By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff reporter
Batac
City—For the second time, the Sangguniang
Panlungsod (SP) here has won the regional Local Legislative Awards (LLA), thus
would again represent the Ilocos region in the national LLA search.
Batac officials, led by Mayor
Jeffrey Jubal Nalupta, received the trophy and plaque of recognition for
winning the regional LLA search. They received the trophy and plaque during the
End Term National Assembly of the Philippine Councilors’ League (PCL) in Iloilo
City on March 8.
In winning the regional
award, Batac’s council bested Laoag in the provincial level; and San Fernando,
Dagupan, Alaminos, Vigan, Urdaneta, San Carlos and Candon Cities in the
regional level under the component city category.
Batac has already won the
provincial LLA search thrice and was a regional winner in 2012.
Batac Vice Mayor and council
presiding officer Ronald Allan M. Nalupta thanked all the agencies involved in
the evaluation for on what the Sangguniang Panlungsod has accomplished in past
3 years.
Mr. Nalupta opted not to
attend the awarding because the mayor and majority of the city council members
were already there.
He said his office prepared
for the evaluation by complying with all the recommendations and suggestions
made during the last LLA evaluation.
The vice mayor thanked all
the council members and their secretariat headed by council secretary Gladys
Lagura for the full support and cooperation. He also thanked Batac’s interior
and local government officer Janet Duarte for her supervision.
He stressed that their being
a national LLA finalist is source of pride not only for the council members but
also for the whole city and its residents.
Batac councilor Winet
Quidang, who attended the awarding, related that according to the national
evaluators, there was a “very close fight” with all the regional winners.
Emerging as national LLA
champions are Kabankalan City for component city category; Quezon City for
highly urbanized city; Oton, Iloilo for 1st – 3rd class
municipality; and Mina, Iloilo for the 4th – 6th class
municipality.
The award was established by
the PCL in partnership with the Department of Interior and Local Government
(DILG0 to recognize the exemplary performance of sanggunians for legislating
measures that help build the foundation of meaningful local administration and
development.
This last LLA evaluation
covered performances for the period July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2015.
LLA aims to highlight
innovations and excellence in the legislative process with the end view of
inspiring other local legislators to perform better and institutionalize a
system of recognition to the SP and SB for exemplary performance.
Criteria include the
effectiveness of the legislative agenda; availability of legislative documents;
efficiency of performance of the sanggunian; quality of office set-up and staff
complement; legislative citations and awards; and capacity development for
legislators and staff.
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