What Dumaguete Was and Where it is Today:

Best Practices in Local Governance

By:

William E. AblongCity Administrator/City Agriculturist

Best Practices1. Economic Governance

- City Investment Code - Business One-Stop-Shop (BOSS)

2. Environmental Governance Wastewater and Sanitation Management Waste To Food Project Plow Now Pay Later Coastal Resource Management Urban Forestry

Map of the Philippines Map of the Province of Oriental Negros

Map of Dumaguete

Brief Profile of the City of Dumaguete Total Population (2010)

 120,883 Daytime population = 300,000. (estimate)

 Urban Population (2010 NSO)  120,883

Average population Growth Rate (1990-2010)

 1.86%

 Administrative land area, sq.km.

 3,425 hectares; coastal zone 10,000 hectares

 Population density, pax/sq.km.

 34/hec. (3400/sq. km.)

 Number of households (2007)

 23,278 

 Commercial Ports (sea, air)  Sea – 2; airport – 1.Air transport –       Philippine Airlines–2 daily flights Manila/                                     Dumaguete      Cebu Pacific – 2 daily flights Manila -                                       Dumaguete      Cebu-Dumaguete - daily

Dumaguete’s rich natural resources including water, are essential for the city’s economic development.

Water resources of the city include:

1. Fresh water (river, creeks, underground water)

2. Marine (bay and coastal waters)

At Risk of ContaminationA. City’s Source of water supply

a. 15 Deep Wells operated by the Dumaguete City Water District (a govt-owned and controlled corporation)Total annual production – 5,000,000 cubic meters

b. 900 shallow wells Per capita water consumption = 140 liters per day

(0.14 cubic meters) (35 gallons per day)

At risk of land-based pollution:Coastal and marine resources

SOURCES OF WATER POLLUTION

Night time Population 120,883

Day time population 300,000

No. of households (2000) 21,000

No. of Businesses

(with 300 food establishments)

4,500

No. of Tertiary Hospitals (3) 400 beds

No. of Elementary & High Schools 17

No. of Colleges and Universities 7

Total student population 30,000

Vision

Dumaguete is a city of gentle, peace loving, self-reliant, and socially responsible citizenry living in an ecologically balanced center of sustainable development with accountable, responsive, and transparent leadership and wholistic education.

MISSION

To uplift the well-being of its people through local autonomy and maximum utilization of available resources for efficient and effective delivery of services for the common good.

City Development Goals

1. To enhance and promote the city as a center of quality education;2. To promote the city as investment destination for commerce, trade and business process outsourcing.3. To provide efficient infrastructure facilities and high level of access to basic social services and economic opportunities;4. To ensure that sectoral programs are geared towards the development of the city’s constituents.5. To provide high level of access to community services and economic opportunities.6. To ensure transparency and responsible community participation in governance.7. To sustain and maximize utilization of land and resources in a manner that will protect the environmental integrity of the city;8. To provide spatial direction in the location of settlement, agricultural production areas and protection zones that will effect rational distribution of population.

ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE

SOURCES OF REVENUES

1.Local Revenues – real property taxes; business permits and licenses fees; building permit fees; locational clearances and sub-division approval fees.

2.Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) Fund

3.Trust Funds

Budget 2015: P529 M IRA: 316M or 60% of the total budgetRevenue from local taxes: 213M or 40% of the total budget

2014: P487MIRA: 282M (58%)Revenue from local taxes: 205M (42%)

ECONOMIC GOVERNANCEBusiness Process Outsourcing (9,000 employees)

TeletecheVentus (PLDT)SPIQualfon  

Major institutions of higher learning (research  centers,  colleges,  universities,  trade schools) with a total student population of 20,000. 

Universities –           Silliman University - 1901          St. Paul’s University - 1904          Foundation University - 1948          Negros Oriental State University Colleges – ACSA Cathedral College; STI;                 Maxino College 

Connectivity facilities (telecom, internet, etc) Cruztelco, Globe,  Smart,  Bayantel with IDD and NDD; PLDTInternet cafes  

City business office  (investor  relations  office, investment promotion office) 

Office of the City Administrator (coordinates with the Negros  Oriental  Business  Development  Foundation, Inc.  and  Neg.  Or.  Chamber  of  Commerce  and Industry. )

City Investment Code (City Ordinance No. 138, s. 2009)

Grants incentives to business locators.

