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Sunday, June 26, 2005
Environment office manned by population officers
By Edmund Sestoso
PROVINCIAL Board Member Lea Ga-Bromo has bared that the existing Environment and Natural Resources Management Division is managed and run by population experts and officers.
Ga-Bromo bared this in her privilege speech made in last Thursday's regular session.
She said the then population office at the Capitol becoming an optional office pursuant due to the enactment of the Local Government Code in 1991.
The population office then was dismantled by the Provincial Board and the employees of the defunct office were distributed among the existing offices while the population officers were assigned to the then Negros Oriental Management Office (Negormo) under the Provincial Planning and Development Office.
And then Negormo became the Resource Management Division still under the PPDO, then it has become the ERMD under the office of the governor.
To recall, the Provincial Board in year 2000, a legal structure of the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ERND) under the office of the governor which was a replacement of the executive order created ERND.
"The ERND has not been given the chance to prove and demonstrate its administrative efficiency," said Ga-Bromo.
She said prior to these observations, she was surprised by remarks of a German consultant assigned at the ERMD.
She quoted the foreign consultant as saying that it is only in this province where there are population officers handling environmental matters and that the same is not true in Bohol province.
She said it is now a proper time that these set up should be gradually corrected in order that the people can expect an effective and better service and that expertise in the particular field may be maximized by the government to its fullest for the people's sake.
(June 26, 2005 issue)
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