Mayorable Monico Puente-vella and his MONOPAL team held their "Miting de Avance" grand rally last night at the Capitol South Road teeming with close to 40,000 supporters surrounding the front and back of a makeshift stage reaching to the farthest portion of the Capitol Lagoon.
The crowd stayed even beyond 11:00 P.M. towards midnight and where screams and cheers did not waver until the last part of the program. In his message, Puentevella stressed that if elected, he will have to suspend the City’s payment of P1 Billion debt, questioned those debts in court so that savings can be had and channeled to social services. Among these services is to increase the budget for free hospitalization, expansion of the "Monico Kabuhi Ko" (MKK), and increase teachers’ Emergency Cost of Living Allowances (Ecola) contrary, he said, to some talks spread by the other camp that this will be abolished. To counter hunger, livelihood projects will be expanded through the improvement of the three major markets rather than being privatized; this includes the improvement of the vendors’ plaza which can accommodate more microentrepre-neurs, Puentevella added. Also, he said, in the area of education, a site will be chosen for Bacolod City College backed by the establishments of more day care centers and expand the City’s scholarship program. Puentevella vowed not to hold office at the "enemies’ palace" which is the Bacolod Government Center or sit at the P200 thousand worth of the Mayor’s office; instead, the Government Center will be converted to house national offices like the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) and the National Statistic Office. He will hold office at the old City Hall to make himself accessible to people from all walks of life. Supporters applauded when Puentevella announced that all Senior Citizens will not have to pay when watching movies. Puentevella was emotional while narrating that during the campaign, there were people who approached him and showed gratitude rather than ask money; these are people whose loved ones were saved by MKK. Tears fell from his eyes as he compared MKK to other social services, even as more than 16 as he managed to pass major laws, 15 Barangay Gyms, national highways he built adjudged as among the best in the country and the outer circumferential "sugar" road built at the back of Brgy. Handumanan. Puentevella announced though that before the year ends, the Bacolod Heart, Lung and Kidney Center will already be operational. Meanwhile, Archie Bari-bar, being the last to speak among the candidates for councilor, summarized his colleagues’ major programs, among them, Catalino Alis-bo’s program for senior citizens, Lorney Lyzander Dilag for barangay development program, El Cid Familiaran for free health services, Buen Gallenero for tourism, Ma. Victoria Garcia for the establishment of day care centers. Norma Juarez for education and scholarship, Bobbie Lucasan for social services, Jose Maria Regalado, Jr. for entreprenuership, Marlon Solidum for poverty alleviation, Elmer Sy for his "may consuelo and Bacolod", and Sonya Verdeflor for development of the Bacolod manufacturing sector, among others.* By Gil Alfredo B. Severino
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