Municipal Government of Bautista, Pangasinan awarded with the Seal of Good Housekeeping

Posted on September 1, 2011 by admin

The Municipal Government of Bautista, Pangasinan was conferred with the Seal of Good Housekeeping award by the Department of the Interior and Local Government. Secretary Jesse Robredo conferred the Seal to qualified local chief executives of Region 1 in an awarding ceremony held at Oasis Hotel and Restaurant in La Union on August 3, 2011. The DILG, in its commitment to elevate the practice of good governance that values desirable development outcomes into institutional status, came up with the Seal to give recognition to local governments that accord primacy to the principles of transparency and accountability.

The criteria for the seal are:
1) Sound Fiscal Management or the absence of adverse or disclaimer COA opinion on its financial statements on the preceding year, and
2) Accountable and Transparent Governance, or compliance to Full Disclosure Policy on local budget and finances, bids and public offerings as stipulated by MC 2010-83, MC 2011-08, and sec 20 of the General Appropriations Act FY 2011.

The conferment of the Seal makes the local government eligible to access the Performance Challenge Fund to support local development initiatives. The Performance Challenge Fund for Local Government Units (PC Fund) is an incentive fund to LGUs in the form of counterpart funding to high-impact capital investment projects in the Annual Investment Program (AIP) and funded out of the 20% Local Development Fund consistent with national goals and priorities. It rationalizes national government intergovernmental transfers to LGUs, and encourages alignment of local development initiatives with national government development agenda and priorities.

The PC Fund is anchored on the Performance Based Incentive Policy which provides for an incentive framework to rationalize national government intergovernmental transfers to LGU towards improving LGU performance in governance and delivery of basic services. It seeks improvement in LGU performance by linking incentives to the achievement of a set of performance targets.The DILG initiated the PC Fund to stimulate local government to put premium on performance in order to avail themselves of financial support to jumpstart and sustain local economic development initiatives for poverty reduction in their localities.

The PC Fund aims to:
1. Recognize good governance performance particularly in the adoption of good housekeeping along the areas of governance and link with incentives and grants.
2. Encourage alignment of local development investments program with national development goals and priorities to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), boost local economic development and comply with Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 and Climate Change Adaptation Act of 2009; and 3.Assist poor LGU in developing and implementing project for local economic development and poverty reduction.

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22 LGUs learn from Dagupan City’s disaster programs

Posted on July 26, 2011 by admin

Mayors, Vice-Mayors and local government functionaries of 21 pilot local government units visited Dagupan City recently to witness the city’s Good Practice on Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Mangement (CBDRM) and its Early Warning System.

The field visit was one of the activities under the project, “Enhancing LGU Capacity on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management,” that exposed the key officials from the pilot provinces of Cagayan, Tarlac, Iloilo, Capiz, Lanao Del Norte, Davao Del Sur and Pangasinan to Dagupan City’s disaster mitigation programs. It also served as a venue to trigger LGU actions on disaster preparedness, mitigation, recovery and rehabilitation which are requirements under this project.

After a briefing on Dagupan City’s CBDRM and on the salient provisions of DRRM Law (RA10121) and Climate Change Act (RA 9729), the participants witnessed West Central School’s readiness during earthquakes and fire incidence, Barangay Pugaro’s early warning system and drill for tsunami, and Barangay Mangin’s early warning system for flooding.

One of the highlights of the two-day field visit was the signing of Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between 15 municipal mayors of the pilot LGUs and the DILG regional directors to implement the project “Mainstreaming CCA and DRRM in Local Government Systems and Processes.”

The project focuses on mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into (i) local government systems and processes, in formulating the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP), Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP), Annual Investment Plan (AIP), investment programming, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation undertaken at the local level.

Likewise, the project hopes to facilitate LGUs to come up with risk-sensitive eco-profiles, multi-hazard map and DRRM/CCA tools available to LGUs and institutions with capability on map overlay analysis and DRRM/CCA-compliant CLUPs and CDPs.

