Mangaldan Mayor Tells Sec. Abalos: We Follow the DILG’s Visions

                            ON THE COUNTLESS NAT’L AWARDS SHE GOT

By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan – The mayor here told Department of Interior & Local Government Secretary Benjamin "Benhur"Abalos, Jr. that the countless national awards this first class municipality garnered were due to the values it soldiered on from the DILG’s tenets.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR & LOCAL GOVERNMENT SECRETARY Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos (extreme right) and Mangaldan Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno pressed flesh when the former inaugurated the P5 million solar street lights in the Angalacan River Mangaldan Eco-Tourisms Road his office bestowed to the local government headed by Parayno. Photo Credit: Mangaldan's Public Information Office

“Ganito po pinapatakbo ng aking administrasyon ang ating LGU; kung kaya’t patuloy tayong umaani ng ibat’ ibang parangal at gantimpala. At dahil sa ating SGLG Award ng 2022 tayo ay nakatanggap ng Limang Milyong (pesong) halaga ng proyekto na galing sa DILG – Seal of Good Local Governance’s incentive fund,” declared in part by Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno to Secretary Abalos when he graced recently the inauguration of the multi-million pesos solar lightning given by the DILG for the Angalacan River Mangaldan Eco-Tourism Road. The ten kilometers length river snakes on the 12 of the 30 villages here.

She said the lightning system would guide the path of her constituents when they go home from works and schools.

“Mga motorist, mangangalakal, mga turista, ang mga gustong mag-jogging o maglakad-lakad sa gabi habang nababanaag ang ilog Angalacan at pinapakinggan ang huni ng mga ibon at tahimik na pagdaloy ng tubig sa ilog. Tunay na malaking serbisyo, benepisyo at pakinabang ang hatid ng proyektong ito sa ating bayan”.

Mayor Parayno lauded the Secretary for the valued project and hailed his presence for personally feting the P5 million street lights.

When the former U.S resident Parayno ran and won the 2013 mayoralty race against vice mayor Bernardo “Berex” Abalos and until she bowed down from office in June 30, 2019, this central Pangasinan town swasbuckled on the limelight as it became recipient of various national government awards. These plaudits were four Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) awards. 

SGLG is the gold standard on gauging the exemplary performances of the chief executive and his/her staff in administering a local government unit.

The fifth SGLG grant came in 2022 when she returned again in the mayorship here after defeating former Mayor Marilyn Lambino. Parayno expects her sixth SGLG award after the assessment by the national government in September this year.

Other grants the Parayno Administration received were as first place among LGUs in Pangasinan in the 2022 SubayBAYANI Awards, Gawad Kalasag Seal of Excellence and Child-Friendly Municipality awardee. The Municipality Social Welfare and Development (MSWD) has been recognized for attaining the Level 2 – Functional Status during the conduct of Service Delivery Capacity Assessment for calendar year 2022.

This town’s Civil Registrar became an Outstanding Local Civil Registry in the Medium Category thus becoming the first Recipient of PhilSys Birth Registration Assistance in Region 1.

“At palagi din naming nasusungkit ang mga recognitions na nanggagaling sa DILG sa area ng Anti-Drug Abuse Council sa mga Performance Audits nito hanggang sa National Level”.

DILG Sec. Benjamin Abalos (extrem left) confers with Mangaldan Mayor Bona Fe. D. Parayno, Manaoag Mayor Jeremy Agerico Rosario and Binmaley Mayor Pedro Merrera in his visits at Mangaldan. He graces the P5 million solar street lights in the Angalacan River Mangaldan Eco-Tourisms Road his office bestows to the local government headed by Parayno. Photo Credit: Mangaldan's Public Information Office

Her administration became a bronze awardee of how she managed and implemented the Human Resource Management System under the enhanced Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human Resource Management (PRIME-HRM) in the national level.

This town was awarded recently by the Department of Trade and Industries on Cities and Municipalities Competitive Index as 10^th Place Nationwide in the overall Competitiveness for the category 1^st to 2^nd Class Municipalities; 11^th Place Nationwide for Economic Dynamism; and 20^th Place Nationwide for the Innovation it had been implementing on its Business Permit and Licensing Office.

“In health, we are 3^rd Placer in the Search for Best Performing LGU Voluntary Blood Service Program. We were also awarded as Lead Developer of Quality and Responsive Local Investment Plan for Health and Annual Operational Plan”.

Parayno told Abalos that she reaped all these awards because she ran the municipality under the 10-Point Tenets of the DILG on good governance.

These tenets are the Financial Administrative and Sustainability; Disaster Preparedness; Social Protection and Sensitivity; Investment on Health System; Sustainable Education; Business –Friendliness and Competitiveness; Safety, Peace and Order; Environment Management; Tourism Industry; and Youth Development.