By Mortz C. Ortigoza
AGUILAR, Pangasinan – A supporter vehemently defended the mayor of this town against some members of the Sangguniang Bayan (municipal legislature) who allegedly fed false information to broadcasters in Dagupan City to undermine him.
Professor Arnel Montemayor exhorted the voters in this town not to vote in the coming election these opposition members of the SB because of their malicious reporting to the media.
“May mga nakaupong Konsehales sa Aguilar naghahanap ng radio announcers uupahan para lang siraan ang masipag na Mayor ng bayan. Mga kababayan sa Aguilar, huwag na ninyong iboto ang mga ito. Malinaw, ito na mapanirang puri. Saan kukuha ng pera na gagamitin sa paninira? Lahat ng naipangako ni Mayor Boyet Sagles sa bayan, tinupad niya, one word is enough for a true public servant. You will get the dose of your own medicine ba Konsehal at sa iyo Boss?” he said.
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ACTION MAN. Mayor Roldan “Boyet” Sagles of Aguilar town is seen distributing aid to distress constituents while his supportive wife Vil Sagles (second from left), a former village chief, assists the mayor in his everyday’s functions. Mayor Sagles is a registered dentist.
Montemayor cited that these lawmakers are facing criminal charges at the Ombudsman.
One of the issues raised by them was Mayor Roldan Sagles did not function in his office as mandated by law.
Sagles told his newspaper that he was doing his duties like signing documents despite going to the hospital for his dialysis.
He cited the Local Government Code that says “When the mayor is temporarily incapacitated to perform his duties for physical or legal reasons such as, but not limited to, leave of absence, travel abroad, and suspension from office, the vice-mayor, or the highest ranking sangguniang barangay member shall automatically exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions of the local chief executive concerned, except the power to appoint, suspend, or dismiss employees which can only be exercised if the period of temporary incapacity exceeds thirty working days”.
He said he is not incapacitated to allow the vice mayor to substitute him.
Even if he is in his house, he still do what the laws expect him to function.
Sagles did not even travel and leave his town for three consecutive days.
The LGC says that when the incumbent local chief executive is traveling within the country but outside his territorial jurisdiction for a period not exceeding three consecutive days, he may designate in writing the officer-in-charge of the office.
In the almost three years of Sagles’ mayorship stint, this once lethargic town saw improvement like procurement of new dump truck, new firetruck, new ambulance, new municipal warehouse, and solar street lights, construction of the P30 million evacuation center in Barangay Buer, newly designed plaza, more farm to market roads, Corona Virus Disease-19 building, and distribution late this year of 16 Isuzu utility vans to each of the 16 barangays.
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