IT’S a three-way race for Cebu City vice mayor as Councilors Raymond Alvin Garcia and Franklyn Ong square off with urban poor leader and former Cebu City administrator Francisco “Bimbo” Fernandez for the role in the May 9 elections.
Name: Raymond Alvin Neri Garcia
Age: 45
Highest educational attainment:
- Bachelor of Laws, University of San Carlos
- Masters in Business Administration, University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P)
Previous work experience:
- Two-term Cebu City councilor
- Barangay councilor, Kamputhaw
- Assistant vice president and board secretary, SunStar Publishing Inc.
1. What are the three most urgent problems in Cebu City? If elected vice mayor, how would you address them?
- facilitate the Recovery of the city’s economy and the health of its people;
- aggressively enhance Education initiatives, to include the completion and operationalization of the Cebu City College and the expansion of the City’s scholarship and sports program;
- create more opportunities for Socialized housing;
- pursue Urban development that is sustainable and sensitive to environmental concerns and that does not sacrifice food security and agriculture;
- generate Livelihood opportunities;
- continue to modernize Tourism, Transportation, and Traffic Management; and,
- advance the participation and representation of civil society organizations and people’s organizations, the youth, senior citizens, persons with disabilities, cultural minorities, and the LGBT in governance.
2. How would you describe your leadership style?
3. How do you see Cebu City 10 years from now?
4. Who are your models in terms of leadership and why?
Name: Franklyn O. Ong
Age: 56
Highest educational attainment: College graduate, University of San Carlos Batch 1987
Previous work experience:
- Barangay Councilor - Barangay Kasambagan, 2010-2016
- National President - Barangay Councilors League of the Philippines, 2012-2014
- Punong Barangay - Barangay Kasambagan, 2016 to present
- Association of Barangay Councils (ABC)-Cebu City president, 2018 to present
- City Councilor, 2018 to present
1. What are the three most urgent problems in Cebu City? If elected vice mayor, how would you address them?
2. How would you describe your leadership style?
3. How do you see Cebu City 10 years from now?
4. Who are your models in terms of leadership and why?
Name: Francisco “Bimbo” Fernandez
Age: 71
Highest educational attainment: College undergraduate
Previous work experience:
- Community organizer, Cebu Archdiocesan Social Action Center
- Founder, president, Pagtambayayong Foundation
- Chairman, Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor
- Administrator, Cebu City
- Vice president, National Home Mortgage Finance Corp.
- Undersecretary, Department of the Interior and Local Government
1. What are the three most urgent problems in Cebu City? If elected vice mayor, how would you address them?
2. How would you describe your leadership style?
3. How do you see Cebu City 10 years from now?
4. Who are your models in terms of leadership and why?