Business One Stop Shop (BOSS)/Negosyo Center:Average  number  of  days  to  issue  or  renew  a business license/permits

Business Permit renewal –  30 min.Property assessment – 10 minENRO – 5 min Refer  to Citizens Charter Transaction Guidebook for other services. 

Availability of amenities        Health care        Hotels        Public transport modes        Shopping Malls

Brgy. Health Centers  -  28Hotels                           – 40Groceries                     –   4 (major stores)Convention Center     –   1Robinson’s Mall, Lee Plaza, Cang’s Shopping Mall

Labor cost Minimum – P250/day

Financial services         Savings bank        Commercial banks        Rural banks        Pawnshops/lending

Commercial banks                        – 21Rural banks                                    –   9Government banks                       –   3Non-bank financing institutions -  45Credit Coops                                  – 12Pawnshops                                     -  45

ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE

Business Establishments/Investors Who Availed of City Ordinance No. 138, S. 2009Name of Firm Capitalization

/Amount of Investment

No. of Employees

Hired

No. of Years

Granted

Period Covered

Date Granted

Robinsons Land Corporation (Property Development & Commercial Complex)

P525M 500 5 April 22, 2012 - April 22, 2015

April 26, 2010

July Development Corporation (Agriculture and Real Estate Development)

145M 2,000 (Qualfon)

3 August 1, 2010 -August 1, 2013

August 1, 2010

SPI CRM, In. (Business Process Outsourcing)

69.96M 677 3 Nov. 3, 2010 - Nov. 3, 2013

Nov. 3, 2010

SPI Technologies, Inc. (BPO)

175.6M 1,073 3 Nov. 3, 2010- Nov. 3, 2013

Nov. 3, 2010

Go Hotels (Robinsons Land Corporation)

141.169M 35 3 April 1, 2012 – April 1, 2015

April 1, 2012

ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE

PERFORMANCE MONITORING

1.State of Local Governance Report - findings of the survey of the Local Governance Performance Management System (LGPMS) as conducted by the city DILG. The SLGR contains the pertinent data and careful analysis of trends and popular responses of respondents

2.Public Financial Management Assessment Tool – is a self assessment instrument designed to assists LGUs in evaluating their Public Financial Management performance

3.Dumaguete City Citizen’s Transactional Guidebook – is a tool for improving public service delivery through enhanced transparency and accountability in local governance in Dumaguete City

The population in Dumaguete City is continuing to grow. Supplying the increasing people with food constitutes a growing challenge. To make things even more difficult, while the need for food is increasing, the amount of available farmland per capita is continually shrinking. Based on the Comprehensive Land Use Plan or CLUP enacted by the City Council in 2000, 1,233 hectares has been allocated for agricultural purposes to supply the needs of the city population, however, beginning last year (2014), following the enactment of a City Ordinance by the City Council updating the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP), the remaining agricultural land of Dumaguete City has been reduced to only 675 hectares.

Dumaguete City Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment

• The vision for sustainable agriculture, coastal and fisheries management in Dumaguete City adopted after a series of workshop in 2008 is meant to see a city where every person has access to sufficient food to sustain a healthy and productive life, where malnutrition is absent, and where food originates from efficient, effective, and low-cost food systems that are compatible with sustainable use of natural resources.

• This vision initiative has the primary objective of promoting a shared vision and consensus for meeting food needs while reducing poverty and protecting the environment.

 

WASTE TO FOOD and PLOW-NO-PAY LATER

This “Waste to Food” project which emphasizes the city’s sponsorship and promotion in the use of recyclables at the City Dumpsite focuses on waste segregation and the reduction of dumped biodegradables that are converted into organic fertilizers to support the city’s “Plow-Now-Pay-Later Program” through the subsidy of farm inputs to farmer constituents which in return generates job opportunities for scavengers as they work to segregate biodegradables from the non-biodegradables.

Waste-To-Food ProjectBEFORE: January 27, 2015 - tons of garbage encroaching road

shoulders and street at Bgy. Candau-ay.

January 28, 2015 - City Mayor Manuel Teves Sagarbarria and City Administrator supervising solid waste management activities at the city dumpsite in Bgy. Candau-ay and monitoring the effect of plastic segregation and application of biological enzymes to eliminate foul odor, reduce garbage volume and transform biodegradable wastes into organic fertilizers through thermolysis composting with the enzymes.

