mayor nelson legacion – CITY OF NAGA

ANTI-RED TAPE Serbisyo, pigparikas mas pigpaposog kan syudad

CEPPIO Naga — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 08:30:32 +0000

Naglalaom si Alkalde Nelson Legacion na mas mapapakarhay pa kan lokal na gobyerno an pagserbisyo kun lilipotan pa an proseso kan mga transaksyon sa arin man na opisina kaini o departamento.

Sa saiyang executive order 2023-005 pigbilog kan alkalde an Naga City Committee on Anti-Red Tape tanganing adalan kun paano mapaparikas pa an pagtao nin serbisyo sa tao kaibahan na an paghaman nin mga lakdang para matarasan an mga proseso sa arin man na transaksyon pasiring sa pagpauswag pa kan pagserbisyo, alagad sa paaging bakong atrasado.

Pigsabi ni Legacion na padagos an pagbosol kan LGU Naga sa lindong kan saiyang administrasyon an pagiging silag kan mga transaksyon na nangyayari sa lokal na gobyerno kaibahan na an pagsyerto para sa mas posog na gobyernong igwa nin paninimbagan sa publiko.

Mismong an alkalde an mamomoon o mamamayo kan komitiba bilang chairman kaibahan an administrador kan syudad bilang vice chairman asin mga pamayo kan manlaenlaen na departamento bilang mga myembros.

Pigngaranan sa orden ehekutibo an Internal Audit Service kan syudad tanganing magserbing secretariat na igwang mandatong magtao nin serbisyo teknikal asin administratibo.

An pigbilog kan komitiba pigbase sa kahorotan kan Anti-Red Tape Authority na nagmamanda sa mga opisina nin gobyerno na magmukna kan siring na komitiba.

(Jason B. Neola, CEPPIO.)

LGU to fire up technology startups in colleges

CEPPIO Naga — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 08:00:27 +0000

Using its Digital Innovation Fund, the city government of Naga hopes that it can help students to become successful innovators one day from being learners who did well at their school projects.

With the program called the Idea2startup, the Naga City Investment Board (NCIB), in partnership with the Naga College Foundation (NCF), will promote the startup ecosystem by supporting the students in the generation of startup ideas, afterwards, funding the development of prototypes.

NCIB Head Reuel Oliver said that the program hopes to encourage students to come up with technology projects that are viable or have commercial potential, saying that the present generation is now in the innovation economy.

Commercial potential is the opportunity of commercialization of the candidate technology. Every new technology to reach market needs to thrive and prosper in a continuously changing and unpredictable business environment.

“The funds to be provided by the city government will help to inspire the students to produce prototypes of projects that can be commercially viable,” he said.

(Jason B. Neola, CEPPIO.)

Legacion tinawan awtoridad kan SP maki-koordinar para sa pet cemetery

CEPPIO Naga — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:00:45 +0000

TANGANING mareyalisar na an itinutulod na pet cemetery sa syudad nin Naga, pinagmarhay kan Sangguniang Panlungsod na ipasar an resolusyon na nagtatao nin awtoridad ki Mayor Nelson Legacion na maki negosyar sa land owners na posibleng magpabakal o magdonar nin daga para sa nasambit na lubungan.

Segun ki Councilor Joselito Del Rosario, Chairman kan Committee on Public Utilities kan Sanggunian, ipinasar na kan konseho an Ordinance no. 2022-042 para sa pag establisar kan pet cemetery sa syudad asin ipangalad an basang na pag-apon sa basurahan, salog, magin pagsulo sa nagadan nang ataman na hayop.

Alagad susug sa saiyang pag-adal sa ordinansa dae pa nakakapasar an Sanggunian nin resolusyon para sa nasambit na katuyuhan.

Aminado si Del Rosario na sa presente padagos an paghalat kan saiyang komite sa mga persona na interesadong ipabakal o idonar sa lokal na gobyerno an saindang daga para sa pet cemetery.

(Paulo Delos Santos, CEPPIO. Retrato hali sa Sangguniang Panlungsod Naga)

City lays out 2023 plan on new roads and parks

CEPPIO Naga — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:00:15 +0000

IMAGINE a multimodal tree-lined road alongside the Bicol River where one can go biking or jogging safely early in the morning or just before sunset.

