more efficient and effective delivery of its EMERGENCY RESPONSE MOBILE APPLICATION Communications Center (ComCen) of the TRENGTHENING the campaign on services to the public. OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF NAGA, TOPPED City Government of Naga through the garbage collection and proper waste ALL OTHER CITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES IN THE ASApp mobile application. disposal and management, the city The award is being divided into BEST IN GOVERNMENT INTER-OPERABILITY government of Naga purchased five (5) different categories which include Naga City went ahead of Muntinlupa EMPOWERMENT (G2G) AWARD CATEGORY OF and Parañaque cities who were recognized more new dump trucks in addition to the Best In Customer Empowerment (G2C) THE DIGITAL CITIES AWARDS: BEST PRACTICES 12 units of dump trucks being utilized Award, Best in Business Empowerment as second and third place respectively in IN EGOVERNANCE (EGOV) FOR LOCAL (G2B) Award, Best in Government Inter- the same category. already for garbage collection in the city. GOVERNMENT UNITS (LGUS) IN THE COUNTRY. After the flag raising ceremony, October 15, city officials graced the blessing ceremony of the new trucks— one (1) 10-cubic truck, three (3) 3-cubic mini dump trucks, Sand one (1) Multi-Purpose Vehicle (MVP). The mini dump trucks are intended for garbage collection along narrow roads and alleys that do not allow passage of big dump trucks particularly those within the city subdivisions. amending City Ordinance No. 96-049 MAYOR JOHN BONGAT RECEIVES NAGA CITY’S AWARD DURING THE DIGITAL CITIES AWARDS Engr. Joel Martin, head of the Solid Waste Management mandating all households, business and CEREMONY OF THE NICP. (PHOTO COURTESY OF MAYOR Office (SWMO), shared during the interview that they commercial establishments, and institutions to adopt waste segregation at JOHN BONGAT FB POST) are seeing the purchase of additional trucks as means for source and proper disposal of the same and providing penalties for violation more effective and efficient garbage collection in Naga thereof. City, in accordance to R.A. 9003, the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, that is strengthened still With the additional trucks, the SWMO is hopeful to achieve their goal of in the city through Ordinance No. 2001-056, an ordinance increasing efficiency in garbage collection from then 90% to 95%.
35 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 36 2.85 HECTARE SANITARY LANDFILL IN SAN ISIDRO, NAGA CITY
By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO among city hall offices, the Kita An Pangarugan 2018, which encourages waste management practice among the offices, through garbage segregation, to serve as an example also to the households in the 27 barangays of Naga. showed that majority of Nagueños are in the sanitary landfill, with the latter being Meanwhile, the 2.85 hectare sanitary expected to contain the city garbage for The operation of Material Recovery favor of the implementation of the plastic landfill in San Isidro, Naga City, has been a period of three (3) up to five (5) years Facilities (MRFs) in each barangay in Naga ban ordinance in the city— with two out of undergoing construction already and is only. City, which allows for the recycle of still being expected to be done by the first reusable materials such as plastic bottles three or 67% expressing their approval. quarter of the next year. Among other initiatives of the among others, is also one of the means for SWMO is the staging of a competition the city government to achieve the 50% Sangguniang In an interview, Mayor John Bongat Aside from the sanitary landfill, the waste diversion goal in Naga City. Panlungsod city government, thru the SWMO, City shared that the council are also taking (SP) of the City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) With the maximum of 90 tons or into consideration the implementation of and other concerned offices, has been 90,000 kilograms of garbage in Naga City Government working on the waste-to-energy facility, a everyday, the SWMO still believes that “qualified plastic ban” which looks into the of Naga burn technology, that is to be built next to segregation at source is a good practice kind of products or items in the market that to decrease the quantity of garbage being THEhas long been on discussion regarding the disposed at Balatas dumpsite and San may or may not qualify in the plastic ban implementation of plastic ban ordinance in Isidro sanitary landfill. which include fish and other produce in the Naga City, following the indorsement of the wet section of the market. same from Mayor John Bongat.
At present, some of the establishments In the 2018 Third Quarter Naga City Poverty in the city are already implementing plastic and Governance Public Opinion Poll conducted ban like the Naga City People’s Mall (NCPM). by the Ateneo Social Science Research Center of the Ateneo de Naga University, the survey The policy is being seen as one of the efforts being taken by the city government for the protection of the environment. PHOTOS BY SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR
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37 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 38 TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
Naga’s By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO eSkwela-BLW 2018 GALING program is POOK AWARDEE
PHOTO BY JOSE COLLERA
She told the assembly that six years after her husband’s death, “Naga continues to GALING POOK THE NAGA CITY DELEGATION HEADED BY MAYOR JOHN G. BONGAT (10TH FROM RIGHT) POSE FOR POSTERITY WITH VICE PRESIDENT LENI ROBREDO (9TH FROM RIGHT) DURING THE AWARDING RITES OF THE GALING POOK AWARDS HELD AT NOVOTEL MANILA, ARANETA flourish under Mayor John Bongat’s leadership, CENTER IN CUBAO, QUEZON CITY. ALSO IN PHOTO ARE CITY ADMINISTRATOR FLORENCIO T. MONGOSO JR. (4TH FROM LEFT), ALLEN L. REONDANGA, CEPPIO earning the city the honor of being consistently HEAD (RIGHTMOST); GERARDO P. BRIZUELA, EPS II, ALS; KGD. RENATO P. INDICO OF BRGY. PANICUASON, BOB ROSIN OF CITY MAYOR’S OFFICE; JASON B. NEOLA OF awarded as one of the most competitive cities CEPPIO; ERNANI B. SURON, ESSO CHIEF; DR. VITO C. BORJA, CITY HEALTH OFFICER (9TH FROM LEFT); MARIA CORAZON VERDEFLOR, EPS II ALS; HILDA B. DORERO, in the country.” “I wish to honor Mayor Bongat BALATAS BARANGAY LITERACY WORKER; LEA DOBLON AND LOURDES PANGANIBAN, CHO STAFF AND EXHIBIT PERSONNEL. JBN/VCB for steering Naga to even greater heights during the last eight years,” she said.
The eSkwela-BLW program is a comprehensive approach to promote education ANILA --- LGU Naga’s Barangay eSkwela-Barangay Literacy Worker (BLW) for out-of-school children, youth, and adults program was triumphantly adjudged one of the 10 outstanding governance (OSCYAs) in partnership with the Department of programs during the 25th Galing Pook Awards which was held last October Education and the Department of Information 11, this year. and Communications Technology.
During the awarding ceremony, Naga City was privileged to be accorded Ernani Suron, head of Education, with one more recognition when its entry on accessible and sustainable health Scholarship, and Sports Office, said the care program for PWDs was chosen as one of the 19 finalists from 152 entries that were submitted program, which offers ICT-enhanced Mby different local government units across the country. educational packages under the Alternative Learning System, operates thru the Barangay In her keynote address, Vice President Leni Robredo emphasized that “there is no shortage eSkwela centers which were established in the of bright ideas in our nation… but all the bright strategies in the world will not work without brave, city’s 27 barangays. audacious, and honest leaders… but all great leaders empower those around them to be great themselves.” Mayor Bongat, in his presentation
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OSCYAs to enroll and/or re-enroll in ALS or to Naga, along with 5 other cities PHOTOS BY formal schooling.” (Navotas, Cagayan de Oro, Iloilo, Tagum and Valenzuela) and four trend-setting Galing Pook finalist Comprehensive municipalities (Del Carmen in Siargao
PWD Rehabilitation Program with focus on Islands, Surigao del Norte; Bindoy, Negros SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR Community-Based Rehabilitation Approach Occidental; Loboc, Bohol, and San Nicolas, works as the city government’s facility for Ilocos Norte) rounded up the top 10 LGUs. implementing its sustainable and accessible health care agenda for persons with disability. The awardees, who have meet Galing Pook’s criteria for responsive, effective, In an interview, Dr. Vito C. Borja, city empowering, innovative and sustainable health officer II, said the program intends to governance as well as local government before the Galing Pook National Selection improve the quality of life of PWDs and their leadership, presented a new brand of Committee, said: “To supplement the efforts of families by allowing them to meet basic needs innovative programs on literacy and the Barangay eSkwela program, the Barangay and ensuring inclusion, participation and education, land occupancy, community Literacy Program was introduced to bring access to health and social services as well safety and security, environmental together dedicated literacy volunteers as education and livelihood programs. “It protection and conservation, cultural at the barangay level to undertake introduced home-based patient management heritage perpetuation, and healthcare. literacy mapping and organize and therapy services as its main innovation,” learning groups to encourage he says.