Waste-To-Food ProjectAfter a month-long application of the biological

enzymes (January 27- February 26, 2015), monitoring results revealed the following findings and observations:

1.Lessened volume of garbage despite the dumping of 40 tons of garbage per day.

2.Eradication of foul odor at the dumpsite and surrounding vicinity.

3.Production of more MTS organic fertilizers (under the “Waste-to-Food” program) resulting from the thermolysis composting of biodegradable solid wastes through the biological enzymes. We are producing about 70 bags of organic fertilizers a day at 50 kls per bag. These are being given for free to our farmers.

4.Treatment of polluted leachate after spraying with the biological enzymes. Cleared the area from garbage for some meters away from road shoulders, street, pathwalk and drive way, thereby decongesting the area from tons of odorous garbage.

5.The cleared area was converted into road, driveway, a wide landscape and open space.

SEPTAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMRecipient:

2012 Galing Pook Award for Environment

for its best practices in innovating and implementing the city-wide Septage

Management Program in the Philippines

Dumaguete City is the first LGU to undertake the establishment of a

septage management system in the country.

Partnership between city government and water utility company with 50-50 sharing of capital and operating costs.

Institutional ArrangementJoint venture between two government entities:

1) LGU

2) GOCC through DCWDCreation of City Septage Management Authority

(CSMA)Financial Management:- Sharing of Net Income- Collection of septage fee is done by DCWD with the net

of 5% on the amount collected goes to DCWD to cover administrative expenses related to billing and collection as per MOA.

What the Ordinance Contains

• Design Standard for Septic Tanks or Onsite Collection Tank

• Septage Collection and Hauling Procedure• Operation of the Septage Treatment Facility• Imposition, Collection, and Management of Septage Fees• Penalties

RESOLUTION NO. 141, ORDINANCE NO. 18, Series of 2006, Approved: April 6, 2006

AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A SEPTAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE

CITY OF DUMAGUETE

Commercial Desludgers

(Collection Only with No Treatment)

Septage Management Ordinance

Res. No. 141, Ordinance No. 18 Series of 2006April 6, 2006

a. Residences – P3,000.00 to P10,000.00/trip

b. Commercial - + P10,000.00/trip

Ave. monthly household water consumption = 15 cu.m.

Septage user fee of 2.00/cu.m = P360/year

Total User Fee in 3 to 5 years = P1,080 to P1,800.

(US$25 to US$42)

The city’s septage fee for collection and treatment is less compared to desludging fees of commercial

desludgers.

Comparison Between Commercial Desludging Fees and City “User Fees”

Sharing of Septage “User Fee”

Sharing of Income Between City Govt. and Water District:

Gross Income:

Less: 1) O&M

2) Barangay Assistance Fund for Host Barangay

3) Reserve/Contingency

Net Income = Gross – (1+2+3)

City Govt Share = 50% of Net IncomeWater District Share = 50% of Net Income

Project Staff: Drivers and aides – (7 trucks x 3 laborers/truck) = 21 Mechanic – 1; Welder - 1 Septage Treatment Plant staff = 5

YEARLY GROSS INCOME

2010 P 6,827,818.00

2011 P13,903,114.00

2012 P14,752,489.59

2013 P15,063,778.70

2014 P15,856,817.40

TOTAL P66,404,017.15

YEARLY NET INCOME

2010 P 3,927,376.50

2011 P 5,891,300.32

2012 P 5,461,077.08

2013 P 3,285,426.12

2014 P 2,486,303.12

TOTAL P21,051,483.14

DUMAGUETE

CITY’S

SHAREP 10.53M

2014 Income

Gross Income

1st Quarter: P 3,799,104.16

2nd Quarter: P 3,996,699.93

Total Gross Income P 7,795,804.09

LESS: Expenses 6,340,745.05

Total Net Income P 1,455,059.04

Lessons learned being shared with many visitors are useful for others in the Philippines and other countries.

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Successful Septage Management System

Dumaguete City Business District (Poblacion)

All lead to Dumaguete Bay!!

Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Plant

Anaerobic Baffle Reactor

Sedimentation Tanks

Anaerobic Baffle Reactor

Planted Gravel Filter

Raw Wastewater

Effluent or Aeration tank

To sea or to plants

Process Flow of Public Market Wastewater Treatment Plant

Total Cost –P3,500,000 (US$73,000)

Public Market Wastewater Treatment Plant Dumaguete City

Anaerobic Baffle Reactor

Settling Tanks

Anaerobic Filter

Planted Gravel Filter

Gravel Filter(planted with cana)

Objective: To protect and preserve underground water.

