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Saturday, January 01, 2005
City starts year with change
By Gingging A. Campaña
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
THE first few months of 2005 will be a period of transition for the Cebu City Government, but Acting City Administrator Francisco Fernandez hopes this will result in only a few changes in the Osmeña administration.
With the resignation of City Administrator Juan Saul Montecillo and City Traffic Operations Management (Citom) Chief Dennis Jabonero effective Dec. 31, Fernandez said he will treat the changes “as addition, not subtraction.”
“Juancho (Montecillo) really did very well and I hope to continue smoothly the things that he had implemented,” Fernandez told Sun.Star.
Montecillo has promised to help City Hall as a working consultant by spending time with the department heads, he added. Montecillo is one of the new board members of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District, along with former councilor Joy Augustus Young.
As acting city manager, Fernandez will implement policies and directives of Mayor Tomas Osmeña and the City Council, spend more time with department heads and oversee operations at City Hall.
Like Montecillo, Fernan-dez, as Osmeña’s representative, will also sit in the bids and awards committee, Citom board, Market Authority and other commissions where the city administrator is needed.
2nd year
Fernandez, 54, is a close friend and political leader of Osmeña. He was the Presidential Commission of the Urban Poor (PCUP) chief during the Aquino administration.
Fernandez, or Bimbo to friends and the urban poor, dropped out of the University of San Carlos during his second year in college to pursue community organizing.
He is the elder brother of Raymund, a writer, artist and professor in the Fine Arts Department of the University of the Philippines Cebu College.
Bimbo, a Cebuano, is married to Teresita Banaynal of Lihok Filipina Foundation.
Despite his lack of a college degree, Bimbo honed his leadership skills through special management courses in the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and Xavier University.
Before he joined the Aquino administration, Bimbo started as a community organizer in the social action center of the Cebu Archdiocesan community in 1968.
He also spent a few years forming communities in the Visayas and Mindanao.
More work
After PCUP, Bimbo joined the National Housing Mortgage and Finance Corp. as vice president of the Community Mortgage Program.
He is now president of the Pagtambayayong Foundation Inc., a nongovernment organization that works for the welfare of the urban poor, which he created in 1988.
Bimbo became active in the City Government as a consultant to Osmeña from 1992 to 1995.
He was later appointed head of the Division for Welfare of the Urban Poor last November.
Bimbo will be managing City Hall starting this month until Dara Acusar, a certified public accountant and lawyer, is ready to assume as city administrator.
(January 1, 2005 issue)
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