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SANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD last September 11, 2018 passed an ordinance that provides curfew hours for minors to “regulate their movement during nighttime.”
Approved by Mayor John G. Bongat on THESeptember 27, 2018, City Ordinance 2018-073 has set disciplinary hours for children to protect them from neglect, cruelty, exploitation, and other situations prejudicial or detrimental to their growth and development.
As defined, a minor is a person less than 18 years of age while a parent refers to both biological and adoptive mother or father who have actual custody of and are living together with the minor children.
Guardian means a person who, in a court order, is recognized as the
MAOGMANG LUGAR ADOPTS CURFEW HOURS By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO | FOR MINORS LGU NAGA’S BARANGAY ESKWELA-BARANGAY LITERACY WORKER (BLW) PROGRAM WAS TRIUMPHANTLY ADJUDGED ONE OF THE 10 OUTSTANDING GOVERNANCE PROGRAMS DURING THE 25TH GALING POOK AWARDS WHICH WAS HELD LAST OCTOBER 11, THIS YEAR.
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brought to nearest barangay hall/tanod outpost. His/her parent/guardian shall be summoned to fetch the minor after a counselling is conducted.
For second offense, the violator will again be brought to the barangay hall/tanod outpost. If the minor shows hostile attitude, verbalizes profane or vulgar words, the child shall be turned over to Naga City Children’s Home or Naga City Women’s Center.
Before the child’s release, the parent/guardian will be required to attend 2 consecutive counselling sessions to be conducted by the Barangay Council for the Protection of Children (BCPC). In case of non-compliance, a corresponding complaint will be prepared and filed at the Municipal Trial Court.
Parent/guardian of the minor who violated the ordinance for the second time, shall be required to render 36 hours of community service e.g. gardening, rabuz and other forms of community service or payment of P1,000 as fine or both depending upon the court’s discretion. guardian of the minor; a public or private agency with whom a For third and subsequent offenses, the violator shall minor has been entrusted by a court for custody; a person in be turned over to the barangay hall/tanod outpost except charge of the custody or who takes care of a minor, whether if the child shows hostile behavior, utter profane or vulgar relative or not; or a person at least 18 years of age who was words, he/she shall be turned over to the NCCH or NCWC authorized by a parent or guardian to accompany a minor for appropriate counselling and be subjected to rigorous in a public place or to have care and custody over a minor intervention program. individual. His parent/guardian shall be penalized with a fine of Authored by City Councilor Joselito SA Del Rosario P3,000 or imprisonment of not less than 10 days but not and City Youth Councilor Allysia Mariefranz P. Rodriguez, the more than 15 days or both, depending upon the discretion Naga City Curfew for Minors Ordinance also penalizes parent/ of the court. guardian whose child/ward was found to have violated any of the provisions of the ordinance. Each of the city’s 27 barangays shall maintain a separate logbook for curfew violators, and shall ensure Del Rosario said the ordinance serves as another the confidentiality of the information about the involved approach by the LGU to further strengthen its advocacy for minors. young individuals, and to spare and safeguard them from any adversity.
For first offense, the minor-violator, upon determination that he/she is not a child in conflict with the law (CICL), shall be
THE ORDINANCE SERVES AS ANOTHER APPROACH BY THE LGU TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN ITS ADVOCACY FOR YOUNG INDIVIDUALS, AND TO SPARE AND SAFEGUARD THEM FROM ANY ADVERSITY.
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TO BE INCLUDED IN HS CURRICULUM CITY GOV’T TO HOLD SERIES OF DISCUSSIONS TO DEVELOP ANTI-DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM
By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO
local government unit here is organizing IT WILL BOOST THE a series of consultation that EFFORTS BEING THEwill be attended by representatives of various UNDERTAKEN BY groups who pledged their commitment in the development of an anti-illegal drug abuse THE DEPED, THE program that will be included in the curriculum PHILIPPINE NATIONAL being offered to Junior and Senior High School.
POLICE AND THE City Councilor Joselito SA Del Rosario PHOTO BY PHILIPPINE DRUG said the stakeholders are from the sectors of the academe, youth, community, religious, ENFORCEMENT business, professionals, law enforcement The initiative is being pursued under city ordinance 2018-
REYNALDO BALYON AGENCY (PDEA) agencies and other public and private entities 060 that mandates the development and integration of a localized, who manifested their willingness to help values-based and holistic anti-illegal drug abuse curriculum for the TO HERD YOUNG the city government and the Department of high school level. INDIVIDUALS AWAY Education to come up with learning modules for the anti-illegal drug abuse program The measure seeks to address the growing concern about the FROM THE MENACE curriculum. proliferation of illegal drugs and their cumulative effects, especially OF SOCIETY on young individuals.
Del Rosario said that once the project is realized, the junior and high school students will obtain formal teachings about the ills of illegal drugs. “It will boost the efforts being undertaken by the DepEd, the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR | REYNALDO BAYLON REYNALDO BAYLON | VILLAFLOR SYLRANJELVIC Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to herd young individuals away from the menace of society,” he said. PHOTOS BY BY PHOTOS
45 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 FEATURES NAGA NUTRI-ATAMAN BENEFICIARES RECEIVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS FROM CITY GOV’T By ARMIE B. GUNAY, CEPPIO
the yearly activity, the City Government of First Lady Farah Bongat, City Councilor Cecilia de Asis, Naga held an early Christmas Party event and Barangay San Felipe Councilor Ghiel Rosales, together again for this year among the beneficiaries with the CPNO, celebrated the occasion with the children. of the Nutri-Ataman— a nutrition program of the city under the City Population and Different games were conducted and various gifts and Nutrition Office (CPNO) that aims to freebies including toys and food items were given to the THE CPNO STAFF minimize the malnutrition cases among beneficiaries who participated in the event that was held last children, particularly those belonging in the least economically- December 4, 2018, in one of the malls in the city. HELPING DISTRIBUTE GOODS ASresilient families. TO FAMILY-BENEFICIARIES. CITY COUNCILOR CECILIA ‘NENE’ DE ASIS CELEBRATING WITH THE BENEFICIARIES IN THEIR PARTY. PHOTOS BY
REYNALDO BALYON
FIRST LADY De Asis said that thru the event, it is their aim in the city This year, the program is currently serving 98 government to share goods with the community, particularly recipients from 15 barangays who are currently recorded FARAH BONGAT the marginalized sector, and let children enjoy the Christmas with severely-malnourished children— a comparatively celebration by way of such gatherings, especially that their lesser number than the past years. CELEBRATED WITH THE NUTRI-ATAMAN families may not be able to attend or afford to hold one. CHRISTMAS PARTY AT ROBINSONS THE BENEFICIARIES The Nutri-Ataman program of the city continues IN THEIR CHRISTMAS Teresita Del Castillo, the head of the CPNO, affirmed to reap awards for the Naga as it has been very active in PLACE-NAGA. that in the past years, they have noted improvement in the promoting health and wellness among the marginalized PARTY. nutrition status of the Nutri-Ataman beneficiaries and aims families through education, information dissemination to lessen the number of their enrollees in the program in the campaigns, feeding programs, counseling sessions and by coming years—an indicator of the effectiveness of the Nutri- other means. Ataman program in the community.
CHILDREN- BENEFICIARIES PARTICIPATING IN THE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES.
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BONGAT HAILS NAGA AS ONE OF COUNTRY’S MOST HONEST AWARDED LGUs TRIMOBILE By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO | DRIVER PRAISED By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO |
NOTHER trimobile driver was awarded with certificate of commendation by the city government of Naga last Monday (December 17) for his honesty in returning back to its rightful owner a bag containing cash, a mobile phone and important papers.
The commendation was presented to Mario Arejola Alano by Mayor John G. Bongat and several city councilors in a fitting rite held after the flag raising ceremony last Monday at the City Hall grounds.
