TO KEEP TOWN DRUG-FREE PERMANENTLY

LAOAC — Realizing that after the town has been declared drug-free, the town’s mayor wants several ordinances passed to cope with the bigger problem of how to keep it that way permanently.

Mayor Silverio Alarcio said he has recommended to the Sangguniang Bayan to pass several ordinances to safeguard the possible return and proliferation of drug trade in the town.

To keep the town drug-free community, Alarcio has recommended ordinances 1) To authorize and fund random drug testing in the town, 2) To require barangays to monitor and report activities of transients in the town, 3) To allow for the imposition of a selective curfew by a community for justifiable reasons.

He said these measures are needed to keep the town drug-free with the involvement and participation of the town’s residents.

“We need to make our communities vigilant and aware of the need to protect their families,” Alarcio said,

Meanwhile, Alarcio, also current president of League of Mayor’s of Pangasinan (LMP), said after the drug clearing programs, the league in partnership with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) is now focused on how to further promote and strengthen good governance among the province’s local government units to meet the minimum standard to earn the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG).

In 2017, there were 28 LGU’s in Pangasinan that earned the SGLG awards and hopes to increase the number this year.

The LMP, he said, plans to establish an office in Lingayen where the mayors can meet regularly.

“We have quarterly meetings for the general assembly, for every district and for the executive committee,” Alarcio said. (Nora Dominguez)

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