BAGUIO
CITY – The Regional Development Council and the Regional Peace and Order
Council in the Cordillera approved the nominations of aspirants for key
positions in the two regional bodies with the lapse of the term of office of
former Baguio city mayor Mauricio G. Domogan who chaired both powerful bodies.
Nominated for chairperson and
co-chairperson of the RDC-CAR were former la Trinidad Mayor Edna C. Tabanda of
Benguet and Philip Tinggonon of Abra, both from the private sector respectively
while governors Maria Jocelyn Valera Bernos of of Abra; Eleanor Bulut-Begtang,
Apayao; Melchor Diclas, Benguet; Ferdinand Tubban, Kalinga; Bonifacio Lacwasan,
Jr., Mountain Province and Mayor Benjamin B. Magalong of Baguio were also given
nominations for the same posts on the part of the local chief executives.
Earlier, Magalong was unanimously agreed
upon by the local chief executives as chairperson of the RPOC that is why his
appointment papers are now being processed by the Office of the President and
subject for release anytime.
Milagros Rimando, RDC-CAR vice
chairperson and regional director of the Cordillera office of the National
Economic Development Authority (NEDA-CAR), said nominees for RDC-CAR
chairperson and co-chairperson will be transmitted to the Office of the
President within two weeks after their nominations complete with the attached
documents from where President Rodrigo Duterte will select the next chairperson
and co-chairperson of the region’s policy-making body.
She added the Office of the President
recently released a directive to all RDC and RPOC chairpersons in the country
that both regional bodies should always conduct joint meetings as part of the
government’s efforts to synchronize the implementation of priority programs,
projects and activities geared towards the development of the different
regions.
From 2016 to the present, both the
RDC and RPOC had been conducting joint meetings in different parts of the
region to show commitment of the regional bodies in addressing issues and
concerns of local governments.
Under the present set up of the RDC, if
the appointed chairperson of the regional policy-making body will come from
local chief executives, the co-chairperson will automatically come from the
private sector and vice versa.
The RDC was created to cater to
development issues concerning the development of the different local
governments and the region as a whole while the RPOC deals with prevailing
peace and order as well as security concerns affecting the different localities
and the region as a whole.
Aside from local chief executives and
mayors of capital towns, other members of the RDC and RPOC include the regional
directors of different regional line agencies in the region, law enforcement
agencies while a portion of the membership should come from the private sector
duly accredited by local governments. -- Dexter A. See
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