San Carlos gets Hall of Fame as Best Performing City in Region VI

City Mayor Gerardo P. Vlamayor, Jr. (4th from right) and former City Mayor Eugenio Jose V. Lacson (5th from right) headed the San Carlos City delegation that received the excellence awards.

For winning the Best Performing City award for the third time in a row this 2010, San Carlos City bagged the Hall of Fame in the annual Search for Excellence in Local Governance Awards sponsored by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Region VI. Aside from the Hall of Fame and Best Performing City (city category) awards for its accomplishments in 2009, the city also received the awards Excellence in Environment Management, Excellence in Social Services, Excellence in Economic Development and first runner up in Administrative Governance and in Local Legislation during the DILG Pagdayaw awards last December 20, 2010 at Sugarland Hotel, Bacolod City.

City Mayor Gerardo P. Valmayor, Jr. and former City Mayor Eugenio Jose V. Lacson received the awards together with Vice Mayor Edgar Quisumbing, SP members Rommel Debulgado, Criston Carmona and Filped Maisog, DSWD Officer Cynthia Mirande and ESWM Manager Loreto Sanchez.

Aside from plaques, the city also received cash prizes of P50,000 as best performing city, and P10,000 each for the excellence awards in the three performance areas.

San Carlos City was among five cities in Negros Occidental including Bacolod City, 2 cities in Iloilo province including Iloilo City and one city in Capiz that were evaluated by the Regional Search Committee (RSC) for the 2010 awards that covered the five areas of governance: administrative governance, social services, economic development, environmental management and local legislation. The RSC validated the city’s accomplishments last November 8, 2010.

San Carlos City won the Best Performing City of Region VI in 2008 with the awards Excellence in Social Services and Excellence in Administrative Governance, and in 2009 with the awards Excellence in Social Services, Excellence in Administrative Governance Excellence in Environmental Management and first runner up in Economic Development and in Local Legislation.

In recognition of said accomplishment, the city government rewarded last December 29, 2010 all city government employees with an achievement incentive of P10,000 each under the San Carlos Program on Awards and Incentives for Service Excellence (SACAPRAISE).