Mayor Hits Predecessor, Dads; Crows his Feats

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

AGUILAR, Pangasinan – The Mayor in this rustic landlocked town boasted his accomplishment in his almost three years’ stints compared to the nine years’ term of his predecessor who had done little to the people here.

“E compare ninyo iyan nine years nila sa three ko. Botante na ang magsasalita basta sabihin lang kung ano ang nagawa ko sa Aguilar naibibibay ko sa Aguilar kung ano ang nagawa ko sa Aguilar ng three years at saka nine years sa kanila,” a passionate Mayor Roldan “Boyet” Sagles told Northern Watch Newspaper.

Aguilar, Pangasinan Mayor Roldan "Boyet" Sagles

Sagles, a long reigning Vice Mayor here, replaced exiting Mayor Eduardo Ballesteros after he beat Beth Ballesteros - the wife of former Mayor Ballesteros - in the 2019 election.

The Mayor lamented that the mostly opposition and Ballesteros’ friendly members of the legislature (Sangguniang Bayan) would not give him a resolution to avail another P50 million grant from the national government for the construction of the second regional evacuation center’s edifice.

“Ayaw mo iyan. Ayaw nila akong umangat. Ayaw nila akong makapag project na ganyan. May kilala ako sa Pagcor”.

Sagles said if his wife Vil wins the May 9 mayoralty election versus Councilor Kristal Ballesteros Soriano, their friend in the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) would continue to intercede for the multi-million pesos intended to the people here.

In the almost three years stint of Sagles, a dentist, he either procured or created the following: New dump truck, new firetruck, new ambulance, new municipal warehouse, solar street lights, P30 million evacuation center in Barangay Buer, newly designed plaza, more farm to market roads, Corona Virus Disease-19 building, or distribution late this year of 16 Mitsubishi utility vans to each of the sixteen barangays.

Before his term ends at noon of June 30 this year, Sagles cited the following projects in the pipeline he prepares to implement in the first half of this year: Solar lights in the stretches of the national highway that cover various villages here, the P5 million oval at Mapita Economic Park, another police car, and another fire truck to be funded by the coffer of the local government unit.

He looks on the renovation if not construction of a new public market after Save More, a supermarket owned by SM Retail, signified to him to put shop here.

He deplored the actuation of some real property owners here on spiking excessively their lot intended to be a location of the American franchise’s McDonald fast food company.

“May McDo ako dito ang lupa na lang ang wala. P8, 000 per square meter (psm). Saan ka kukuha ng P8,000 psm alangan naman kukunin ng McDo iyan. Mahal iyan”.

He said McDonald will backtrack if the seller inflated the price of the land.

“Ayaw ni McDo mahal parang city na. Bibilhin mo ng P3,000 psm bebenta mo ng P5,000 tubo ka na ng kaunti”

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