Think also of a large open park with families and groups of friends leisurely spending their time and children socializing in playgrounds surrounded by bike and jogging lanes not too far from a well-maintained open-air concert ground and football field.

This scene will no longer be a figment of one’s imagination if the plans of the city government push through two years from now. Already, a new bypass road and access road are under construction, opening up the areas for proposed location of the Bicol River Esplanade and People’s Park and Recreation Center in Barangay Tabuco. The new thoroughfares are expected to help relieve traffic congestion along Roxas Avenue, especially with the scheduled opening of two large membership shopping complexes in the area later this year. Legacion has identified the tourism projects as a top priority given that Naga lacks adequate open spaces for recreation and leisure.

The city mayor said the project will be undertaken in 2024 and it is hoped that the city government can secure financial support from senators, congressmen, and government agencies. Legacion added that he has been meeting personally with potential sponsors of priority infrastructure projects to save the city government from spending its meager resources. A bridge connecting the Sagop Creek and the Bicol River Esplanade/Boulevard (Barangay Tabuco side) will also be constructed this year.

The city mayor also said that the Naga City Police Office Station 5, which is based at the Bicol Central Station, will set up a permanent headquarters in a 1,000 sq. meter lot inside the proposed People’s Park and Recreation Center to look after the area’s peace and order.

In another part of Naga, plans are underway to improve the access road from Magsaysay Avenue leading to the Balatas New Development Area. Last year, the city government finished constructing a crucial road link from the Naga City Science High School to the Balatas-Cararayan road, relieving traffic congestion at the Magsaysay-Dayangdang-Balatas junction. Mayor Legacion said that this road will be further developed into a four-lane road with P49.5 million provided by the office of Senator Ramon Revilla Jr.

To be funded with P20-M sourced as grant by Mayor Nelson Legacion from the office of Sen. Sonny Angara is the road widening project that will start from the corner of Magsaysay Avenue to the Naga City Science High School in Barangay Balatas where the aforementioned road begins.

The city government has already constructed the Balatas National High School to ease the strain on the Camarines Sur National High School, the Naga City Event Center II, the New Naga City Hospital, of which the construction is ongoing, the Urban Agriculture Training and Demo Farm Center, and an expanse of land where the Center for Safety and Resiliency will be put up. Soon to rise at the new development area is a large satellite market and bagsakan center for agricultural products to be put up by businessman Robert Obiedo, who is the proprietor of the Villa Caceres Hotel.

Legacion has assigned ACTO Chief Alec Santos to help draw up urban plans for the development of the newly opened areas starting with the Balatas New Development Area. Santos, a Career Executive Service Eligible, is currently taking up graduate studies at the University of the Philippines’ School of Urban and Regional Planning. He is also being tapped to help make plans for the large expanse of undeveloped land along Almeda Highway and the Bicol River where the Esplanade and People’s Park and Recreation Center will be constructed.

Soon to start also this year is the re-blocking and widening project along the Balatas-Cararayan-San Isidro-Carolina road with P300-M budget. The project will link with the already-widened portion of the road from Cararayan to San Isidro.

In an interview, the city mayor also disclosed that as part of the Department of Public Works and highways’ regular programing, the government agency has appropriated around P55-M for the implementation of its continued road widening project along the San Felipe-Pacol-Carolina road.

Regarding the construction of the 2.1-kilometer Almeda-Mabolo Bypass Road, the mayor said that the project has already an available complete budget of P400 million (P200-M for the construction of the bridge, and another P200-M for the road construction in Mabolo section) that is expected to be completed in year 2024.

(Jason B. Neola, CEPPIO)

Mayor Legacion: Apat pang public schools bubukasan sa 2023

CEPPIO Naga — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 02:00:39 +0000

Duwa sagkod sa apat pang public schools an bubukasan kan lokal na gobyerno kan syudad nin Naga sa masunod na taon huli kan padagos na pagdugang kan kaakian na boot makapag-eskwela sa public schools.

Ibinuyagyag ni Alkalde Nelson Legacion na an plano minauyon sa kahagadan kan Department of Education sa syudad nin Naga para sa dugang na classrooms. Sinabi ni Schools Division Superintendent Mariano de Guzman na huli kan nagsasakat na numero nin mga enrolees sa Don Manuel I. Abella Central School sa Cararayan, asin Naga City School of Arts and Trade sa Sabang, kaipuhan magtugdok pa nin mga classrooms.

