BACOLOD CITY, (PNA) — The municipality of Pulupandan in southern Negros Occidental named its newly-built food stall after the late Secretary Jesse Robredo of the Dept. of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
The town honored Robredo to express its gratitude to the late official for granting Pulupandan a Seal of Good Housekeeping in 2012 under the administration of former Mayor Magdaleno Peña.
The municipal government used the P1-million Performance Challenge Fund cash incentive given by the DILG to construct the six-unit “Robredo’s Place” inside the town’s public market.
Town officials deemed it best to name the structure after Robredo since it was through his efforts that the PCF was granted to the municipality.
Robredo, a former mayor of Naga City, died in a plane crash on Aug. 18, 2012.
Mayor Miguel Peña, son of the former mayor, led the inauguration of the food stall on Sept. 18.
The rites was witnessed by DILG Negros Occidental provincial director Joy Maredith Madayag, other town officials and municipal employees.
The Seal of Good Housekeeping for local government units seeks to aggressively scale up interventions to elevate the practice of governance that values transparency, accountability, participation and performance into an institutionalized status. It recognizes LGUs with good performance in internal housekeeping.