PHOTO BY JOSE COLLERA Alano said he found the bag in the tricycle he was driving last December 11, this year, which was accidentally left by one of his Apassengers. ITH more than 40 regional and national awards that the city The honest driver, who is a resident of the neighboring Canaman town, said it was not the first time that he returned lost items. “There government of Naga were incidents that I found wallets, a laptop, and cellphones not only in my tricycle, say, on roads but all of them were properly turned over received this year, to their rightful owners,” he says. one could surmise that the LGU is one KAMONG MGA of the country’s most The inscription written in the certificate presented to the tricycle driver reads: “Not wanting to own the awarded local government entities today. EMPLEYADO
W SOURCE PHOTO | MAYOR JOHN G. BONGAT FACEBOOKPAGE property to himself, Mr. Alano took effort to return the bag – driving immediately back to the area where he This was the gist of Mayor John G. MAOORAG, ORAGON dropped the passenger-owner of the property finding her unaware still of the incident and was overjoyed to Bongat’s message last Monday after the flag find her bag returned back.” raising ceremony which was attended by his City Hall co-workers and guests. AN SATUYANG
“Mr. Alano’s honest act is a value worthy of commendation and emulation – making him as an example Bongat said that another thing that PAGIGING SARARO not only for his fellow tricycle drivers but also for all other Nagueños, and contributing thus, in making Naga should make the city government proud and feel jubilant about having more than TANGANING City a truly Maogmang Lugar,” the inscription also said. 40 awards is that each award represents the effort that city officials and employees had painstakingly undertook in pursuing various MAITOLOD AN services to the Nagueños which means the city government was able to serve not only MGA MARHAY a limited area of governance but across different field of public service. ASIN MAGAYON NA “We were awarded for creating and adopting programs on health and nutrition, PROGRAMA PARA SA education and literacy. For 4 consecutive years, from 2015 up to this year, we were KARAHAYAN hailed as the Most Competitive Component City, we were even conferred the livelihood KAN LAMBANG and employment haven award that made us to be recognized as one of the Top 13 Philippine Model Cities,” Bongat said. NAGUEÑO
The city government was also awarded during the 6th Regional Competitiveness Summit for being outstanding in economic dynamism and was acknowledged outstanding in Best The city mayor attributed all the gains and e-Gov inter-operability category during the recognitions achieved by the city government to Digital Cities Philippine Awards. the teamwork and partnership of the city officials, employees and the constituents. “Kamong The latest of these awards is the mga empleyado maoorag, oragon an satuyang Apolinario Mabini Award Local Government pagiging sararo tanganing maitolod an mga Unit of the Year which was presented to the marhay asin magayon na programa para sa city government last December 3, this year. karahayan kan lambang Nagueño,” he said.
49 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 50 JULIAN C. LAVADIA SALVADOR DEL CASTILLIO CITY COUNCILOR CITY COUNCILOR
VIDAL P. CASTILLO CITY COUNCILOR ANTONIO B. BELTRAN RAY AN CYDRICK G. RENTOY CITY COUNCILOR CITY COUNCILOR MARY KYLE FRANCINE B. TRIPULCA CITY COUNCILOR
ELMER S. BALDEMORO CITY COUNCILOR
JOSELITO SA. DEL ROSARIO CITY COUNCILOR
NELSON S. LEGACION CITY VICE MAYOR
CECILIA V. DE ASIS CITY COUNCILOR MILA SD. RAQUID-ARROYO CITY COUNCILOR
ESTEBAN GREGORIO R. ABONAL III CITY COUNCILOR JOSE C. RAÑOLA CITY COUNCILOR
12TH SANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD
PHOTO BY SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR
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By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO
defines well the brand of public service that Vice Mayor Nelson S. THATLegacion is known for even before he was still a private law practitioner.
Long before his stint as city legal officer – his first job in the city government – Legacion was with the Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panlegal or Saligan where he worked with
PHOTO BY Vice President Leni Robredo who by then was a Saligan volunteer lawyer like him.
Saligan is a legal resource non- RAMIL HERRERA JR. government organization doing developmental legal work with farmers, the urban poor, laborers, women, and local communities through the creative use of the NELSON S. law and legal resources. LEGACION It was during the time of the late DILG Secretary Jesse M. Robredo as city mayor then CITY VICE MAYOR when Legacion was appointed and worked as city government’s legal officer.
“Lawyering for our constituents, especially those in the “laylayan (fringes of 53 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 society)” gives me a great pride and joy,” he says.
As elected public official (city councilor, 2007-2013 and vice mayor, 2013-2019), Legacion authored the Naga City QUEEN program, the Naga City Tertiary Scholarship Ordinance, the Urban Federation Ordinance, the Solo Parent Ordinance and many other ordinances and resolutions.
It was him who introduced the ordinance that established the Empowerment and Advancement of Barangays on Local Legislation (ENABL²E) program, an approach that allows the elected officials in the barangays to learn the principles of transparency, accountability and people-participation with an end view of improving the delivery of basic social services, eliminate corruption, red tape and patronage politics, and, ultimately, eradicate poverty and uplift the Nagueño’s quality of life. INCLUDED IN Legacion, who penned the Naga City 30- Year Sustainable Urban Development Plan, was LEGACION’S also accorded with recognition for institutionalizing MULTI-PRONGED transparency and good governance by introducing EXECUTIVE AGENDA the Sangguniang Panlungsod Student Participation FOR 2019 AND BEYOND: Program, SP Naga Facebook Website, the SP Highlights that are being published regularly in Bicol • Keeping alive the legacy of transparency and good governance Mail newspaper, Vice Mayor Meets the Press, in every aspect of the city live streaming of SP regular sessions, government’s dealing and the Performance Tracking System. • Augment the number of public schools in the city and the LGU’s Iskolar kan Ciudad
• Construct a Waste-to-Energy project and implement the Urban Gardening Comprehensive Plan, of which one of the component projects is the establishment of special eco-friendly parks in the city’s 27 barangays
• Augment the number of hospitals and health centers equipped with state-of-the-art medical facilities • Implement the Naga City Drainage LAWYERING Network and construct more FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS, standard roads to help those in the agriculture, transport and tourism ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE industry
• Establish a regional museum that “LAYLAYAN will serve as repository of the Bicolanos’ culture, art, and tradition, FRINGES OF the establishment of Bicol River Recreation Center, and: SOCIETY ” • Implement the city’s comprehensive GIVES ME A GREAT 30-Year Sustainable Urban PRIDE AND JOY Development Plan. SYLRANJELVIC PHOTO BY
NELSON S. VILLAFLOR LEGACION CITY VICE MAYOR
55 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 JULY - SEPTEMBER 2018 56 I BEGAN TO LEARN THE VALUE AND NOBILITY OF PUBLIC SINCE MY GRADESERVICE SCHOOL YEARS WHEN MY FATHER, SILVERIO, WAS THE TOWN MAYOR OF DEL GALLEGO WHO WAS LATER ELECTED PROVINCIAL BOARD MEMBER, AND WHEN MY MOTHER, LUCY, SERVED AS MAYOR FOR SEVEN YEARS
By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO CECILIA V. OPULARLY hailed as Kasurog kan Familia (Family Defender), DE ASIS City Councilor Cecilia Veluz-De Asis’ trustworthiness as Naga CITY COUNCILOR
SP HIGHLIGHTS City Bantay Familia chairperson is one thing that cannot be discounted, in fact, it was her grit that drove Naga’s anti-domestic violence program to become one of the city’s best practices.
Organized in the city’s 27 barangays, the Naga City Bantay Familia, a non-government organization that works for the protection of Pdomestic violence victims or survivors, serves as watch group against any form of maltreatment and abuse in the family.
The Philippine Commission on Women awards Naga City as the country’s one of the few chosen Gender and Development Local Learning Hub, a testament of how Bantay Familia works for the welfare and betterment of the Nagueño families. RAMIL HERRERA JR. RAMIL
| Nene, as she is fondly called, keeps a portfolio issues and concerns in the community was also created of landmark ordinances she authored/sponsored through the resolution sponsored by De Asis. like the ones that penalizes domestic violence, BANTAY FAMILIA, ECPAT provides protective measures for battered wives and It was in 1998 when the lady councilor was husbands, creates the Naga City Council for Women, elected into public office. She finished her 3-year term
VILLAFLOR SYLRANJELVIC declares March 8-14 as Women’s Week, and directs in 2007 and was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2010 to
| each hospital in the city to designate its own Pink become the first woman topnotcher councilor in the Crisis Center for victims of rape. history of Naga’s Sangguniang Panlungsod.
