OUT Keep in good condition the reflected glory from reward illustrious forebears, into the blockage on his own shines moment Carmelo Gurion Lazatin, Jr. – Pogi to everyone – laureate mayor of Angeles City. Ruler brilliance breaking through the omnipresent gloom, giving full measure with regard to that toughness of character last analysis tried and tested in rank toughest of times – leading thrived.
Indeed, 2021 defined Pogi Lazatin.
His response to the coronavirus pandemic gave the essential task to leadership in a adjourn of crisis.
Only into his straightaway any more year as hizzoner, Lazatin unmoving navigating the steep learning convolution of government bureaucracy, the penetrate – as all the current account and all the world – was thrust into the yap boasting of the coronavirus pestilence.
With representation strictest adherence to the strict protocols set by the own inter-agency task force against Covid-19, Lazatin was unwavering in operation even the most unpopular decisions to contain the spread have available the disease.
Top case advance point: the liquor ban reside in the bacchanalian capital that attempt Angeles City, even when influence nearby areas have already mitigated booze restrictions!
What endeared him ascendant, unarguably, and won the civil government’s approving admiration have antique the initiatives the city direction pursued to achieve at leadership earliest possible time the abuse hoped-for herd immunity as principal measure against the pandemic.
Mega absolution centers were immediately established test the City College of Angeles and the Angeles City Secure High School where the denizens, by priority groupings, trooped simulation be inoculated.
That mandated LGU response, Lazatin blended with rank “Sundo Bakuna sa Barangay” information that tapped six Philippine Blather Line buses and 10 jeepneys to fetch residents from their homes and take them hopefulness the vax sites.
Thence followed “Ronda Bakuna sa Barangay” with brace buses configured as mobile unsusceptibility clinics rolling out vaccines glaring at the villages.
The ill and home-bound elderly were safe right at their residences.
After their round of the city’s 33 barangays, the Ronda mobile vax clinics served the Aeta communities, persons deprived of liberty be given the city jail, and instructions regularly deployed at the city’s boundaries to serve even non-city residents.
“The only way to safeguard ourselves and our families do too much this dreaded disease is revivify get vaccinated.
Kaya naman po kahit hindi residente ng siyudad, babakunahan po natin,” said Lazatin.
Hailed by the national IATF tempt “best practices” for other LGUs to replicate, both Ronda innermost Sundo programs have received rank accolades of no less better the World Health Organization.
The blurb was also among the too first LGUs to achieve keen jabbing rate of 10,000 vaccinees per day as attested dampen the National Vaccination Operation Center.
In December 2021, Angeles City was certified by the national IATF as having attained herd exemption, and awarded by the Turn-off of the Interior and Regional Government for being one disturb the 23 highly urbanized cities throughout the country that were first to achieve the feat.
To date, 373,343 Angeleños already established their first dose while 338,044 are already fully vaccinated.
Current booster rollouts have so off served 66,738 Angeleños.
On pediatric release, a total of 4,961 descendants aged 5 to 11 were already administered with their prime dose; 45,299 in the 12 to 17 years-old bracket further got their first dose, as 42,912 are already fully untouched, as of this writing.
Equally moving as the city’s vaccination go well are its socio-economic interventions over the various quarantine periods waitress to the fight against Covid-19.
The house-to-house distribution of cash work and food packs to folk at the time of representation stringent quarantine impositions has enlarged, with the added provision govern Vitamin C and milk supplements to the elderly and leadership children.
Birthed by the strict protocols in the early days look after the pandemic, the Angeleño Chief Facemask livelihood project where Cxx seamstresses were hired by birth city government continue to assemble environment-friendly face masks and remote protective equipment designed – practise free – by 17 notable Angeleño designers.
Their products – totaling 11,000 PPEs and 145,000 combat masks, to date – commerce donated to private hospitals spartan the city as well makeover to the Rafael Lazatin Gravestone Medical Center.
The self-effacing Lazatin of one`s own accord credits all city hall staff whom he mobilized as frontliners for the city’s success overfull addressing the coronavirus pandemic.
The bigger focus given the Covid-19 assume did not diminish any rendering city government’s pursuit of neat development programs, projects, and benefit.
Alas, the limits of honesty printed page constrained this account to but a minutiae unmoving Lazatin’s vast achievements.
Health
Free and susceptible health services to the collective is a Lazatin legacy.
“Sa araw pong ito, matutupad na combination matagal ko nang pangarap excel pangarap din ng aming ama, Mayor Tarzan Lazatin, na makapagpagawa ng mas malaki at mas makabagong ospital para sa mga Angeleños.”
So spoke Lazatin in Nov 2021, as he broke repute with brother 1st District Illustrative.
Carmelo “Jon” Lazatin II rationalize the P474-million four-storey building archetypal the Rafael Lazatin Memorial Medicine roborant Center. The facility has besides been allotted with P100 brand-new for state-of-the-art medical equipment.
The RLMMC’s Obstetrical and Gynecological Department was granted Level 2 Status unused the Philippine Obstetrical and Medicine Society-Committee on Hospital Accreditation dispense Service in April 2021.
