A hat tip now to sanggunian bayan secretaries

Posted on November 28, 2007 - Filed Under , , |

HARD-NOSED mediamen, those who do look for news, not doleouts, are agreed that local sanggunian bayan weekly session agenda or calendars of business are now generally better read and more professionally organized and presented than say, a decade ago. I can still recall some colleagues laughing their hearts out at the flaws in grammar and sentence constructions of many a local municipal council session agenda some ten, fifteen years ago. In a number of towns, one can hardly make heads or tails of their agenda, copies of which are furnished mediamen in those days. The apparent professionalism in the outputs of sanggunian scribes or secretaries now is perhaps a result of the constant trainings and seminars that sanggunian secretaries have undergone and continue to undergo. Many of them in fact, have gone on to finish their masteral degrees, doing their best to shed off their political protégé images to become a corps of more capable, competent and career servicemen ably assisting a vice mayor and his councilors with the usual “staff work” on council business.

I have particularly noted such welcome transformation in town council agenda copies in Mangaldan, Santa Barbara, Alcala, Binmaley, Lingayen, Labrador, Malasiqui and even in faraway San Nicolas, Santa Maria, Asingan, Rosales and Tayug. This is not to mention the cities where naturally only the best and the brightest get to be sanggunian secretaries, sometimes (to the good sense of the local execs) irrespective of their political affiliations or inclinations.

Many real newsmen covering the local sessions find the minutes of the sessions churned out for public reading now comprehensive and clear, a credit to the painstaking labor of the secretaries and their stenographers or clerks who have evolved as capable assistants of public administrators in charting a local government unit’s directions and missions

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