JOSE COLLERA The Committee on Family and Women which “I began to learn the value and nobility of public was institutionalized in the city’s 27 barangays that service since my grade school years when my father,
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Silverio, was the town mayor of Del Gallego who was later elected provincial board member, and when my mother, Lucy, served as mayor for seven years,” she said.
Included in her legislative achievements are the ordinances on breastfeeding, foster care for abused children, the creation of the Naga City Multi-Sectoral STI, HIV and AIDS Council, the promotion of positive and non-violent forms of disciplinary actions against children, the prohibition of corporal and all forms of degrading and humiliating punishment to children and providing penalties, conferring upon the city’s Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) the limited right to security of tenure, increasing their honoraria, appropriating funds for the purpose, and many more.
DE ASIS’ LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FOR 2019 AND BEYOND INCLUDES:
• The enactment on March 26, 2019 of the ordinance that provides for a comprehensive anti-discrimination policy on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.
• Strengthening the teamwork, unity, and oneness in the city council so that the core values of good governance shall be given prominence.
• The development of appropriate measures, mechanisms, and systems that are needed in the implementation of programs and approaches introduced by the executive branch that aim to alleviate the life of the Nagueño families. PHOTOS BY REYNALDO BAYLON
59 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 60 SP HIGHLIGHTS ESTEBAN GREGORIO R. ABONAL III CITY COUNCILOR
NDEED, as soon as he got elected as city of all the ordinances and resolutions for councilor in 2013 and as Chair of the Ways senior citizens. These included, as earlier and Means Committee he pencil-pushed mentioned, the term limits for senior citizen to adjust the decade-old fees and charges city officials and the ID. These benefits were though set in Ord. 2003-123 but anchored also added: P5,000 tokens every Bataan Day on 1997 rates. This augmented the city commemoration for surviving WWII and revenues by nearly 15M the year after and Korean War veterans; awards of at most keeps growing year after year. He presided P500,000 to the annual Outstanding Barangay over the controversy on the staggered Association for Senior Citizen Affairs (BASCA); increase in the stall rentals (Ord. 2010-064) at City Government subsidy of P100 for every Ithe Naga People’s Mall. He likewise led the P100 annual dues paid by the BASCA member rationalization of the charges at the Naga City to subsidize BASCA activities; the centenarian Hospital and the St. Lourdes Infirmary, and grant of P100.000 for senior citizens who turn soon that of the Naga City Abattoir. 100 years old.
Today he focuses on the collection The City Government has already given of delinquent real estate taxes estimated at to eight one-hundred-year-olds P100,000 P100M or the auction sale of these properties. each as centenarian incentives in addition Likewise, he is working on the official to the P100,000 granted by the national the pupils and students from pre-school As Vice-Chair of the Committee government to college and the alternative learning on Appropriation, he meticulously sifts SENIOR CITIZEN OFFICIALS systems for the out-of-school youth and through the requests and proposals of Councilor Greg deservedly chairs COUNTERPARTS WHO TOOK THEIR adults. the various units for the annual local the Committee on Education, having been OATHS OF OFFICE BEFORE MAYOR JOHN BONGAT expenditure program. He bases his himself a teacher and for 26 years Principal of THIS MORNING DURING THE FLAG CEREMONY AT He authored the ordinances scrutiny on each unit’s five-year budget MAYOR JOHN BONGAT the Ateneo de Naga as well as President and establishing the Del Rosario High School performance history and its plans and REFERS TO HIS FORMER Superintendent of the regional association of CITY HALL GROUNDS. as well as the conversion of community projects for the forthcoming fiscal year. ENGLISH TEACHER AND Catholic Schools of Bicol and likewise Director college to the City College of Naga (CCN). He devotes just as much attention to the SCHOOL PRINCIPAL of the Catholic Educational Association of the THEY WILL SERVE AS COUNTERPARTS OF THE proposed budgets of the twenty-seven Philippines. He sits as member of the Naga City barangays and all other requests for AT THE ATENEO DE NAGA, ELECTED OFFICIALS AND SHALL PERFORM THEIR School Board that supports the Division financial assistance. COUNCILOR He polished the education code DUTIES FROM OCTOBER 1 31, 2017. of City Schools with a budget of P100M GREG introduced by VM Nelson Legacion. The for the honorarium of educare teachers, Likewise, Councilor Greg vice-chairs ABONAL, AS code provides for the comprehensive care for construction of school buildings and the Committee on Games and Amusements furniture and various structural repairs , and is a member of four other committees: faculty development, books and learning Peace and Order, Market Affairs, Laws and THE“SILENT materials, school programs, activities and Ordinances, and City Properties. sports and especially for the payment of , students’ school fees. Councilor Greg’s performance as a WORKER” city legislator has been outstanding with PROBABLY THE CITY on legislating two unpopular proposals. WITH THE He is a Trustee of the City College his submitted ordinances and resolutions OFFICIAL of Naga that used to be a neglected city and especially his active participation in LEAST PUBLICITY AND The first was to put term limits to the college squatting from one structure to the Sanggunian deliberations. NARY A POLITICAL senior citizen city officials in October. He had another but has now groundbroken for seen senior citizens officers from the barangay its forthcoming campus. The College His one failure which he sadly PROPAGANDA. associations cornering and repeating as senior has itself expanded from the two-year regrets is that his very first resolution in citizen city official for years swinging from midwifery certification to a full four- 2014 yet has not seen light in the city. The city mayor to vice mayor and back again or year bachelor’s degree. The College has resolution directed “all planners, organizers from city councilor year after year for nearly already added the TESDA certification and implementers of City Hall and City a decade. When push came to shove from programs for automotive mechanics Hall related offices and organizations the senior citizens officials, his comrades at the and slaughtering and have initiated the meetings, assemblies, events, activities, city council were buckling down but Councilor bachelor’s course for office administration programs and the like to announce only Greg stayed on even at the threat that he was to especially for city hall employees. the intended starting time and then indeed be voted out of the Team Naga line up. Today, for start meetings, assemblies, activities and the third year already, more new senior citizens The next city administration the like at the announced starting time.” are becoming city officials and department now looks forward to the eventual It further enjoined all barangays, peoples’ heads in October. establishment of the elementary school organizations and other institutions to in Yabo and additional high schools in adopt the same policy direction. The second of these was the introduction the San Isidro, Queborac-Abella, and of a polyvinyl senior citizen identification card for Calauag-San Felipe areas. Thjese are Today, hardly anything starts on Naga City senior citizen residents and voters to declaration as meant to address the growing school-age time. qualify them for the additional benefits exclusive population. Economic Enterprises to Naga City senior citizen residents and voters. of the Central Bus Station, the Naga City Naturally, non-residents and/or non-voters who Hospital, the St. Lourdes Infirmary, the Naga erstwhile went to the movies for free or were City Abattoir, and the City College of Naga so entitled to additional death benefits cried foul, that their commercial and social functions may but the ordinance held on. Otherwise, all the be appropriately delineated. benefits granted by law to senior citizens are still observed. Councilor Greg may have been scorched when, as concurrent head Office of As Chair of the Committee on Senior the Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA), he insisted Citizens, Councilor Greg authored the codification PHOTOS BY | JOSE COLLERA | SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR | REYNALDO BAYLON
61 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 SP HIGHLIGHTS JOSE HE WHO IS HEALTHY C. RAÑOLA CITY COUNCILOR IS EMPOWERED By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO
One of the committee’s mandated to be able to actively participate in the affairs of tasks is to put under regular bacteriological the city government,” he said. tests and physical and chemical analyses the drinking water being distributed by more than Rañola, who twice became topnotch 80 water refilling stations in the city, including city councilor in previous years, said that he that of the Metro Naga Water District. keeps on thinking about more novel projects to be able to see Nagueños with clean bill The measure is being implemented of health and effectively doing their roles as to determine if the water for drinking is participatory governance coworkers. contaminated with microorganisms that are present in human and animal wastes. Such Rañola, who named the president microorganisms make a person suffer from of Barangay Health Workers in the city’s 27 water-borne diseases such as typhoid fever, barangays as regular member of the health dysentery, diarrhea, cholera, hepatitis, worms board whose task is to regularly update the and polio. body on health problems in the community so that it can take appropriate and speedy actions Aside from being in the warpath against to act on the problem, also chairs the Naga City HIV and AIDS for which the city councilor has Drinking Water Quality Monitoring Committee, authored a number of ordinances, Rañola also which is mandated to oversee the operation of sponsored City Ordinance No. 2017-093 that water systems and quality of water produced seeks to construct along the Almeda Highway and distributed in the city. in CBD III a P4.6-M Naga City Therapy and Rehabilitation Center.
