Only seven of the 17 local government units in Aklan passed the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) for 2016 of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). Three of these recipients - Malay (1st class) and third class towns of Banga and Ibajay were awardees of SGLG last year.
Notably, the province of Aklan had its ‘back-to-back’ SGLG award after it passed the DILG assessment for two consecutive years.
Other SGLG “Green scorecard” passers for year 2016 were the capital town and first-class municipality of Kalibo along with Batan (4th class) and fifth-class municipalities of Buruanga and Tangalan.
An incentive of P3-million from the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) will be received by these municipalities to jumpstart their local development projects.
Aklan province also had the most number of SGLG passers with seven municipalities followed by Iloilo with six (Dingle, Mina, Oton, Zarraga, Bingawan and New Lucena), Antique with four (San Jose de Buenavista, Bugasong, Culasi and Sibalom) and Capiz with two (Mambusao and Dumarao).
Other awardees were Iloilo province, Roxas City, Capiz province and Iloilo City. The provinces would receive P7-million in PCF fund for big projects while the cities will get P5-million each.
In 2015, the province of Aklan received P7-million PCF subsidy for the rehabilitation and improvement of Afga-Dumatad-Jawili Road in Tangalan, Aklan.
Using the PCF fund amounting to P3-million, the town of Banga purchased an ambulance and meat van while the town of Ibajay used the fund in improving public structures, buildings and facilities.
The PCF fund was also used to construct navigational lighthouse at Sambiray port in Barangay Sambiray, Malay, Aklan.
Three years ago, 12 LGUs were beneficiaries of the Seal of Good Housekeeping and became eligible for P18-million PCF subsidy. These towns were Buruanga, Malay, Nabas, Ibajay, Tangalan, Makato, Lezo, Kalibo, New Washington, Balete, Libacao and the province of Aklan.
Among the major projects were the construction of Tabon Malay Port terminal lounge; rehabilitation and concreting of farm-to-market roads in Guadalupe, Libacao; construction of Balete multi-purpose building; improvement of evacuation facilities in Makato and Ibajay; improvement and construction of existing Kalibo Ati-Atihan County Inn and municipal drainage system in New Washington; concreting of roads to Basang in Laserna, Nabas and a barangay road in Baybay, Tangalan; rehabilitation and improvement of Cabugan-Habana Road in Buruanga and concreting of Libacao-Banga provincial road (Badianga-Polo section).
Seal of Good Housekeeping program was the old version of SGLG, which was launched in 2010 by then DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo.
To obtain an SGLG Seal, the municipalities, cities or provinces should passed all three Basic Core Seal such as social protection, disaster preparedness and good financial housekeeping and at least one of the additional assessment areas on business friendliness and competitiveness, environmental management and peace and order.
BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
source:http://aklanforum.blogspot.com/
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