The pilot LGUs are Bayambang, Bautista and San Carlos City of Pangasinan Province, Iguig, Solana, Penablanca and Tuguegarao City of Cagayan Province, Gerona, Cpapas and Tarlac City of Tarlac Province, Roxas City, Sapian and Sigma of Capiz Province, Igbaras, Alimodian and Tubungan of Iloilo Province, Lala, Kapatagan and Sultan Naga Dimaporo of Lanao Del Norte, and Sta. Cruz, Matanao and Bansalan of Davao Del Sur.

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History

Posted on March 16, 2011 by admin

Bautista and its founding years.

It was published in the Boletin Eclesiastico de Filipinas, that the Dominicans founded one town after another in Pangasinan, laboring under great difficulty, but pushing onwards with great zeal and persistence. Binalatongan (today the City of San Carlos) in 1588, Calasiao in 1588, Mangaldan in 1600, Manaoag in 1608, Lingayen in 1614, Dagupan in 1614, TELBANG (NOW BAUTISTA) in 1614.

Rosario Cortez however presented in her book, PANGASINAN, 1901-1986: A Political, Socio Economic and Cultural History, that at the end of Spanish Regime in 1898, Pangasinan had a total of 29 town parishes. But it will be noted that at the Dagupan Assembly on February 16, 1901, there were delegations from 32 localities. The additional delegations came from Bautista, Sto. Tomas and Villanueva. The town of Bautista was actually an ancient one, having been founded circa 1686, but it had deteriorated and had been placed under the Parish of Bayambang.

THE “REBIRTH OF BAUTISTA”
Indeed, history will tell Bautista experienced a very dynamic evolution and it stood with enduring prides as one of the most progressive barangays of Bayambang. Most of the rich hacienderos, merchants and influential people were residents of Bautista. It became the center of communication, trade and commerce, as well as education. Considering these assets, Bautista truly distinguished itself and rightfully claimed its status as a municipality in the year 1900. This marked the “Rebirth of Bautista.”

It appears that with the separation of Church and State under the Americans, Bautista was accorded an independent existence by the American Military authorities.

Don Ramon Reynado, one of the founders of the town in the year 1900 became the first town executive. Among the other prominent citizens who were considered founders of the town were: Guillermo Agcaoile, Francisco Gonzales, Felipe Ramos, Dionisio Galvan, Teodoro Carungay, Claudio and Antonio Galsim, Marciano Guzman, Nicolas Galsim, Marcelino Villanueva and Eleno Cayabyab.

THE MELTING POT
Hacienderos and merchants called this town then “mercancia” for this was the place where cargoes bound for Camiling, Tarlac were loaded and unloaded. The merchants used small boats by the Agno River, while other by train.

The municipality was truly a melting pot, indicative of which is the diversity of people’s dialects and languanges. The residents of the town were Pangasinenses, Ilocanos, Tagalogs, Pampangos, Chinese and Spanish. The people of Nibaliw, Baluyot and Cabuaan are mostly Pangasinenses. The people of Nandacan, Villanueva, Poponto, Primicias, Artacho and Pogo are predominantly Ilocanos. Within the Poblacion, one would be able to meet a number of people with different persuasions, ideals and expression in varied dialects and languange.

It is very commendable that the people of different native tongues and also the people of foreign language and orientation had lived and are living together peacefully and harmoniously like one coming from the same trunk of family.

Basically, townfolks engage in farming. Other industries include broom making(fiber, tanobong, or midribs) dressmaking, sawali making, buro making, building construction , auto mechanics, basketry, bag making, blacksmithing, pottery, ceramics and hollow blocks making and rattan crafts.

Clay, cattle, poultry, bamboo, rattan, anahaw, abiang, fishes, sugar, basi, vinegar and coconut abound as natural resources of the town. Bautista was well known all over the towns of nearby provinces and cities as the premier watermelon, onion producing town

The period of prosperity of the town from 1907 to 1920 begun to decline with the opening of the San Quintin-Paniqui rail road line. Chineses businessmen and native merchants began to immigrate to Rosales, Tayug and San Quintin. With the immigration of these merchants to the eastern part of Pangasinan, and the experience of big flood in 1934 and 1972. Today, we simply recall that period in the history of Bautista-“ the glory that was”

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