SITIO SERVICES. Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Rolando Uy (center) officiates at a mass wedding ceremony in one of the barangays in the city in December last year. Uy on Thursday (Jan. 4, 2024) pledged to further visit and provide services to the sitios within barangays in 2024 to meet comprehensive coverage. (PNA file photo by Nef Luczon)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The city government this year will broaden its services to the "sitios" within the barangays here, an official said Thursday.
In a statement, Mayor Rolando Uy said that after conducting free social services in the majority of the city's 80 barangays in the past year, he looks forward to revamping the city government’s outreach program for the city’s inner sitios or sub-villages.
"I will meet with our City Hall department managers to discuss our (outreach) program during our upcoming management committee meeting to find ways on how to reach out and serve the innermost sitios of our barangays," he said.
Uy said they would conduct repeated visits to sitios that they believe need basic government services the most, especially those with limited access to social services.
Aside from providing free medical and dental services, the outreach program will also distribute PhilHealth cards, and process licenses, documentary requirements, and even lot titles, he said.
Uy will officiate the weekly "Kasalan Ng Bayan" or mass wedding during the upcoming sitio visits, having administered civil weddings to 3,000 couples over the past year.
He said each couple would also receive a roasted pig, a bottle of wine, and wedding gifts from the city government as those wedded by him last year. (PNA)
