MBTF: Dagupan is winning despite 7 obstructionists
STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS
MAYOR Belen Fernandez reported to Dagupan residents that the city is already in much better position today than what it was when she began her new term in 2022 with major developments and implementation of new programs in spite of endless attempts of seven opposition councilors deliberately obstructing and blocking plans for the city’s progress
In her State of the City Address at CSI Stadia, during a special session of the City’s Manlincor ya Kalangweran headed by Young City Vice Mayor Justin Yohann Daroy, Fernandez underscored her administration’s rallying call: Unaen su Baley (The City First).
She said her administration reversed the slide and founded a stronger economy way much better than what it was in in 2022 when she reassumed the mayoral post.
Watched by some 5,000 co-workers and supporters, Fernandez said despite the social and political upheavals that threatened to break her, “we emerged strong because our resolve is stronger than our foes have imagined… because there are more Dagupenos opting to unite and join her promote her plans and aspirations for Dagupan.”
“ Inuna natin ang bayan. Pero ang iba, inuna ang humadlang,” Fernandez intoned in an obvious dig of the seven majority councilors who were conspicuously absent at the gathering.
Among the her administration’s reported accomplishments:
- Halfway through the current fiscal year 2023, the city already reached collected more than P1.27 billion in business taxes and licenses.
- Of the city’s 5,000 scholars, 672 already graduated, 11 were board passers and a number were topnotchers, while 74 others are reviewing for their licensure examinations.
3.. Barangay nurses and barangay health workers are regularly doing home visits in barangays far away from existing health centers. More than 35,000 Dagupoenos have availed of free laboratory and diagnostic services.
- Strict implementation of ‘No Segregation, No Collection’ policy, bosted by ‘Goodbye Basura’ program to support exploratory agreement with Holcim Philippines for the processing of the city’s plastic wastes.
- The Dagupan Police under P/Lt. Colonel Brendon Palisoc, was chosen ‘Top Performing Police Station in Region’, a recognition of Dagupan’s excellent peace and order and public safety.
- The flood mitigation projects in the city continue while construction of roads in step with construction of school buildings, health care facilities while a mass housing program with the help of the national government is on the drawing board.
- Fish farmers received 50 bancas and 80 oyster rafts while 186 farmers received fertilizers and seeds.
- The Edades and Bernal Museum will soon rise along the Jose de Venecia Expressway in Barangay Pantal, a pet project of 4th District Rep. Gina de Venecia.
- Dagupan was named one of nine Ivy League Cities in the Philippines, the 54th in Southeast Asia and 640th among the top 1,000 cities in the 2024 Global Cities Index by Oxford Economics.
Fernandez said more programs and projects like the DOH’s P150 million Mother and Child Hospital could have been implemented but these were blocked by the seven opposition councilors. (Leonardo Micua)
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