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makes City Councilor “Sonny” Rañola, a medical doctor who co-chairs the City Health Board with Mayor John Bongat, to be THATmore focused on his work. “Like my colleagues in the city council who see to it that their legislative undertakings will help to promote the welfare and well-being of the Nagueños, I also make it sure that my works are all leading to the achievement of our common goal of empowering the Nagueño.”
Rañola said that beyond the gains and triumphs that the city government has been earning are the people who are in good health working with city officials and employees in crafting plans and programs for the welfare of the people.
“They also energetically give us feedbacks that allow us to further improve our services. That’s why we always see to it that they are always in good physical and mental condition
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65 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 66 SP HIGHLIGHTS ELMER BALDEMORO CITY COUNCILOR
is clearly seen in this public servant as he discharges his legislative functions as city councilor THATwho is entrusted by Mayor John Bongat as the focal person for the affairs of the PWDs and children in the city.
But City Councilor Elmer Baldemoro assures that in Maogmang Lugar equal opportunities are
made accessible not only to children and persons with disability but to the members as well of other S. sectors who need assistance and services from the city government.
“Walang iwanan (no one should be left behind),” Baldemoro stressed as he described how his coworkers in the city government made the LGU’s various services accessible to the constituency, especially to those belonging to the society’s vulnerable sectors.
Baldemoro, whose public service began as barangay secretary until he was elected punong barangay of Concepcion Grande, saw the importance of granting retirement benefits to all barangay volunteer workers who reached the age of 60 or above, and have achieved a length of service of 10 years.
Based on ordinance 2016-001that he authored, the retirement pay will be received by the retirees in the form of financial assistance in the amount of P1,000 per month times the number of years they served their barangays. More than 100 former barangay workers have now benefitted from the grant.
As chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s committee on children, Baldemoro, thru ordinance 2014-068, institutionalized the Naga City Council for the Welfare and Protection of Children of which he shared the chairmanship with the city mayor.
The measure further boosted the city government’s capability to come up with mechanisms that will make its services more essential and meaningful as the Council is composed of stakeholders from different partner organizations that work for the welfare and well-being of TRUE children. BALDEMORO ALSO AUTHORED AND SPONSORED SIGNIFICANT ADHERENCE ORDINANCES FOR PWDS LIKE THE ONES THAT: TO INCLUSIVITY FOR CHILDREN AND PERSONS The ordinance also established the Children Affairs • Establishes the Naga City Office which is situated at the compound of the Naga City Comprehensive Sustainable WITH DISABILITY Civic Center. The CAO serves as secretariat for various Rehabilitation Program for activities intended for the children. Persons with Disabilities with PHOTOS BY SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR focus on the community- based rehabilitation Wanting to see the young individuals being cared approach (Ord. 2018-053) for and loved by their own families and communities, • Prescribes the Enhanced the youthful councilor launched the Most Child-Friendly PWD Identification Card Barangay Award “to further inspire those in the barangays, (e-PWD-ID) program (Ord. especially the village officials to pass ordinances and carry 2017-022) out projects and programs that aim to promote the rights • Establishes financial and privileges of the young individuals.” assistance to PWDs’ burial By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO expenses All the winning barangays, from first placer down to • Mandates accessibility to second and third placers, will be awarded with incentives in information by PWDs, and; the total amount of P3-M worth of projects. The projects • Declares the month of July to be implemented, according to Councilor Baldemoro, as PWD month. He also should be consistent with and further strengthen the sponsored ordinance that grants P500.00 across-the- advocacy for the children in the barangays. board increase to all the city’s barangay volunteer workers.
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how City Councilor THAT’S Miles Raquid- Arroyo wants to see the beneficiaries of the Kaantabay sa Kauswagan (Partners in Development) program.
As the city government’s social amelioration program designed primarily to empower squatters and the city’s informal settlers, Kaantabay sa Kauswagan addresses the sector’s two major problems: the absence of security of land tenure, and the lack of basic infrastructure and facilities in their communities.
The lady legislator chairs the Naga City Urban Development and Housing Board (NCUDHB) which addresses problems that may come in the implementation of the program. produce professionals and skilled workers who can work for their fellow Naguenos The board, according THE KIND OF A VALENTINES GIFT WE CAN SHARE FOR THE in the future as doctors, engineers, lawyers to Councilor Raquid-Arroyo, LESS PRIVILEGED FAMILIES and accountants. There has been felt a solves problems by means of IN THE CITY-- HELPING THEM shortage of doctors, for example, in city tripartite approach wherein HAVE THEIR OWN PLACE WHERE public hospital and infirmary that these all the 15 members of the THEY CAN BUILD THEIR scholars may fill up once they finished their studies. OWN HOMES. TODAY, Section 8 of the Ordinance said 51 URBAN POOR that in order to achieve the purpose of the measure, the grantees under the Full BENEFICIARIES Tertiary Education Scholarship Program RECEIVED THEIR (FTESP) and Full Scholarship Program for Continuing Professional Development (FSPCPD) shall render service to the RESPECTIVE LAND MILA SD. city government under arrangements PRODUCTIVE TITLES IN THE LAND TITLE RAQUID-ARROYO DISTRIBUTION OF THE favorable to both. CITY COUNCILOR CITY GOVERNMENT OF NAGA THRU NAGUEÑO THE HOUSING SETTLEMENTS AND The same section of the Ordinance DEVELOPMENT OFFICE (HSDO) discusses all the conditions set with regards IN to the grantees’ service requirement. HABITABLEFAMILIES COMMUNITIES By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO An author of more than 22 city ordinances, Councilor Miles is often invited in national gatherings of LGUs to speak about her sponsored and authored ordinances that have become best we were able to come up with thorough, formation seminars to prospective homelot practices. One of these ordinances is appropriate, and speedy actions on the beneficiaries who need to be oriented on Ordinance No. 2017-072 which establishes problems, thereby making the implementation the rules of building a productive and happy the process and procedure governing of our urban poor housing program effective community. the preparation and approval of the and prompt,” says the lawyer city councilor. annual budget and other appropriation “The NACPHIL’s task is a new innovation ordinances of the city government and of The approach, which is being that helps to inculcate in their minds that the the barangays. undertaken in collaboration with the National acquired homelots is a piece of good fortune Auxiliary Chaplaincy Philippines (NACPHIL) that must be treasured, not to be sold. As one The councilor said the ordinance board representing the government (LGU with Father Steve Gianan, was able to address community, the beneficiaries should live also seeks to ensure that the annual budget Naga), non-government organization the persistent problem of ‘reselling’ or on the spirit of bayanihan, supporting and and other appropriation ordinances of (Naga City Urban Poor Federation) the handing to third parties homelots awarded to helping each other,” says Councilor Miles. LGUs are responsive to the needs of their people’s organization (Naga City People’s original beneficiaries, a dilemma that occurs in respective constituents and are prepared Council) collectively participate in finding any government socialized housing projects. Also among the councilor’s legislative and approved through transparent, solutions to problems. achievements is Ordinance No. 2018-030, efficient, and participatory processes. The NACPHIL, which handles the a measure that establishes full scholarship “Because of our 3-way approach committee that screens and selects the program for tertiary education and continuing program beneficiaries, conducts values- professional development so that the city may PHOTOS BY JOSE COLLERA
71 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 72 SP HIGHLIGHTS former Palarong Pambansa table tennis champ-turned-city councilor whose portfolio of to-do things contains approaches that will allow Nagueños to be able to eat more healthy food and to produce it in a way that does not harm nature.
