Vice Guv Vows a Productive and Responsive SP

Kalibo, Aklan- In her message to all capitol employees of the province during the flag raising ceremonies on Monday (February, 07, 2011), Aklan Vice Governor Gabrielle V. Calizo-Quimpo expressed confidence of a productive and responsive provincial legislative body with the new composition of the Aklan Sangguniang Panlalawigan for term 2010-2013.

Quimpo vowed that as regular presiding officer of the SP, the body will always work harmoniously and has a pleasant relationship with the chief executive of the province in order to attain a sustained development of Aklan.

The lady vice governor also expressed amazement of the composition of the new SP which according to her seems to represent two successive generations, the old and the young.

The first (the old) generation, she said, is composed of the veteran legislators, the Honorables Nemesio P. Neron, Daisy S. Briones, Jean O. Rodriquez, Rodson F. Mayor and the neophyte but already a seǹior citizen-president of the provincial federation of the Liga ng mga Barangay, Edina Gelito.

Quimpo further emphasized that the young generation of SP members is composed of the Hon. Jose Enrique M. Miraflores, son of former Ibajay Mayor, former Governor, and now Congressman Florencio T. Miraflores, the Hon. Victor Manuel Garcia, the son of former Ibajay Mayor, former Aklan Seǹior Board Member and former Governor Roberto A. Garcia, Sr., the Honorable Phoebe Clarice L. Cabagnot, the daughter of former two-termer Governor of Aklan, Corazon Legaspi, Cabagnot, the Hon. Jonna Morales-Torres, the young lady president of the Philippine Councilors’ League, Aklan Chapter, the Hon. Raymar A. Rebaldo, former Kalibo Mayor and a descendant of notable political leaders of Aklan, the veterans and three-termers but youthful members Selwyn C. Ibarreta and Gerick M. Templonuevo and the Aklan SP’s “Niǹo Bonito”, the Hon. Bob Augusto Legaspi, the provincial SK Federation President and a descendant of the famous Legaspi political clan.

Quimpo emphasized that the SP under her is always cooperative to every request of the Provincial Governor for legislative action on matters affecting the welfare and interest of the provincial government employees.

This is evident, she said, in the passage of the 2010 and 2011 annual budgets of the province which provide for salary increases and bonuses of the provincial government employees.