A sign of fresh efforts to address law and order, economic development, and improved government service, the new administration articulated its election campaign promises in the recently formulated EXECUTIVE-LEGISLATIVE AGENDA (ELA) for 2019-2022, which has been mutually developed and agreed upon by the executive and legislative departments of the Local Government Unit of Jimalalud in consultation with the various concerned stakeholders. It is a promise which We can and will keep.

Top-billing the agenda of both the executive and legislative departments of LGU-Jimalalud is the provision of logistics support for public order, which the new administration has pursued relentlessly. Also high in the agenda is the provision of logistics support for safety and emergency preparedness to ensure resiliency of communities against adverse impact of disaster and climate change.

Moreover, the new administration tries to deal with the decade-long underdevelopment of the municipality through improve infrastructure facilities and utilities in support the community, improved municipal living condition through sustainable economy; giving priority to marketing and promotion.

The other priorities in the list include development of social sector through improved education, social welfare and access to quality health services; integration of environmental plan for sustainable development; and good governance (transparency. livability and participation).

To borrow the language of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, no leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.

As such, I expect and call on my fellow public servants to respond accordingly to the battlecries of the Jimalaludnon’s hungry for genuine and meaningful change. May we make use of the ELA as our springboard to change.  From this day forward, lets hit the ground running!