Isinaysay ni Legacion na an pagpatindog nin mga bagong eskwelahan yaon sa saiyang mga priority programs, siring kan apat na mga eskwelahan na pigmukna sa laog kan saiyang primerong termino bilang alkalde, an Yabu Elementary School, Sta. Cruz National High School, Balatas National High School, asin an San Isidro National HS.

Plano kan syudad na duwa ngonang eskwelahan an enot na papatindogon asin iyan mangyayari sa Sitio Salunguigui sa Barangay Cararayan na harani sa mga settlement areas kan syudad, asin sa Barangay Mabolo na aapudon Mabolo National High School. Sa report na ipinaabot sa alkalde, pwedeng magkaigwa tolos nin 200 na mga paraadal an itutugdok na eskwelahan sa Mabolo.

(Jason B. Neola, CEPPIO.)

Para sa kaligtasan asin seguridad kan Nagueño

CEPPIO Naga — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 02:31:13 +0000

Tanganing mas mapangatamanan pa an seguridad asin kaligtasan kan Nagueño, hinagad ni Alkalde Nelson Legacion sa Naga City Police Office na higotan pa an implementasyon kan mga security measures sa laog kan syudad laban sa ano man na krimen.

Hinurot kan alkalde an makusog na kampanya kontra sa kriminalidad durante kan pigpaapod niyang command conference na pig atendiran kan mga pamayo kan Naga City Police Office, Pubic Safety Office, asin mga opisyales kan lokal na gobyerno kan syudad.

Pinag-orolayan sa command conference an short and long term plans para sa safety and security campaign kan gobyerno lokal kaibahan na an pagpapatapos kan Center for Safety and Resiliency sa Balatas New Development Area, an pagbugtak nin modernong communication center, asin pag instelar nin high definition CCTV security cameras sa manlaenlaen na lugar kan Naga.

Tinawanan duon kan alkalde na papakusogon man an partisipasyon kan mga force multipliers, mga barangay tanod asin volunteers laen pa kan pag deploy nin mga pulis asin PSO personnel sa mga tago asin pwerang lugar kan syudad.

Segun ki City Administrator Elmer Baldemoro, an lakdang kan lokal na gobyerno mamamate kan publiko sa tahaw kan nakakatakot na mga insidente nin biglaan na pagkakawara nin tawo, kadaklan hoben na mga babae, na natatagbuan na sana na mayo na nin buhay asin biktima nin panlulugos.

(Jason B. Neola, CEPPIO.)

Legacion delivers report on first 100 days in office

CEPPIO Naga — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 10:30:20 +0000

After expressing his gratitude for the new mandate that the Team Naga obtained during the May 2022 elections, Mayor Nelson Legacion underscored on Tuesday in his first 100 days report the list of big-ticket projects, priority programs and the action plan that his administration will implement to ensure the comprehensive development of the city and its people.

The mayor said that after taking their oath of office on June 25, this year, the team wasted no time to hammer out the city’s three- to six-year executive-legislative agenda with the department heads.

The projects and programs contained in the agenda cover the following clusters: Environment and Infrastructures, Social Services on Health, Education, Constituency Assistance, and Shelter; Economy, Institutional Development, Procurement and Finance; Public Safety, Transportation and Traffic Management.

The mayor’s report, which lasted for 52 minutes, went through with intermittent interruptions due to the applauses of more or less 36 times from the crowd.

New plan, new vision

He informed the assembly of more than 300 guests from different sectors inside the newly constructed event and multipurpose center at the Balatas New Development Area that the executive-legislative meeting has led them to come up with the new 9-year comprehensive development plan for 2022-2030, as well as the city government’s new aspirations for Naga expressed in the latest version of the Maogmang Lugar long-term vision.

Legacion said that their new vision calls for transforming Naga as a healthy city, built around people-centered development and collaborative governance.

“As I instructed the management team, we shall aim not only for the little things but more importantly for bold initiatives that would reposition Naga towards a path of faster growth and higher level development. The projects may take longer time to realize, but they shall be ready to pursue them nonetheless,” he said.

