Lazatin vows quality services to Angeleños
ANGELES CITY – Opposition City Councilor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr. has vowed to work on quality basic services for the people here if given a chance to serve as city mayor.
Lazatin on Tuesday filed his Certificate of Candidacy (CoC) for Angeles City Mayor before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) office.
Lazatin led his runningmates including Vicky Vega Cabigting for vice mayor; and the candidates for councilor — Angelo “Pinggoy” Lopez; Marino “Niknok”Bañola; Rudy Simeon; Idy Marie Pamintuan; Ney Nepomuceno; Atty. Arvin “Pogs” Suller; Angelito Indiongco; and Philip Pangilinan – Samson.
Lazatin and his lineup will run under the Partido Federalismo Party (PFP). The Team Lazatin went to Angeles City Comelec office at 9:00 a.m. after attending Mass at Christ the King Parish Church in Pulung Cacutud here.
The group was greeted by supporters from various sectoral groups who waited for his arrival in Comelec.
If elected, Lazatin vowed to continue the legacy of his father, former Angeles City Mayor and First District Pampanga Congressman Carmelo “Tarzan” Lazatin.
Lazatin said his program will center on providing basic quality services to Angeleños such as improvement of public health services, education, extensive solid waste management program, and infrastructure development.
He stressed that he will strengthen rural health units to make the delivery of city health services more efficient and more accessible to the people. He also vowed to provide free medicines to all 33 barangays in the city.
“We will also improve the services of the Ospital Ning Angeles. We will see to it the return of ONA to Angeleños by making all the services readily available in the hospital,” Lazatin said. He added that he will also make sure that ONA has enough medicines available to people “so that they don’t have to buy from pharmacies outside the hospital.”
“During the term of my father, former Mayor Tarzan Lazatin, there was a lot of medicines at ONA. There was also a Mayor’s Desk open to all and not just for selected few,” Lazatin said.
Lazatin said he will push for the implementation of R.A. 9709, otherwise known as the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention Act of 2009, by establishing a Newborn Screening Center here.
Being a staunch supporter of programs for senior citizens, Lazatin also vowed to provide free mandatory annual physical examinations and other medical-related benefits for Senior Citizens of Angeles City.
Meanwhile, Lazatin said he will push for the amendment to the Charter of the City College of Angeles (CCA) that seeks to have the tuition fees of CCA students fully subsidized by the City Government to give all youth an opportunity to have a d egr ee.
Additionally, he will grant a “non-wage” benefit to all public school teachers, in the form of free tertiary education at the City College of Angeles (CCA) for one of their dependents.
“We have many plans for education including maximizing the Local School Board (LSB) for the purchase of land for additional school buildings and classrooms, hiring of more teachers, purchase of books and other school essentials,” Lazatin said.
Meanwhile, as the author of Ordinance No. 364, S2015 or the Plastic bag and Styrofoam ordinance of Angeles City, Lazatin also vowed for its strict implementation and to create a more comprehensive solid waste management program.
In terms of infrastructure development, Lazatin said he will develop and establish new secondary road networks.
“If I will be fortunate to win and my brother Congressman Carmelo “Jonjon” Lazatin II, we will build overpasses in the city to solve the traffic,” Lazatin said.