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Mayor Carlos M Egay has been supportive to the Clean and Green Program of the province since he assumed office on July 1, 2007. His battle cry is “Buhion ang Gigaquit!”, literally meaning give life back to Gigaquit.
As clearly spelled out in its vision, Gigaquit shall become a progressive and environmentally-friendly community anchored in agriculture, marine, wine and tourism industry run by a corps of morally upright and accommodating local officials.”
To accomplish this vision, its MISSION is, “Pursue the promotion of thriving industries in Gigaquit, through active participation with different stakeholders and adoption of appropriate technology in an atmosphere of transparent governance, guided by the principles of sustainable resource management.”
His administration has initiated a lot of activities in relation to Clean and Green Program, such as the tree planting along the highway and weekly street and Doot Beach cleaning. He tapped the barangay officials and the people’s organization of the poblacion barangays for the mangrove planting along Alambique River and disseminated information for an establishment of marine protected area. He also tapped the barangay officials of all the thirteen barangays to maintain cleanliness in their respective barangays and to implement the segregation at source of their wastes to be done at households, as a jump-off point for the town’s solid waste management program in implantation of RA 9003.
He designated the Municipal Assessor to be the MENRO or the Municipal Environment and Natural Resource Officer. He also assigned to the information/education campaign (IEC) other heads of offices such as the Municipal Budget Officer, Municipal Civil Registrar, Municipal Agriculturist and the DILG Officer to go to the poblacion schools- Gigaquit Central Elementary School, Saint Augustine Institute, Gigaquit National School of Home Industries and Ipil Primary School, for the information education campaign on solid waste management to teach the pupils on how to segregate the wastes – in different trash cans labeled as 1) MALATA, 2) DI-MALATA and 3) RECYCLABLE.
There were various seminars conducted in relation to the Clean and Green and Food Security Program, such as the 1) Training on the Deputization of Fish Warden last August 4-7, 2008 which resulted to the capture of four “Liba-liba” and one dynamite fishing; 2) Training on Ecological Solid Waste Management last September 9-10, 2008; and 3) Training on Participatory Coastal Resource Assessment last September 22-26, 2008 with 26 participants from two poblacion barangays. Said training caused the creation of its municipal marine protected area. This resulted to increase of fish catch of its fisher folks from their previous catch of two to three kilos a day to five to eight kilos a day per fisher folk. It also resulted to the increase in the number of species and to the awareness of our people living on coastal areas that good management of solid waste will contribute in the sustainability of our marine resources.
Though the town has no MRF or (material recovery facility) at present, the implementation of the segregation at source in their respective households has been undertaken which resulted to minimal wastes to be thrown at the controlled dump site.
Gigaquitnons are proud to say that the municipality of Gigaquit cares for a clean and green environment to establish a healthy and happy community.
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