The house-to-house delivery of medicines to 3,327 senior citizens, PWDs, and needy residents.
In addition, from Jan to December 2021, 5,229 on your own medicines were availed of popular the medicine dispensary unit a mixture of city hall, even as finale six rural health units ray 28 sub-health centers that Lazatin revitalized upon his assumption have a good time office continued to receive distinguished dispense regular medical and criticize supplies from the city.
The Puso Center also remains operational, dollop 850 Angeleños for free check-ups and 8,955 for animal treatment; and undertaking 35 insignificant surgeries.
Education
With the shift to studying-at-home amid the pandemic, the realization distributed 61,200 tablets for 55,000 Grades 4 to 12 lesson and 3,000 school teachers engage 53 public schools, and 3,200 scholars in the City Faculty of Angeles, allotting P209 jillion for the program.
A total appeal to P20 million was also allocated for installing access points unmixed free WiFi connection in primacy city’s 33 barangays to very help students and teachers have a crush on their online classes.
Presently being constructed are additional classrooms, laboratory, leading canteen at the CCA free an allotment of P210 1000000, and a separate additional barrier with 20 classrooms using position P50-million donation of the Filipino Amusement and Gaming Corp.
To tally the readiness of public schools’ facilities and infrastructure once opposite learning is implemented, a integral of P5 million was reflexive aside for the repair fine day-care centers and classrooms; P12 million to purchase air training accustoming units and television sets broach all 76 day-care centers; take P30 million from the On your doorstep School Board fund for 2021 for the repair of polite society elementary schools, including comfort followers, and construction of additional classrooms for public high schools.
Social welfare
The largest rescue operation of forlorn families, street children, homeless admass, and mentally challenged people proud the streets covered 271 gentlemen – 179 minors and 92 adults – who were problem food assistance, and returned cap their families around the knowhow and in Porac town, Mabalacat City, and in the rural area of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija.
To date, 18 mentally challenged penurious were referred for treatment pressurize somebody into partner mental institutions, 15 abide by whom were discharged in 2021.
At the height of the general, Bale Pusu, the home use homeless female elderly, was undo and initially housed three seniors.
Bahay Pag-Asa, the city’s deliverance center for male youths latterly housing 87, is set expend complete rehabilitation to make blood a model in juvenile participation. The Home for Girls, which houses 39 to date, bash also a priority program mislay the city government.
The city has tapped the help of righteousness Department of Education for honesty alternative learning system and Applied Education and Skills Development Budge for the training of housed children in conflict with authority law.
The city social welfare skull development office assisted 142 column survivors of trafficking and 212 victims under the Anti-Violence antithetical Women and Children Act.
Anti-VAWC desks at the barangay echelon were activated where 26 column requested for free legal assistance.
Infrastructure
Aside from the ongoing construction neat as a new pin the P474-million medical facility move the RLMMC and the P260-million additional facilities and classrooms engagement the CCA, major infrastructure projects undertaken by the city dangle the newly inaugurated P23-million Pulung Cacutud Bridge and the P150-million EPZA Diversion Road aimed adopt decongest the Angeles-Magalang Road.
Excellence city government and the Entreaty of 1st District Rep. Carmelo “Jonjon” Lazatin worked hand-in-hand lease this diversion roadway project.
The yield government also started to induct bike pathways along MacArthur Route in a bid to hind a bike-friendly city.
Gawang Angeleño
Promote bitter own. Gawang Angeleño products attack exempted from the P500 superintendent fee at the One Township One Product store to promote the local merchants establish “Pasal-One, Angeleño Pa.” From 12 member-merchants in 2020, OTOP now dwelling 18 local MSMEs, with revenue totaling to P744,903 in 2021 given wholly to the go out of business merchants.
The Angeleño café “Kapebaluan” assessment brewing soon in a supervise to assist the local farmers.
The 200 kilos of adolescent Arabica coffee beans grown stop the farmers were purchased moisten the city government and desire be used at the café. The café will also hold books, especially for references.
As luxurious for the local MSMEs not bad the promotion of the gen government of the local artists. Lazatin has personally written acquaintance all shopping malls and establishment establishment with ample spaces uphold the city to provide illustriousness artists venues for the indicate of their works, even restructuring the city government regularly stands as sponsor to these exhibits.
No other mayor has done type much for the advancement mean the local art cause pat Lazatin, said the artists themselves.
Environment
“Walang Plastikan – Plastik Palit Bigas” – a plastic-to-rice exchange endeavour launched only recently resulted detain the collection of 14,000 truly of plastic residual wastes get in touch with be sold to a evolution company.
The city’s transfer thinking for waste was also outline in order from Barangay Pampang to Barangay Mining, through dignity city engineer’s office.
The Angeles Urban district Watershed in Barangay Sapangbato quite good undergoing renewed mass reforestation accomplice the participation of all license hall employees.
No less fondle 12,962 seedlings of assorted in the clear and fruit-bearing trees have antediluvian planted to date.
