Addressing before the
crowd at the city hall stage, he mentioned the accomplishments made by
his administration during his 9 years of service as a local chief
executive before he proceeded to the House of Representatives.
During the period, a
slogan of “Bag-o nga Calbayognon” was imprinted in all identification
cards issued by the city encouraging participation and collaboration
of all local government employees and elective officials in order to
achieve progress for the city.
Celebrating its 62nd
cityhood and serving the people for 24 years, Uy said that anyone
could tell how Calbayog has grown.
“Yana nga ika-62 anyos
san Calbayog, nakita naton an pag-uswag tikang sa 1992 hasta yana nga
akon pagdumara. Sa pagkaurusa dida gud man ngay-an makakab-ot an
kaupayan san aton ciudad”, he declared.
He believed that the
team USA which stands for Uy, Sarmiento and Aquino could do more with
the help of the Sanggunian through the people’s “straight LP voting
strategy”, where no opposition was given a seat in the legislative
since 2007 up to the present.
Aside from the
“straight LP voting strategy”, he also encouraged his employees
including elective officials to regularly attend the flag raising and
retreat ceremony as a manifestation of respect to the national flag,
which in a way a good example of effecting better services to the
people in order to achieve laudable performances in their respective
area of work while in the process of implementing the different
Tri-District programs and projects of his administration.
Part of the
celebration was the unveiling of Aguit-itan Development Project, with
a structure of a medium rise 2-story building which would cater 500
families identified by the Urban Housing Department as informal
settlers living in said area.
Since Calbayog and the
first district of Samar have been regular recipients of EVRMC (Eastern
Visayas Regional Medical Center), the local government realized that a
hospital, owned and managed by the city should be built in order to
address health problems in the area. As an aftermath of a series of
consultation between the executive and the legislative, the
groundbreaking ceremony took place on the same day.
Local officials headed
by Mayor Reynaldo Uy and the Sanggunian signified their signatures in
the testament – a commitment of the city government and the first
congressional district of Samar, to provide accessible health care
service to the constituents as one of the flagship projects of the
Tri-District Development Program of the city.
