Mayor Al, 3 others to USA, Belen is acting mayor
MAYOR Alipio Fernandez Jr. and three other senior officials of the Dagupan City government left for the United States Friday to campaign for and invite overseas Dagupeños to come home in December for the city fiesta.
Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez is now acting mayor and Councilor Michael Fernandez, who ranked second in the election, is acting vice mayor until the delegation’s return on October 31.
The delegation is composed of the mayor’s son, City Administrator Alvin Fernandez, and Councilors Farah Decano and Jose Netu Tamayo, the 2007 Dagupan City Fiesta hermano mayor.
Decano, a lawyer, is Dagupan’s No. 1 councilor.
Designated as acting city administrator in concurrent capacity from October 12 to 23 is City Legal Officer George Mejia.
Mejia said Mayor Fernandez and his group will promote the program ‘Pawil Dagupan’ to the different associations of overseas Dagupenos in the West Coast and in Chicago area.
‘Pawil Dagupan’ is one of the highlights of the Dagupan Fiesta from December 1 to 30, which is marked by the homecoming of overseas Dagupenos to enable them to hold reunions with their relatives, friends and city mates.
While in the U.S., Fernandez will also sign the renewed sisterhood agreement between Dagupan and Milpitas City in California, whose mayor is Jose Esteves, a native of Dagupan.
The son of a lawyer from Dagupan, Pastor Estevez, the Milpitas City mayor studied in high school at the former Dagupan Colleges, now University of Pangasinan, and earned his degree in engineering at the University of the Philippines.
Councilor Tamayo, chair of the city council’s committee on tourism, said the signing of the agreement renewing the sisterhood ties will be done since the period for the agreement between the two cities signed by Estevez and then Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim is already about to lapse.
While the previous agreement centered on student and cultural exchanges, the new agreement will focus on bringing American investments into Dagupan, Tamayo said.—LM
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