STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS - Bacolod City

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The Office of the Building Official or OBO reported that for the year ending
June 30, 2008, private construction aggregated P1.3 billion with 846 building
permits issued. On these private construction projects, the city was able to
collect P20 million in regulatory fees and zoning clearance fees, up by 10.5%
over that of the immediately preceding 12 months.
We would like to recognize the officials and staff of the OBO for looking
after the needs of private construction projects. An inflow of P1.3 billion into the
money stream in our city is something to crow about, and especially because, at
the rate we are going, 2008 would be the fourth consecutive year when private
construction projects will be maintained at a high level of over a billion pesos a
year. Can you imagine how much of this money circulated among our people
several times during the period to perk up our economy?
city.
This, again, is testimony to the favorable business climate prevailing in our
LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Let us now look into our efforts on livelihood development - another spur
to our economy.
In line with our thrust to improve micro-economic enterprises as part of
our anti-poverty campaign, our City Cooperative and Livelihood Development
Office or CCLDO provided financial assistance of P500K to 12 cooperatives with
1,528 beneficiaries for projects such as upholstery-making, rice trading and
retailing, micro-lending, hollow blocks making, swine fattening and water refilling.
Also in various stages of processing are funding applications worth P1.4
million of 19 other cooperatives with 2,253 beneficiaries for projects such as
vulcanizing, egg production, swine dispersal, vermi-culture, water refilling and
purifying.
53 entrepreneurial skills training sessions were also conducted for various
barangays on soap-making, meat processing, fashion jewelry and accessories
production, hair-cutting, mask-making, etc.
Orientation seminars on how to organize cooperatives were also done for
30 potential groups with a total of 900 members. Various seminars on how to
manage cooperatives were also given. CCLDO also provided their services to
other agencies involved in livelihood development and skills training.