Published on: February 19, 2023
By Marcelo Pedalino
MAASIN CITY (PIA) -- The city local government unit will touch base with its 70 barangays for governance purposes, especially on synchronized implementation of projects, programs, and compliance of instructions.
The move will be more pronounced this year in anticipation of another step up requirement over the seal of good local governance (SGLG), an award the city had bagged for four years already, even as elections at the barangay level are scheduled in October this year.
“SGLG has no limitation, unlike the Red Orchid Award,” Maasin City Mayor Nacional Mercado said in an interview last week on the sidelines of the citywide Barangay Kagawad Congress held at the provincial gym, “every year the qualifications vary, and its getting harder.”
But Mercado said he welcomed the stepped-up calibration, saying it is a challenge on their part to improve, to sustain performance.
From a field of six (6) parameters, the latest SGLG evaluation had 10, and there are feelers two more criteria may be added, this time involving barangays, since there was already an SGLG for barangays.
“We extend assistance to parameters the barangays must come up with, we help them, on disaster management, youth development, financial matters, environment, anything that is lacking,” Mercado said. (LDL/MMP/PIA Southern Leyte)
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