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- Major Accomplishments for 2011: City implements P66.3-M Projects
- STAGE wins TAYO Award 2011
- DILG cites Legazpi as 'Business Friendly City'
- DILG honors Legazpi with Gawad Pamana Award for good governance
- AECID adopts environmental program as flagship in Spain-PHL partnership
- A Breakthrough for Micro, Small Entrepreneurs: AECID- funded properties donated to Legazpi City
- Legazpi City tops RPT collection in Bicol
- DILG sponsors training for newly elected barangay officials
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| DILG cites Legazpi as 'Business Friendly City' | ||
| City Hall Windows October - December 2011 issue 2011-12-12 | ||
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| THE CITY OF LEGAZPI has been labeled in the government's campain to achieve no-bust and long-term growth needed for countryside development and poverty reduction as one of the region's most business-friendly local government units (LGUs). The campaign is aimed at addressing the general perception that corruption, attributed to red tape, lack of political will on the part of local chief executives to carry out reforms and lack of vigilance on the part of the private sector to demand bureaucratic reformations is prevalent at the local level. City Mayor Geraldine B. Rosal received the plaque of recognition representing the Business Permit and Licensing System (BPLS) Award that recognizes the city's best practicing BPLS reforms. It was handed down by Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jessie Robredo in simple ceremonies held in the city on December 12, 2011. The formation of business-friendly LGUs is being spearheaded by the DILG under its stepped up implementation of Project CURE (Comprehensive Response to Eliminate Red Tape) in the local level to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of LGUs in the delivery of basic goods and services through policy audit and compliance tracking of local anti-red tape initiatives. Among the anti-red tape initiatives being looked into in determining business-friendly LGUs are their compliance with the formulation of citizen charters and establishment of their public assistance or complaint desks, one stop shop or walk-in services and courtesy lanes for pregnant women, senior citizens and persons with disabilities. In support to the campaign, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has entered into a memorandum circular with the DILG for the nationwide streamlining of BPLS reform project to speed up the issuance of these requirements by city and municipal governments in order to encourage more investors in their localities. The City of Legazpi is by far among the only LGU in Bicol that have completed their streamlining operations, having paving the way for theses areas to become "havens of investment", Robredo said during the awarding ceremonies. This city boast of influxes of new businesses established over the past few years and those are proofs that indeed their LGUs have been able to make putting up investments in their respective localities easier and favorable on the part of the investors, the public and the LGUs that are now earning substantial revenues, the DILG chief said. On part of this city, Rosal said, her place is now fully saturated by dozens of top class hotels, posh malls, giant bargain centers, convenient stores, recreational accommodations, transport terminals and famous restaurants including internationally known food chains. "We have among others the billion-peso Embarcadero de Legazpi, a world-class tourist-oriented commercial hub sitting on a vast sea front property at the heart of the city; the Pacific Mall which is a multi-million-peso investment of the business giant; Gaisano Corporation and the Central Transport Terminal, a P300-million Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) undertaking", Rosal said. The Liberty Commercial Center (LCC), the original mall in the city had also aggressively expanded its investments by putting up more stores at several strategic locations around the city while commercial banks have been continuously establishing local branches, she said. Apart from these, more an more new investments in information technology and business process outsourcing (BPO) firms are coming in and taking in thousands of local workers, Rosal added. |
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