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Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Baguio City planners draft medium-term dev’t plan
A planning team of the Baguio City Government is reviewing a development agenda, which will serve as basis for the local govern-ment’s five-year medium-term development plan.
The development agen-da, culled from the output of the People’s Visioning and Planning Congress in May, contains strategies to pursue the City’s development goals that include environmental management, promotion of eco-cultural tourism, sustaining Baguio’s vision as educational center of the north, efficient local governance and improvement of the delivery of basic services.
Basis
Evelyn Lorenzo, acting secretary to Mayor Braulio Yaranon and member of the technical working group (TWG), said the development framework will also guide the City Development Council (CDC) executive committee and the Local Finance Committee in their review and verification of proposed programs, projects and activities for 2006 along with the unimplemented projects of the previous medium-term development plan.
Suitability
She said a verification process began early this month to determine the suitability of projects based on the development framework.
Projects that will be found consistent with the development goals of the City will be included in the annual investment plan for 2006, which will be submitted to the City Council for approval.
In line with its vision to ensure environmental management, local planners identified waste management, pollution control and increasing the City’s forest cover as strategies.
To promote eco-cultural tourism and tourism-related micro-enterprises, among the strategies named by planners is to rehabilitate major tourism facilities and heritage areas and establishing environmentally-sound infrastructure.
To enhance the City’s position as the educational center of the north, local planners proposed linking universities with potential employment facilities and promoting of Baguio as conference and training center.
They also proposed health and population management programs, water supply and sanitation projects. (Sun.Star Baguio/Sunnex)
(November 2, 2005 issue)
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