By Mortz C. Ortigoza
DAGUPAN CITY – A day after assumption into office, the tireless mayor of this coastal city has been seen combing government offices and making ocular inspections at the public market by meeting concerned persons there.
Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, a former six years’ chief
executive here, was seen on Friday visiting offices of the various department
heads and lower level staff.
In tow with her were her transition team like the new City Administrator Alex Lomboy, Lawyers Aurora Valle and Catleya de Limbos- Guzman, the new City Information Office Chief Eva Visperas, and other officials.
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The hands - on Chief Executive and party first inspected
those offices that were transferred to the Dagupan City Museum like the
One-Stop Business Center. Fernandez visited too the finance department located
at the City Hall Complex to check its state after her rival then Mayor Brian
Lim governed the city for three years.
Fernandez beat Lim in an acrimonious election by a margin of 14, 457 votes among the 120, 541 voters who casted their ballots in the May 9 electoral derby.
"We should know
the finances of the city upang ang serbisyo sa tao ay hindi mahinto,” she
justified why the office was the first to be examined.
The fast pacing Fernandez, who worked even in the wee hours
during her previous mayoral stints, visited the offices of the public order and
safety, city information, city planning and development, city social welfare and
development, population control, E-Library, and others.
"Inikot niya halos lahat ng offices ng Dagupan LGU, lalo na iyuong nasa city hall complex, sa poolside, at engineering," City Information Chief Visperas told this newspaper.
Even during the weekend of Saturday (July 2), Mayor
Fernandez was seen roving the public market looking at the prices and state of
the commodities and the infrastructures there.
The former co-owner of chain of malls in Northern Luzon was sworn into office by Regional Trial Court Judge Genoveva Maramba held at the family owned Stadia in Barangay Lucao here last June 30.
In her inaugural speech, she told the thousands of invited
attendees that she would implement July this year her campaign promise that tricycle
drivers and operators would no longer be billed to secure permit to operate,
regulatory and franchise fee up to year 2025.
She disclosed there the allocation of P200 million for this year for the
scholarship program of college students and the continuation of the
waste-to-energy project to address the nagging solid waste issues that besieged
the 174, 302 residents (2020 Census) of the richest city in Region-1.
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MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
I am a twenty years seasoned Op-Ed Political Writer in various newspapers and Blogger exposing government corruptions, public officials's idiocy and hypocrisies, and analyzing local and international issues. I have a master’s degree in Public Administration and professional government eligibility. I taught for a decade Political Science and Economics in universities in Metro Manila and cities of Urdaneta, Pangasinan and Dagupan. Follow me on Twitter @totoMortz or email me at totomortz@yahoo.com.
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