MANKAYAN, Benguet – The municipal government and concerned stakeholders expressed their all-out support to the proposal to divide Barangay Balili, the largest and thickly populated barangay in the municipality, into two barangays thereby increasing the number of barangays to thirteen.
Mayor Frenzel A. Ayong said the passage of the provincial ordinance dividing Barangay Balili into Balili North and Balili South is important to significantly enhance the delivery of basic services to the people, more efficient management of the divided barangays and guaranteed greater share from the resources of the municipal, provincial and national governments.
He added that residents living in the barangays that will be created from the division of barangay Balili will be assured of greater representation with concerned government agencies and the municipal government because there will be two sets of barangay officials that work for better delivery of services to their constituents.
The move to divide Barangay Balili into two barangays, Balili North and Balili South, was initiated by the barangay council which was also favourably endorsed to the provincial board by the municipal council.
Based on the data obtained from the municipal government, Balili has a land area of more than 4,000 hectares which represents 20 percent of the municipality’s and area.
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Further, Barangay Balili has a total population of over 6,000 inhabitants or more than 5 percent of the town’s overall population based on the latest census of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
Some members of the provincial board recently visited the barangay to conduct the required public consultations to solicit the insights, opinions, suggestions and recommendations of the concerned stakeholders on the proposal to divide the said barangay into two political units that will increase the town’s barangays to 13.
Under the pertinent provisions of Republic Act (RA) 716 or the Local Government Code of the Philippines, the provincial board is vested with the power to enact ordinances that will divide barangays and municipalities to create similar local governments to improve the delivery of basic services and enhance the implementation of priority development projects in the said areas.
Mayor Ayong stated that the members of the provincial board were able to listen to the plight of the residents and concerned stakeholders from the barangays that is why he is keeping his fingers crossed that the provincial board will be able to pass the required ordinance the soonest so that the division of the town’s biggest barangay will be implemented the soonest.
He pointed out that the division of Barangay Balili will contribute in the efforts of concerned government agencies and the local government to sped up the development of throne of the major producers of agricultural crops in the province as there will be more barangay officials who will be representing the two barangays that will be created in lobbying for greater share of the government’s resources.
He asserted that the people of the town’s biggest barangay will be awaiting the action of the provincial board on the pending ordinance that will enforce the division of the barangay for the sake of the welfare of the greater majority of the populace.
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