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Dipolog City Mayor Evelyn Uy addresses city all participants before their project assessments.
DIPOLOG CITY –Inside Dipolog’s city hall, there are 117 project teams referred to as “vision aligned circles” (VACS) committed to helping the city realize its vision of becoming the Philippine South’s centre for outdoor sports by 2020. One of the collective goals of Dipolog’s VACS is to display economic improvement in order to attract public-private partnerships to complete the construction of new sports facilities that will in turn increase income opportunities for locals.
In January, all 117 VACS presented on their progress before Dipolog’s leadership team, as well as representatives from the Civil Service Commission and the academe. They were assessed based on systems they were able to put in place and on whether they were able to achieve targets set the previous year.
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Clockwise from top: Outstanding products such as squash noodles and cassava chips created by city hall project teams called “VACS” prepared for commercial display during the Zamboanga Peninsula Expo in October 2014.
Of those who presented, a total of 18 VACS were given awards for “superior performance”, while 54 were rated “praiseworthy”. They were awarded plaques and certificates at a ceremony held at the Dipolog Boulevard Function Hall on 23 January 2015.
One initiative that received a superior performance rating was “Dipolog’s Best”, whose goal is it increase local community participation in marketing prime delicacies such as bottled sardines, cassava chips, and other native products. The VAC behind Dipolog’s Best intends to get 8 DOLE-registered associations to help produce these goods by the end of the year and to allow low-income families to take part in commercial production through the city government’s Shared Service Facilities office.
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