Emphasizing the city’s capability to synergize and work with various agencies of the national government as well as the private sector, the mayor expressed confidence that the challenges behind the implementation of the plan will appropriately be addressed.

“Full implementation of the plan will cost around P15.6 billion in new investments over the next 9 years, or P30.9 billion if we include the running cost of government. We will work with partners to secure the needed funding for these projects,” he said.

The development plan was approved by the Sangguniang Panlungsod on July 26, 2022 and was endorsed to the regional office of the Department of Interior and Local Government for review.

Key priority infra

Legacion, who organized the city’s Special Projects Team when he became mayor in 2019, said the group has already prepared project studies and detailed plans and costing for 10 priority road projects and 13 convergence projects jointly identified with the Department of Public Works and Highways for possible funding support by the national government.

He said that these projects will promote equitable and sustainable spatial development in the city by providing an efficient and responsive road system for easy movement of people, services, goods and information needed for citywide development.

The Special Projects Team includes new projects like
1. The San Isidro SLF-Palestina Bypass Road via Christ the King. This road-and-bridge project will connect Barangays San Isidro, Naga City (near the Sanitary Landfill area) and Palestina, Pili. It provides a much needed alternate access to the city highlands all the way to Magarao and Calabanga that bypasses the highly congested Naga-Pili boundary.

2. Pili (NGCP)-Dalipay, Milaor-Bicol Esplanade-Roxas Avenue Bypass Road. This new 9-km bypass road will connects Pili, Naga, and Milaor along the Bicol River banks and our People’s Park and Recreation Center (PPRC). This will provide travelers an opportunity to skirt the congested CBD 2, CBD 3, and Concepcion-Del Rosario area.

He said that two of the 10 priority projects already have firm funding commitments from the DPWH – the Center for Safety and Resilience (CESAR) in Barangay Balatas as well as the access road to the new PNR station in the barangays of Tabuco and Triangulo, which are getting an initial funding of P45 million each.

New biz district

The mayor also said that through the Naga City Investment Board and with the help of the United Architects of the Philippines, Camarines Sur chapter, the city has started to conduct masterplanning of the Balatas New Development Area, a major development project of the LGU that seeks to build on the momentum of Magsaysay growth area.

The city’s capital expenditures (or counterpart) to Balatas include a four-lane roadlink connecting Magsaysay and Balatas, a new 200-bed city hospital, a resilience and public safety center, urban agriculture demo farm and food park.

He said new mixed-use developments in the area will create new business and economic opportunities, jobs and livelihood for city residents and the business sector.

“We expect to formally launch the project later in this year once consultation with stakeholders, including the property owners and potential investors, are completed,” he said.

F2F Peñafrancia fiesta

On the city’s successful conduct of the in-person celebration of the Peñafrancia festivities after two years of being side-lined by Covid, Legacion said that as early as May, the city government has activated the institutional support groups that made it happen.

The triumphant celebration has reinvigorated the people’s devotion to the Peñafrancia, and promoted tourism and the downstream economic activities it generates – as evidence by the huge number of visitors that the pilgrim city welcomed.

Riverfront dev’t

With regard to the Bicol Riverfront area development as one of the flagship projects identified in the Green and Resilient Playbook (GRP) developed by Naga under the technical assistance project of the World Bank and League of Cities, the city mayor reported that they have touched base with DOTr and DPWH to arrange funding support for the Bicol River Esplanade and has begun the process of acquiring the 3-hectare project site.

“This project will provide access to the area, develop a new river park, and lay down ground-works for a new riverside bypass road connecting Pili, Milaor and Naga,” he said.

The centerpiece is the People’s Park and Recreation Center that will house an interactive water fountain, cafés, and a concert ground that can hold gatherings of at most 5,000 people.

Post-Covid normalcy

He said the triumphant conduct of in-person schooling since August is attributed to the city’s successful vaccination campaign under a partnership of the City Health Office, private medical professionals, and the provincial and regional offices of the Department of Health.

“While we are optimistic that the process will reach a successful conclusion, we continue to urge Nagueños to practice the minimum public health standards and get boosted to protect ourselves from the virus that is still very much around,” he stressed.

