DIPOLOG
CITY, AUG. 15 (PIA)---Dipolog City got the highest rating among the
Local Government Units in Zamboanga Peninsula region, according to the
Department of Interior and Local Government’s(DILG) Local Governance
Performance Management System (LGPMS) Report.
This
was disclosed by Zamboanga del Norte DILG Provincial Director Arnel Gudio
during the Dipolog City Sangguniang Panlungsod’s LGPMS exit conference last August
8.
Gudio
said, based on the LGPMS Report or State of Local Governance Report as summed
up in its Overall Performance Index of the DILG, the Dipolog City LGU got
96.69% in 2011, the highest rating in the region.
According
to some DILG officers who accompanied Gudio during the LGPMS exit conference,
the rating qualifies Dipolog City for the national level competition for DILG’s
“Gawad Pamana ng Lahi” Award.
In the
20 indicators adopted by DILG to gauge Mayor Evelyn T. Uy’s Local governance of
the city, she came out outstanding in the 13 indicators.
These
are in the fields of local legislation; resource allocation and utilization;
customer service-civil applications; human resource management and development;
health services; support to education services; support to housing and basic
utilities; entrepreneurship, business and industry; forest ecosystems
management; freshwater ecosystems management; coastal ecosystems management;
participation of civil societies and other sectors; and transparency.
Dipolog
City Sangguniang Panlungsod Atty. Cyril Ruiz hoped that the city’s highest
rating (96.69%) on Local Governance Performance Management will silence the
critics of the City Government on the alleged mishandling of city’s finances.
Ruiz
stressed that the LGPMS Report is the best judge of Mayor Uy’s efficient
governance of Dipolog City. (JPA/ATR/PIA9-Zambo Norte)