Bayawan City Mayor Rene Gaudiel focused on economic development, livelihood opportunities and improvement in the education sector in his second State of the City Address Wednesday at the Bayawan Integrated Complex in Villareal.
Bayawan presented a positive indication of a growing business community with the presence of commercial banks, restaurant and shopping centers, that provide employment opportunities and increase the purchasing power of the people, he added in the SOCA delivered.
Positive feedback from local business sector and outside clients had also been received on the LGU’s business one-stop shop that has issued 1,278 business permits, he said, adding there was a 36 percent increase in the total taxable assessed value in 2011, with tax collectibles of more than P27 billion that he attributed to the schedule of market values of taxable property units under Republic Act 7160.
He also said that the city’s integrated training center, inaugurated in December 2011, also provides basic services and facilities, especially as site research on agriculture, assistance to farmers, fishermen cooperatives and the transfer of technology to people’s organization.
Gaudiel also challenged the school board to identify strategies to improve the performance of the DepEd Bayawan District, which, he said, ranked very poorly among the school districts in the province.
