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Laoag City’s ‘Rang-ay ti Barangay’ resumes
By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff Reporter
Laoag
City—The city government program that brings
it closer to the people has resumed.
Laoag mayor Chevylle V.
Fariñas said the first “Rang-ay ti Barangay” event was held at Brgys. 29,
Bacsil North and Bacsil South during the first week of June.
She expressed hopes that all
of the city’s 80 barangays would be visited before the end of 2014.
“Rang-ay ti Barangay” not
only brings city hall to the people, it also determines their most important
needs so they could act on them.
This version of “Rang-ay ti
Barangay”, as The Ilocos Times
observed, is more orderly as the different offices and agencies have their own
areas specifically marked.
Among the services brought by
the program include free medical and dental services; milk and supplemental
feeding; socialization for senior citizens; registration of birth, death and
marriage; free pap smear; payment of taxes; free appraisal and assessment;
lecture/film viewing of solid waste management; assistance in the registration
of business; blood typing; Comelec biometrics/registration; and free legal
counsel.
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Wheel chair distribution and
other assistive devices, livelihood trainings; capital assistance; police women
and children’s desk; repair and maintenance of street lights; delivery of
gravel and sand; free vaccination and castration of animals; distribution of
seedlings and eye glasses; and “Libreng Gupit” from TESDA, are also offered.
Ms. Fariñas said that all of these
services will be available in all Rang-ay events.
The mayor however noticed
that most of the barangay requests are for materials that they need but has no
budget for them.
At Barangay 29, requests were
for jetmatic pumps, fertilizers, sprayers, sports equipment, concrete pavements
and others.
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Ms. Fariñas vowed to give all
of the barangays’ requests provided funds would be available.
The city government has an
equal sharing program with all the barangays for their infrastructure and
non-infrastructure projects.
Meanwhile, Laoag police
officer-in-charge P/Supt. Jeffrey Gorospe personally led the police contingent
where they lectured on the law on violence against women and children.
Mr. Gorospe advised children
and women not to be afraid to come out and report immediately to the nearest
police station, with the help of trained lady police personnel, any type of
violence against them.
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For her part, community
affairs division chief Mylene Pascual said the program now includes the lecture
and film viewing on solid waste management in line with the city government’s
campaign for a zero waste management program and the segregation at source.
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Ms. Pascual said all the
department heads were required to submit their accomplishments report to the
office of the mayor during the Rang-ay in order for them to monitor if all the
services and requests for the barangays were served and delivered.
She added the city government
also taps the national agencies like the Social Security System (SSS), Government
Service Insurance System (GSIS), (Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA), and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) among others to
bring their services closer to the people.
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