Gov. Guico Urges Capitol Workers’ Coop to Offer Housing Loan

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan — Gov. Ramon Guico, III has asked the officers of the Provincial Government Employees’ Multi-Purpose Cooperative of Pangasinan (PGEMPCOP) to consider offering a housing loan on its packages to enable its members to own houses.

“I think you should study offering this loan package because we will soon have a housing program for our employees. I think many of you want to have their own houses,” Governor Guico told the new set of PGEMPCOP officers at the Urduja House after he swore them recently into their respective posts.

COOP. Pangasinan Governor Ramon Guico, III and the officers of the Provincial Government Employees’ Multi-Purpose Cooperative of Pangasinan (PGEMPCOP) flash the victory sign after the governor swore them into their respective posts held recently in the Urduja House at the Capitol in Lingayen, Pangasinan. Photo caption: Mortz C. Ortigoza

Janette Asis, provincial human resource management and development officer and PGEMPCOP General Manager, said the cooperative presently offers only salary and other short-term loans.

Asis said that it seed money grew from a measly P400,000 to a significant P26 million in the last eight years, and from more 300 members to the present 1,400 members constituents consisting of regular employees, casuals, consultants, and job order workers of the provincial government.

“I encountered some of our job order workers, who have been here for 15 years, 20 years. I asked where they lived and they said they were informal settlers somewhere. So, that is I think what we need to provide,” said Governor Guico.

At present, he said, the province needs 17,000 thousand houses a year.

This is one of the reasons, the governor stressed, why he had asked the conversion of the Provincial Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Center into a housing authority that will map out and build more houses for Pangasinenses.

“Anyway, what I’m only asking is for you to have a commitment to your work. I’m very considerate but when it comes to work, we have to be serious,” Governor Guico said.

He has been working so hard as the head of the mammoth province like he never did in the past, he told them

 Guico said that the cooperative should also focus on gaining more members to increase its present membership.

“We have 6,000 employees (in the provincial government). So, I think that you should have a more active campaign to entice them to join this cooperative,” Governor Guico exhorted the present 1,400 members.

To draw more members, the governor motivated the leadership of PGEMPCOP to be active in hailing the rest of the provincial personnel to join the cooperative by dangling more benefits like owning an abode.

 “I think you have enough funds for those who seriously want to acquire a house of their own,” he added.

 

(PangasinanPIO)