By Mortz C. Ortigoza
BAGUIO CITY – A municipal engineer of the local
government unit (LGU) of Mlang, Cotabato Province was elected as president of
the prestigious City and Municipal Engineers Association of the Philippines
(CMEAP).
Armando “Mandy” Jaromay told this newspaper that members
of the national board of the CMEAP he headed will serve from January 2020 to
December 2021.
The election was held recently during the association’s
12th National Convention at Newtown Plaza Hotel in Leonard Wood Road
here.
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CHANGE OF GUARD. Incoming City and Municipal Engineers
Association of the Philippines (CMEAP) President Mandy Jaromay (left photo) and
outgoing CMEAP President Jane Rosario. The latter is the City Engineer of Dagupan
City while the former is the Municipal Engineer of M’lang, Cotabato Province.
Rosario, the City Engineer of Dagupan City, will be retiring on November 11 this year according to Jaromay.
He will update this newspaper about the programs he and his
national board will undertake before they assumed office in January next year.
“I will be Manila
next week with the board,” he told this writer in a telephone interview.
As aggrupation of city and municipal engineers in the
country, members share unique experiences, good practices, success factors as
well as failures, and other important concern that affect them.
In connection with the government’s Continuing
Professional Education (CPD), CMEAP’s invite experts to discuss with them new
innovation, strategies, and development trends that are vital to the
association. They need also to be updated with recent national policies
affecting their roles in infrastructures.
In the last month convention here, CMEAP theme was Local
Government Engineer Turning the Challenges of Climate Change into Opportunity
for Growth.
Jaromay took his secondary education at Notre Dame of
Mlang in 1979, his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at Notre Dame
University, Cotabato City in 1986, and completed all academic units of his
Master in Public Administration at Notre Dame of Marbel University, Koronadal
City in school year 1996-1997.
He hurdled the board examination for civil engineer in
May 1986.
As beneficiary of the Local Government Code of 1991, he
became the first municipal engineer of M’lang in 1995.
“As municipal engineer
we are the first in North Cotabato to construct school buildings under the
Third Elementary Education Program (TEEP) funded by the World Bank. Likewise,
we are the first in North Cotabato to implement the DAR-ADB-ARCP Sub-projects
which is the construction of the main access road at Nueva Vida-Luz Village
Road and potable water system at Luz Village in 2000,” he stressed.
His bio-data showed he attended training, conferences,
and conventions in the country and abroad sponsored for instances by the World
Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and Asian Development Bank.
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