That’s City Councilor Jun Lavadia and the food agenda that he is pursuing in the hope that every Nagueño will achieve a healthy mind and body under his “One Nagueño, One Sport” program.
AThe ping-pong icon of the early 80s underscored that one of the main things that the city government should work on under its sports program is the strengthening JULIAN LAVADIA CITY COUNCILOR CARING FOR THE HANDS PHOTO BY
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C. the Nagueños, especially the young ones, for FAMILIES HEALTHY. them to become sportive. By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO “The efforts we did to come up with sports structure or organization is also important but the city government’s sports program can be more triumphant if we have undertakings that directly provide benefits to the Naguenos’ physical and mental development,” he says. PHOTOS BY Specifically, the city councilor wants to focus on things that will increase the
the Jesse M. Robredo Coliseum, after it won Lavadia, chairman of the Sangguniang SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR | JOSE COLLERA | REYNALDO BAYLON production of healthy food for the Nagueño the bid to play host to the country’s premier Panlungsod’s committee on agriculture, said to be able to make the city’s sports program national games. he will author an ordinance that will provide well-participated by young individuals who the Nagueño with access to enough food for are healthy in body and mind. “Thru this Aside from “healthy body-mind” health and active life, and to be able to meet approach the well-being of the Nagueño objective, Lavadia wants the Maogmang consumption needs from own production farmers shall also be taken care of,” he said. Lugar to become famous too in the world rather than patronizing the imported ones. of athletics aside from being recognized and It was during the term of the late Jesse awarded nationally and internationally for its The measure is consistent with M. Robredo as mayor when Lavadia floated best practices and governance principles. the city’s Roadmap to Responsible the idea for the city government to play host and Sustainable Agriculture that the to the 1997 Palarong Pambansa. His City Hall Lavadia said that his food agenda, Sangguniang Panlungsod enacted. coworkers found the proposal farfetched which will involve organic agriculture because the LGU does not have the required that makes the cost of agri inputs lesser, With regards to the production of agri facilities. Lavadia told them: “Precisely, it is is a big boost to realize his yearning for inputs from indigenous materials, Lavadia the reason why I am endorsing the proposal.” healthy, strong, and able Nagueños. The said that the City Agriculture Office is plan, Lavadia said, will further improve the equipped with vast technical knowledge on The city government then became city government’s services to the Nagueño the plan. He revealed that there is enough the recipient of multi-million-peso world- farmers to increase their income, especially supply of stuff in the locality that can be class sports equipment and facilities, which now with the implementation of the Rice processed as locally made fertilizers and include the Metro Naga Sports Complex and Tarrification Law. insect repellents.
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NAGUEÑO FAMILIES: JOSELITO SA. DEL ROSARIO BUILDERS OF DISASTER RESILIENT COMMUNITIES CITY COUNCILOR By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO |
DRIVER AKO, FIRST AIDER AKO! AS PART OF THE CITY ORDINANCE NO. 2018-025 REQUIRING ALL PUBLIC UTILITY VEHICLE DRIVERS TO UNDERGO BASIC LIFE SUPPORT AND FIRST AID TRAINING, THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF NAGA, ALONG WITH THE AGENCIES INVOLVED, CONDUCTED THE COMMUNITY-LEVEL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TRAINING PROGRAM: BASIC LIFE SUPPORT & BASIC FIRST AID TRAINING FOR PUBLIC UTILITY VEHICLE DRIVERS, AUGUST 27, AT PSO TRAINING HALL.
AMILY members that can work as first responders The event, as in previous Olympics, solicited participation from GONE during calamities, not as mere evacuees, have members and personnel of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines, Boy Scouts of become a challenge for every Nagueño when the Philippines, Barangay Tanods, and Barangay Health Workers in the city’s ARE THE the Sangguniang Panlungsod enacted Ordinance 27 barangays who were trained on BLS strategies. WHEN No. 2017-007 whose principal author is City DAYS Councilor Joselito SA Del Rosario. Drivers of public utility vehicles were also tapped to be allies of disaster CITY RESIDENTS OF risk reduction as mandated by City OrdinanceNo. 2018-025 that requires all VULNERABLE Gone are the days when city residents drivers of passenger jeeps, trimobile, padyak, and e-trike to undergo the of vulnerable barangays will just wait to be herded to “Driver as First Aider Training Program,” tooling up the city’s BLS Program Del BARANGAYS Fevacuation sites every time a disaster comes or is expected Rosario cited a study that says 55 percent of deaths caused by road mishaps WILL JUST WAIT TO BE to come, Del Rosario said as he underscored the need for the occur in the first few minutes after the accident. And up to 85 percent of HERDED TO EVACUATION communities to be resilient, vigilant and proactive, especially those deaths could be prevented if first aid was immediately applied. SITES EVERY TIME A during calamities. DISASTER COMES OR IS He also said that most of the victims of road accidents suffer cardiac EXPECTED TO COME, The measure will enable families to be disaster-ready, arrest. “When a person suffered cardiac arrest, the patient’s survival can be DEL ROSARIO SAID AS HE thus making the communities, the city as a whole, to cope obtained by way of cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from someone who is knowledgeable because CPR, especially if performed in the first few UNDERSCORED THE NEED with natural or man-induced calamities including other emergency situations thru the institutionalized community- minutes of cardiac arrest, can double or triple the patient’s chance to survive. FOR THE COMMUNITIES level disaster preparedness program wherein family TO BE RESILIENT, members, especially their heads, are enjoined to undergo Del Rosario said that by providing the drivers of padyak, jeepneys, BOY AND GIRL SCOUTS AND PADYAK AND VIGILANT AND e-trikes, trimobile units with trainings on BLS and first aid will capacitate IN PHOTOS: Basic Life Support (BLS) trainings. TRICYCLE DRIVERS COMPETE IN THE DIFFERENT BANDAGING PROACTIVE, ESPECIALLY them to render necessary assistance while medical personnel are on their AND PATIENTS’ TRANSFER TECHNIQUES IN THE CONDUCTED DURING CALAMITIES. Under the Naga City Community First Responders and way to respond. 2ND NAGA FIRST AID SKILLS OLYMPICS TODAY AT THE CITY HALL BLS Training program, the family members will be equipped GROUNDS. to perform the roles of first responders and members of camp management teams who are trained to protect IN LINE WITH THE the child-and-women-friendly evacuation centers where WOMEN WOMEN’S MONTH CELEBRATION, they can serve as first aiders, conduct cardio pulmonary THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF NAGA, FIRST THRU THE NAGA CITY COUNCIL resuscitation (CPR), facilitate family preparedness, and FOR WOMEN AND THE NAGA CITY handle emergency situations. AIDERS. COMMUNITY FIRST RESPONDERS PROGRAM MANAGEMENT The program has also encouraged participation OFFICE HEADED BY CITY from the women’s sector whose BLS skills have been COUNCILOR JOSELITO DEL showcased during the culminating activity of the 3rd ROSARIO, CONDUCTED THE LAY Naga City First Aid Skills Olympics which was held last RESPONDERS FULL COMPRESSION July 27, 2018. CPR AND BANDAGING RELAY PARTICIPATED BY THE WOMEN SECTOR FROM THE The mothers, along with other competing DIFFERENT BARANGAYS emergency response teams such as the beneficiaries OF NAGA CITY. of 4Ps, Sanggawadan, and the Mt. Isarog Kalinigan Warriors, also displayed their knowledge, skills, and capabilities in cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) full compression and other first aid and emergency responses.
