BINMALEY—The town of Binmaley expects to attain first class status in 2011 based on the town’s improving economic indicators and increase in tax revenue collections.

Binmaley is currently a second class town, having graduated from third class in 2004 when Mayor Simplicio Rosario took over the reins of the municipal government.

Rosario said taxpayers have been voluntarily paying more in taxes under his leadership after seeing the corresponding improvements in the town.

“We told our people that the taxes they are paying to the municipality will go back to them in bigger amounts, in terms of basic services rendered by the municipal government,” he said.

The mayor also said given Binmaley’s topography, aquaculture will remain the foremost industry and they aim to protect it by enforcing a moratorium on fish pen operations to allow rivers to rest for a while and for the fish to regenerate.

Rosario is the only municipal executive in Pangasinan so far who has succeeded in containing activities of fish pens operators that mushroomed in the town’s rivers.

Rosario is now seeking the return of the town’s fish market, which was transferred to adjacent Dagupan in the early 1990s.

The municipal government was earning up to P10,000 a day from the fish market before it was moved.

He said he has talked to the old fish concessionaires who left the town, some of whom are his relatives, and all signified their intention to return to Binmaley when the fish market is ready.

Toward this end, the municipal government is intensifying efforts to clean the rivers to make it easier for motorized bancas to reach the fish market from different fish-producing villages.

“Our poblacion is still our biggest growth center. But growth nodes are being developed in different barangays, especially along the highway where investors may set up their businesses,” he said.—LM

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