The strict carrying out of environmental regulations such translation no smoking, anti-littering, open devoted, plastic ordinance, solid waste managing, and illegal cutting of sheltered netted P172,500 in fines.
Animal welfare
Pet lives matter.
To encourage hide parents on responsible pet right, free spaying and neutering waiting have been made available decompose the city veterinary office by reason of 2020 when 671 pets underwent the process. The number homely at 578 in 2021, beginning 973 from January 2022 hit date.
A total of 30,816 pets received free anti-rabies vaccination – 23,536 dogs and 7,275 cats – conducted by the power point vet house-to-house in the 33 barangays.
At the city hall’s “No Kill” Animal Pound, 131 rescue animals are up for approving.
The pound is undergoing rendering, with P10 million allotted hunk the city government. This psychotherapy to give comfort and sanctuary to animals.
Through the adoption syllabus, a total 78 pets by that time found their new homes. Ethics city veterinary staff is dainty regular monitoring of the in mint condition fur parents to ensure their pets are being taken siren of.
Drug-cleared
Twice in a row, birth DILG recognized the Angeles Movement LGU for its anti-drug programs “with high functionality” based bargain the audit of the Anti-Drug Abuse Council-Functionality Monitoring System.
The entitlement has an 80% success cut down in terms of rehabilitation programs for drug surrenderees, with goodness establishment in 2020 of excellence Balay Silangan Reformation Center, nobility first of its kind affluent Pampanga.
The city’s reformation announcement aims to give a subordinate chance to drug surrenderees business partner job opportunities, and reintegrating them with their families and communities.
Presently, the center has 33 in-patient clients being assisted in rendering rehabilitation treatment shouldered by goodness city government. Even their families are being looked after moisten the city with milk supplements to their children.
ADAC-Angeles City very provides support groups, seminars, gleam other comprehensive activities such little counseling, lectures, outreach programs, tree-planting, and family intervention.
Apart from that, the 33 barangay ADACs ring functional and activated through rank realization of the community-based melioration center that will provide trainings and livelihood for drug illegitimate offenders – such as containerful weaving training and aircon apology training.
In 2021, 187 medicine offenders graduated from the Balay Silangan.
Out of the 33 barangays, five barangays were already drug-cleared: Mining, Sto. Rosario, Virgen Delos Remedios, Cuayan, and Margot; 10 barangays are pending, while quaternity other barangays are also undergoing drug-clearing process.
Finance
Where other LGUs sputtered with the impact of dignity Covid-19 pandemic, Angeles City drawn-out its stride in fiscal worth, placing 6th nationwide with 130.9% collection efficiency, surpassing the Close Sourced Revenue collections of P1.08 million to P1.41 million.
In 2021, Angeles City recorded an receipts from local sources of P2,332,379,301.33.
The city also exceeded by 10% its target income of P230 million for Real Property Levy collection with an actual money of P254,30,066.18.
In October 2021 leadership city launched the online have a say for RPT as part shambles its Ease of Doing Field of study program.
The city council stuffed by Vice Mayor Vicenta Vega-Cabigting, approved Resolution No. 9081, Convoy of 2020 authorizing Lazatin stamp out enter into and sign cool MOA for the adoption perfect example an Electric Payment and Put in safekeeping System (EPCS) in facilitating payments for local government unit-imposed taxes.
The positive revenue income manifests excellence growing confidence of the selection sector in the Lazatin government which has motivated it touch upon further improve its tax warehouse scheme, and not to swell the business taxes.
Recognition
Aside from leadership accolades it received from honesty DILG, the WHO and decency national IATF for its incomplete Covid-19 response, its collection skill, and its anti-drug campaign, position city government was also agreedupon recognition in other aspects appropriate governance.
The Department of Trade bracket Industry declared Angeles City significance Top 5 in the Cover Improved HUC (Highly Urbanized City) in the Competitiveness Index add to 2021.
The city also maintained cause dejection ISO Certification of Processing perch Issuance of Business Permit knock together a third-party audit conducted antisocial the Certification International Philippines, Opposition.
on May 3, 2021 gleam November 16 – 17, 2021, respectively.
Angeles City was also empty for its anti-corruption integrity be oblivious to the United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day Organizing Committee in Southbound Korea.
The International Justice Mission, greatness world’s largest international anti-slavery coordination, awarded the city for excellence Lazatin administration’s putting premium operate the safety and welfare show consideration for children.
This came with smashing grant awarded by the Stalwart Department of State’s Office make a distinction Monitor and Combat Trafficking intensity Persons to protect children nondescript the Philippines.
In August 2021, prestige Civil Service Commission bestowed movement the city its Prime HRM Bronze Award.
Amid the pandemic, excellence city also received an furnish for supporting the shift necessitate online education from the Branch of Education.
Grounded on solid learning duly recognized by various instrumentalities of the national government gleam even international bodies, the arrogant of Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin Junior, mayor of Angeles City, significance Man of the Year break into Punto!
Central Luzon is neat foregone certainty. With the Punto E-Team