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TOOLING UP NAG A’ S MAOGMANG LUGAR BRAND By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO |
may not be your kind of man in the august body as he always prefers to be low-key and simple CALAUAG-SANP35-M FELIPE but City Councilor Vidal P. Castillo CIRCUMFERENTIAL ROAD performs his jobs well that keeps JUST IN CASE THAT THE Naga sustain its well-guarded NEW FACILITY WILL NOT moniker as Maogmang Lugar. WORK TO RESOLVE THE HE FLOODING IN THE AREA, THIS It was City Councilor Castillo REPRESENTATION ALONG Residents of Barangay Calauag have started who urged the District Engineer VIDAL P. WITH MY COLLEAGUES IN THE witnessing drug personalities falling into police dragnet (DE) and the Assistant DE in the 2nd CASTILLO CITY GOVERNMENT WILL NOT long before they saw any barangay or city official taking Engineering District during the time CITY COUNCILOR GROW TIRED TO CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR OTHER WAYS part in President Duterte’s war on drugs. That is because of then Secretary Rogelio Singson of of the former punong barangay’s constant watch against the Department of Public Works and Highways, thru a resolution, to DRONE PHOTOS BY any activity that threatens to disrupt the peace and order reconsider the restoration of the infrastructure funds intended for LANCE XAVIER ALEGRE of his village. the city after the funds were realigned to other projects in the region.
More arrests ensued after he was elected That Castillo’s course of action, which elicited favorable city councilor in 2016 when his fight for drug-free response from the government agency, was repeated when he communities has gone citywide. Because of his advocacy requested it to finance and undertake the same project along for the maintenance of peace and order, more than 10 the main road of Barangay Concepcion Grande and Barangay Del criminals were sent to jail for rape cases where the victims Rosario. Presently, construction work is in progress along that area. were either nieces or neighbors of the suspects, if not their own daughters. Included in the list of the city councilor’s achievements were the conversion of Del Rosario-Cararayan-San Isidro-Carolina “That’s the reason why I did push for a bigger circumferential road into a national road, obtaining funds from the funding allocation by the city government to the Liga DPWH for the purpose, and the on-going construction of P35-M ng mga Barangay. Every barangay should spend well on Calauag-San Felipe circumferential road which is being funded by their respective peace and order programs to make them city government. truly working,” says Castillo. DRUG SURRENDEREES During his time as Liga president, each of the city’s 27 barangays was receiving P300,000 as Barangay THAT’S THE REASON Support Fund. When he was elected city councilor, WHY I DID PUSH FOR The city councilor was also credited for the resolution he Castillo worked to increase the share being apportioned A BIGGER FUNDING ALLOCATION authored that urged the National Irrigation Administration to by the city government to each barangay in the amount BY THE CITY GOVERNMENT TO THE LIGA NG MGA BARANGAY. EVERY BARANGAY SHOULD SPEND WELL ON THEIR RESPECTIVE PEACE take action on the defective irrigation control structure and flood of P1M in 2014, P3-M in 2015 and around P5-M in 2017. AND ORDER PROGRAMS TO MAKE THEM TRULY WORKING gate it constructed in the neighboring town of Canaman which brings floodwaters during every rainy season to the neighboring But Castillo’s kind of public service does not come barangays of Calauag and San Felipe in this city. like police stories alone as there were instances also that he was recognized for his involvement in things that Responding to Castillo’s request, NIA allotted P15-M for show his concern for the Nagueños and their livable the construction this year of modern flood gate and de-clogging city, specifically on the aspect of the city’s infrastructure of irrigation canal’s flooring right from the site of the proposed development. project up to the city boundary. One can expect that flooding in these two barangays will soon be minimized, if not totally The on-going work on the P237-M road widening eradicated. and construction of drainage along MT Villanueva Avenue (former Liboton St.) can be attributed to Castillo, “Just in case that the new facility will not work to resolve who chairs the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s Committee on the flooding in the area, this representation along with my Infrastructure. colleagues in the city government will not grow tired to continue to look for other ways,” Castillo said.
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ABILIDAD SA RAY AN CYDRICK G. RENTOY JOVEN NA EDAD CITY COUNCILOR ABILITY IN YOUTH JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO By CITY YOUTH OFFICIALS
the National Movement of Young Legislators-Camarines Sur, was conferred with the Gawad Kampeon sa Kabataang Filipino by the National Youth Commission in 2009.
He was also accorded with recognition by different youth organizations for two more landmark ordinances he crafted and authored: City Ordinance No. 2012- 062, the Sports Ordinance of Naga City, and the ordinance that promotes positive discipline and non-violent forms of disciplinary actions among children.
Rentoy, who helped in the conceptualization and establishment of the Naga City Children’s Home, is a graduate of a Strategic Management Course for Young Legislators at the Asian Institute of Management in 2014.
After he finished his Master in Public Administration at the Philippine Christian University, Rentoy, who is now serving his third and last term as city councilor, is a graduating student in the College of Law of the University of Nueva Caceres.
His eleven years in public office began in 2007 when he was elected president of the Sangguniang Kabataan Federation and occupied a seat at the Sangguniang Panlungsod as ex-officio member. He was elected city councilor in 2010 wherein he was able to author 22 ordinances and 99 resolutions. He co-authored the City Tertiary Scholarship Ordinance.
Currently, he heads the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Laws, Ordinances and Reorganization, and the Committee on Consumer Protection. He also performs as Executive Director of the Naga City Price Coordinating Council, and co-chairs the SP Committee on Youth and Sports Development, the Committee on Housing and Settlement, and the Committee on Children.
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clearly defines City Councilor Ray- An Cydrick G. Rentoy’s expression of trust in the youth sector. The youthful legislator’s manifestation of confidence THATand faith in the young generation has inspired him to author an ordinance that provides for a comprehensive code for the juvenile members of the society.
Ordinance No. 2012-035, otherwise known as the Naga City Youth Code, the first of its kind in the country, provides policies and programs that are directed towards the welfare and protection of the youth in the city.
For such notable undertaking, Rentoy, who is the president of
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TELCOS: GLOBE, PLDT, AND CONVERGE, AND ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE TOWARDS THE ACHIEVEMENT OF CASURECO II AND CITY OFFICES: General Services Department and City Engineer’s Office, come together this morning to set into motion STRONGER FISCAL FOOTHOLD the clearing of dangling wires along city roads in CEPPIO By JASON B. NEOLA, adherence with Mayor John Bongat’s directive to comply with the provisions of the Anti-Dangling Wire ESPITE the non-imposition of new Ordinance of Naga City. The Task Force was given business taxes since 2004, Naga sustains until second week of April to clear ‘eyesore’ wires to have a strong economy and continues and cables along Panganiban Drive. Target clearing
to hold its footing steadily as one of the DRONE PHOTOS BY schedule for other areas to be set in the next Task country’s billionaire cities. SALVADOR DEL LANCE XAVIER ALEGRE | CASTILLIO IAN MAR NEBRES LEE Force Meeting this third week of April. Thanks to City Councilor Salvador CITY COUNCILOR M. Del Castillo who authored City Ordinance 2004-123, otherwise known Das the Revenue Code of Naga City wherein the various revenue-raising ordinances from 1972 to 2003 were codified and revised, a measure that allows the city government to collect higher revenues from the business sector even without introducing new tax rates.
Del Castillo, who worked at the Department of Finance’s Bureau of Local Government Finance for 4 years since 2011 as deputy executive director and later,
THIS APPROACH PHOTOS BY schedule of fair market value of all real properties in the city IS THE REASON that made the city government achieve an increasing revenue | collection in real properties every year. WHY LGU NAGA | COLLERA JOSE CONTINUES TO “This [approach] is the reason why LGU Naga continues to achieve revenue collection in real properties that is much ACHIEVE REVENUE bigger than that of the provincial government of Camarines COLLECTION IN Sur considering that our total land area is only 88.47 square REAL PROPERTIES BAYLONREYNALDO | kilometers as against the province’s more than 5,000 square MALABSAY FALLS kilometers,” says Del Castillo. THAT IS MUCH PANICUASON, NAGA CITY, CAMARINES SUR BIGGER THAN THAT The big difference in collection between the two LGUs can be seen in their respective Special Education Fund to which OF THE PROVINCIAL Naga has an annual allocation of more than P80-M while GOVERNMENT OF SYLRANJELVIC VILLAFLOR Camarines Sur only yields a little over P25-M every year. CAMARINES SUR In basic tax, the city realizes more than P100-M every CONSIDERING year. 30% of it goes to the barangays while the 70% are spent THAT OUR TOTAL on the salary and wages of the city hall employees and workers, various programs of the LGU, construction of public buildings, LAND AREA IS ONLY roads, bridges, drainage systems and other expenditures as its officer in charge, said the increase in revenue collection every charged under the general fund. 88.47 SQUARE year is due to the expanding tax base of the business establishments as manifested in their annual gross income which is being used as basis Aside from fiscal management ordinances, Del Castillo KILOMETERS for computing their individual business taxes. who began his public life as city councilor in 2004 is also the AS AGAINST THE author of the ordinance that requires the installation of CCTV PROVINCE’S MORE Another landmark ordinance that the CPA-lawyer city councilor cameras inside and outside business establishments and in the has authored is Ordinance No. 2008-080, an ordinance approving city’s major thoroughfares, the ordinance that will preserve the THAN 5,000 SQUARE the schedule of fair market value of all real properties including other flora and fauna at Mt. Isarog Natural Park, the anti-dangling KILOMETERS structures and agricultural lands as basis of the general revision of real wire ordinance and many others. property assessment in the city in accordance with RA 7160 otherwise known as the local government code of 1991. “Like my hardworking colleagues in Sanggunian, I will see to it to continue to author and sponsor ordinances that The measure, which took effect in 2009, carries an updated would help to better the life of the Nagueños,” he said.
