BAGUIO CITY – A day after marking the administration’s first 113 days in office last Oct. 21, city executives led by Mayor Benjamin Magalong and City Administrator Bonifacio Dela Peña assessed the 15-point core collective agenda to determine the status of the programs, projects and activities (PPAs) set for implementation by 2020.
The mayor, in his first 100 days speech, rallied the people to now look beyond as the first 100 days was “simply the starting point to show us the right way.”
Taking cue from the mayor, Dela Peña initiated the benchmarking of all the PPAs in the management committee meeting held Oct. 22 saying that to move forward, the city needs to determine the state of all the programs along with the hindrances that deter the accomplishment of the targets for fine-tuning of strategies, thus the benchmarking activity.
They evaluated all of the PPAs under each of the core agenda namely: Speeding Up Government Actions; Revitalizing the Environment; Innovating Peace and Order Condition; Aggressive Traffic Management; Responsive Education Programs; Empowering the Youth; Expanding Health and Social Services; Responsible Tourism; Enlivened Culture, Arts, Crafts, and Heritage; Market Modernization; Efficient Disaster Management; Empowered and Accountable Barangay Governance; Strengthened Livelihood and Entrepreneurial Services; Poverty Reduction; and Resolution of Indigenous People’s Land Issues).”
The city administrator urged the department heads to focus on and fast-track all the PPAs and to ensure that these will be ready for implementation starting 2020.
“Address all the problems this early so these will be on track. We do not want these plans to stay as blueprints. Everything that we had talked about here has to take off,” he said.
Dela Peña made sure that all the PPAs have a timeline so the plans need not stay “open-ended.”
He said the Bids and Awards Committee which he heads had been working hard to get the bidding processes going and avoid delays in the project implementation.
“We are at the threshold of a construction boom in 2020 with all these major projects lined up. So please follow through all the PPAs assigned in your departments,” he urged. ** Aileen P. Refuerzo