The mayor said that the resumption of the People’s Day initiative last week at the People’s Hall ensures the city government responsiveness to its customers’ needs. He said: “The People’s Day initiative is yet another proof that we have put the pandemic behind us.”

It was in the new multipurpose center that the city mayor delivered his report. He thanked the generous funding from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) that financed the construction of the building, the second evacuation center established in Naga.

Feather on cap

The mayor shared in the gathering the confirmation received by his office from the National Innovations Council of the NEDA which said that one of the city’s four entries to the competitive 2022 Innovation Grants of the national government – the Naga City Start-up Ecosystem Development Program – made it to the list of grantees, from a total of 451 entries from national and local government agencies nationwide.

Thanking the vibrant partnership between the government and private sector, including the city’s academic partners and start-up companies, the city mayor said that the grant, which amounts to P7.5 million, will further enable the city’s start-up industry to soar to greater heights. He also congratulated Reuel Oliver of the Naga City Investment Board and his team for doing a great job.

Saying that traffic congestion brought about by the city government’s drive to return to normalcy will not go away, Legacion said that they are working with the DPWH and the LTO so that the Local Public Transport Route Plan can be approved and rationalize and upgrade local public transport.

“The plan, by the way, promotes non-motorized public transport options, like walking and biking, and the city will invest in construction and upgrading our sidewalks and pedestrian lanes, as well as expand a network of protected bike lanes,” he said.

On water supply, the mayor said that the distribution of potable water continues to be a challenge for some areas of the city. He, however, said that the city government’s close partnership with the Metro Naga Water District will enable the water firm to catch up. “It is in our best interest to help it succeed lest it fall prey to privatization that elsewhere actually led to higher bills and even more undependable service.

On power supply, the mayor said that with the uncertainties in the world market, power rates will continue to be high. “But we are confident that a multibillion-peso solar farm in Carolina will help Casureco 2 diversify its supply and allow us to tap more competitively priced renewable energy options,” he said.

In addition, the mayor said that the city is also being helped by the Department of Energy to jumpstart a city-owned our biomass project (aka waste-to-energy or WTE) using the municipal solid waste at the San Isidro SLF as feedstock. “With DOE’s technical help, we should be able to make the best decision possible from the options available to us,” he said.

The city mayor concluded his report by inspiring the crowd, saying that “some of these factors are beyond our control. Some, however, are. Rest assured that under Team Naga, we will make sure that public interest will always be paramount and our common aspirations for Maogmang Lugar will come true.”

(Jason B. Neola, CEPPIO.)

Dapit sa piggibong first 100 days report ni Alkalde Legacion

CEPPIO Naga — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:00:24 +0000

Angelica Durante, estudyante kan Universidad de Sta. Isabel (USI)

“Nakakaogma ang pigpaabot satuya ni Mayor Nelson Legacion sa paagi kan saiyang report manongod sa 100 days in office kan satuyang mga city officials huli kan mga projects and programs para sa satuyang syudad. Alagad, an mas nakatao sakuya nin kaogmahan asin interes iyo an pagrani niya sa mga kapareho kong hoben tanganing konsultahon asin aramon an samuyang mga pagmati.

Pigdadangog niya an tingog bako sana kan mga kamagurangan asin nagkakapira, kundi magin man an kahobenan na nangangahulugan sana na dae kami papabayaan kan syudad.

Magayon po an nakoang record ni Mayor orog na sa pagtolod kan kampanya kontra sa Covid sa panahon kan pandemya na kun saen naging magayon an piggibong selebrasyon kan Peñafrancia fiesta.

Proud akong maging parte kan mga paghingoha na makamtan an kauswagan bako sana kan syudad kundi kan mismong Nagueño.”

Dianne Gonzales, estudyante kan Universidad de Sta. Isabel (USI)

“The city mayor presented a very reassuring report on his 100 days in office by informing us about the city government’s projects and programs that are truly beneficial to the Nagueño. Aside from the big-ticket projects and programs that the government has been pursuing, we learned from the report that the city mayor and the rest of the city government officials and employees are working hard to implement sound traffic management and many more.

I am truly inspired by what I heard from the mayor. On my part, I promise to be more perseverant and dedicated in all my undertakings as a youth so that I shall be given the opportunity someday to become a good public servant like what we have today.”

(Jason B. Neola, CEPPIO.)