Result

• Met BOD standards• Eliminated foul odor• Heightened

environmental awareness

Impact• Reduces health-related

expenses• Generates local employment• Efficient mgt of wastewater and

solid wastes• Economic efficiency with

healthy sanitized environment• Preserves the potential tourism

destinations• Improve business investment

competitiveness

Water Borne Disease

Level 1 CRM Certification

Benchmarks for beginning level delivery of CRM

as a basic service of LGUsFor every coastal city or municipality:

(1) Annual LGU budget allocated for CRM

(2) City or Municipal Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Management Council established and active

(3) CRM Plan drafted

(4) CRM best practices planned or initiated such as:

• CRM and fisheries ordinances implemented• Registration, licensing, and fee system established for

municipal water use• Marine sanctuaries established and functional• Mangrove areas under Community-based Forest

Management Agreements• Environment-friendly enterprises initiated• Coastal law enforcement units operational• Shoreline development monitored and regulated• Municipal water boundaries enforced• Other habitat protective/open access restrictions in place

KEY RESULT AREA/MAJOR

INTERVENTIONSTARGETTED ACTIVITIES

ACTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENT

Establishment and management of marine protected areas/marine sanctuaries

1. Marine Sanctuaries in Bgys. Banilad, Looc and Bantayan:•Maintenance of concrete sinkers, ropes and marker bouys•Enforcement of the Marine Sanctuary Ordinance by Bantay-Dagat.

2. Activities to support the proposal for a Marine Sanctuary establishment in Bgy. Mangnao:•Identification of potential site for marine protected areas at barangay Mangnao.•Consultative meetings with barangay council, fisherfolks assn. and coastal stakeholders•Conduct of bio-physical and socio-economic assessment of the proposed marine sanctuary in barangay Mangnao•Submission of resolution and ordinance to the city council.

Implemented

Conducted

Status of Coastal and Fisheries Management InterventionsAs of December 31, 2014

Status of Coastal and Fisheries Management InterventionsAs of December 31, 2014

KEY RESULT AREA/MAJOR INTERVENTIONS

TARGETTED ACTIVITIES ACTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENT

Mangrove Reforestation

Coastal Law Enforcement

1. Establishment of mangrove nursery for the production

2. Mangrove planting at barangay Banilad

3. Identification of other possible site for mangrove plantation in barangay Bantayan

1. Regular monitoring (seaborne and foot patrol) in Marine Protected Areas/Marine Sanctuaries of Bgys. Banilad, Looc, and Bantayan

2. Regular surveillance and sea borne patrol

Implemented

conducted

conducted

Conducted

conducted

FISH CATCH DATA SUMMARY OF 2014

Name of Barangays

Total No. of Fishermen

Total No. in kilograms

Total No. in metric tons

BANTAYAN 36 25,920 25.92

PIAPI 29 19,140 19.14

LOOC 17 10,200 10.2

TINAGO 23 12,420 12.42

CALINDAGAN 107 77,040 77.04

MANGNAO 26 9,360 9.36

BANILAD 78 56,160 56.16

TOTAL 316 210,240 210.24

Establishment of Marine Sanctuary in Barangay Looc

Bio-physical survey of the proposed Marine Sanctuary in Barangay Mangnao

Coral reefs in Barangay Mangnao

DATE NAME VEHICLE PLATE NO.

COMPANY/ORGANIZATION

PHONE REASON FOR VISIT IN/OUT SIGNATURE

BANILAD MARINE SANCTUARY VISITOR/GUEST LOG BOOK

Mangrove Nurserying in Bgy. Banilad

City-assisted 4-H Club members undertake mangrove enrichment planting in Bgy. Banilad

Probationers conduct regular mangrove planting and cleaning up

every third Friday of the month.

Organizing and mobilizing stakeholders for coastal clean-up in shoreline barangays.

Planting of assorted species Planting of assorted species of forest and fruit treesof forest and fruit trees

Through its urban forestry program implemented since 2002, the City has increased its forest cover from 18% in 2001 to 30% in 2014. This is

equivalent to 1,100 hectares planted and grown trees.

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