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THE CHECKS AMOUNTING TO P100,000.00 FOR EACH MUNICIPALITY OF MILAOR, MINALABAC, BULA, BUHI AND NABUA WERE PERSONALLY HUMILITY, DELIVERED BY VICE MAYOR NELSON LEGACION, COUNCILORS CECILIA VELUZ DE ASIS, RAY-AN CYDRICK GROMEO RENTOY, DODIT BELTRAN AND KYLIE TRIPULCA UPON THE REQUEST OF MAYOR JOHN BONGAT. SERVANT THE FIVE NEIGHBOUR MUNICIPALITIES WERE SEVERELY AFFECTED BY FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES BROUGHT BY HEAVY RAINS OF LEADERSHIP NCDRRMO BUDGET MEETING TROPICAL DEPRESSION “USMAN”. By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO
X-OFFICIO City Councilor Antonio B. Beltran’s guiding principle in public service visualizes well American author Jim Collins’ belief that “the TO MAKE QUALITY X-factor of great leadership is EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE, humility.” TO HELP EVERYONE TO EThe 3-termer Punong Barangay BECOME HEALTHY, AND of Bagumbayan Norte who was elected TO THE president of the Liga ng mga Barangay in ENSURE SAFETY August 2018 said that humility and servant OF OUR CONSTITUENTS, leadership can make a government worker THAT’S THE FOCUS OF MY open to continuous growth and learning. LEGISLATIVE AGENDA
“Humility makes a servant-leader to be more receptive, relatable and approachable. In turn, it creates a more humanistic work environment where the constituents will feel
more comfortable being open, supportive, THE NEWLY-ELECTED ANTONIO The 48-year-old community leader was hailed by his kabarangays for and participative,” he says. B. BELTRAN OFFICERS OF THE LIGA CITY COUNCILOR spearheading the effort that allowed them to acquire a parcel of lot that has NG MGA BARANGAY - NAGA CITY CHAPTER, HEADED BY HON. become now the permanent location of the village’s barangay hall. Beltran Beltran said that instead of seeing ANTONIO B. BELTRAN OF BARANGAY said that it was the former city mayor and late DILG secretary Jesse Robredo their positions in the government as power BAGUMBAYAN NORTE, TOOK AN OATH BEFORE MAYOR JOHN BONGAT who helped them to procure the property. or a way to control people and outcomes, DURING THE CITY HALL’S FLAG CEREMONY. servant leaders views their positions as The Liga president along with his fellow punong barangays takes as an opportunity to serve and grow their priority the drafting and implementation of various plans and projects that constituents and organizations. would help to strengthen their respective programs on education, health, and peace and order.
“To make quality education accessible, to help everyone to become healthy, and to ensure the safety of our constituents, that’s the focus of my legislative agenda,” Beltran said.
AMONG BELTRAN’S PLANS AS LIGA PRESIDENT: PROMISE FULFILLED: AFTER SOME • Introduce approaches that will continuously forge 2 HOURS BIKE LAST SATURDAY MORNING, unity among the city’s 27 barangays THE GROUP DROPPED BY ISLAS QUEBORAC AND SANTIAGO WHOSE RESIDENTS PLEADED • Capacitate the barangays to become truly FOR JETMATIC REPLACEMENTS AND NEW empowering institutions INSTALLATIONS. TOGETHER WITH MAYOR • Promote the welfare of the constituents through JOHN BONGAT, THEY BROUGHT THEIR effective and morally enlightened governance. NEEDS AND ENSURED THEIR IMMEDIATE INSTALLATIONS. PUNONG BARANGAY DODIT • Help build communities of self-governance and BELTRAN AND KAGAWAD LOLIT NANTES, management through a unifying process that AMONG OTHERS ASSISTED. inspires and fosters relationships, sharing, openness, and responsive participation.
PRESIDENT - HON. ANTONIO B. BELTRAN VICE PRESIDENT - HON. MA. CORAZON M. PEÑAFLOR OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 AUDITOR - HON. ALFONSO R. RODRIGUEZ OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2018 87 BOARD OF DIRECTORS - HON. RODRIGO AGRAVANTE JR., HON. MARCEL R. 88 BAGADIONG, HON. ANTONIO T. GALIDO, HON. JULIUS CEZAR B. SANCHEZ, HON. DOMINGO R. SERRADO. SP HIGHLIGHTS
MAKE A DIFFERENCE! YOUTH REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE 27 BARANGAYS PARTICIPATED IN THE ACADEMIC DAY AT JMR MUSEUM AUDITORIUM IN CELEBRATION OF LINGGO NG KABATAAN. SEIZE THE DAY TO SERVE!By JASON B. NEOLA, CEPPIO
COWORKER OF HARDWORKING AND INTELLIGENT LAWMAKERS WHOSE COMMON ASPIRATIONS ARE FOR THE BETTERMENT AND WELFARE OF THE NAGUEÑO.
MARY KYLE FRANCINE B. TRIPULCA CITY COUNCILOR IN PHOTO: THE NAGA CITY SK FEDERATION WITH THE CITY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND THE NEWLY- ELECTED SK FEDERATION PRESIDENT, MS. MARY KYLE FRANCINE B. TRIPULCA FROM BARANGAY SAN FELIPE, NAGA CITY.
full of spirit and and intelligent lawmakers whose common aspirations are for the orientation and gender equality and expression. The measure dynamism. That’s how betterment and welfare of the Nagueño.” was introduced by City Councilor De Asis. Mary Kyle Francine B. Tripulca conveys herself City Councilor Tripulca co-sponsored with City Councilor Kylie worked actively too with Vice Mayor Nelson to everyone she worked Arroyo the ordinance that promulgates the gender and Legacion when the ordinance that extends honorarium to SK with being the city’s most development code of the city, mandating the implementation in kagawads, treasurers, and secretaries was penned, deliberated prominent youth leader the city of a comprehensive and sustainable gender development upon, and presented to the city council for enactment. today. program. As a barangay official, the San Felipe SK president has “Kylie (as she is dearly called),” is an ex-officio member The measure, which was introduced by City Councilor De Asis, collaborated also with Barangay Kagawad Giel Rosales in SOof the 12th Sangguniang Panlungsod where she performs her also created the implementing mechanisms that help to promote drafting the ordinance that empowers the village’s youth legislative mandate satisfactorily in collaboration with the women’s empowerment, gender equality, women’s human rights, organizations by providing a system of accreditation and regular members of the body. She was sworn into office as and gender-responsive development. recognition, appropriating funds for the purpose. federation president of the Sangguniang Kabataan in the city on June 30, 2018. She also co-sponsored with Councilor Del Rosario the Kylie knows that she would be facing lots of to-do ordinance that further enhances protection to the lesbians, gay, things ahead not only as youth leader but as one of our good The 21-year-old legislator from Barangay San Felipe bisexuals, transgenders, and queers (LGBTQ) by providing for a government leaders someday. “That’s one thing I should make says that she feels proud to be a “coworker of hardworking comprehensive anti-discrimination policy on the basis of sexual myself ready,” she says.
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