SERVICES

1 LEGISLATIVE SERVICES

There are ten (10) members of the Local Legislative Bodies that includes the City Vice Mayor and two (2) from Sectoral Representative. These sectoral representatives were from Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) and from Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Federation.

They hold their regular session every Wednesday and conducted a total of 50 sessions, 46 regular sessions and 4 special sessions.

Among the 972 resolution passed and enacted, only 428 resolution were implemented. Out of the 74 ordinances passed and enacted, only 70 ordinances were implemented.

Among the members of the legislative bodies, three of them got 100% attendance for the whole year session, these were Hon. Gambriel L. Arguelles, Hon. Aureliano Garcia and Hon. Ely Dacalus. City Vice Mayor Hon. Rudy G. Adlaon and SP Members Hon. Melky Gian Perez and Hon. Ruperto Cagape, set a rating of 96% . Hon. Mario Arguelles got a lowest score of 42%, indicating that he only attended 11 sessions out of 26 sessions conducted.
SP Member Hon. Alan R. Dujali has the highest number of authored resolutions (100), while Hon. Timoteo Aldiano got the highest number of co-authored resolution (135)
There are five (5) meetings conducted by the Committee on Public Works and Public Market, four (4) by the Committee on Housing, Zoning and Urban Development, two (2) by the Committee on Games and Amusements, Trade and Industry, Education, Fact finding, and Barangay Affairs, while only 1 meeting was conducted by the Socio Cultural Committee. A public hearing was conducted twice by the Committee on Education and once by the Committee on Health and Social Services, on Environmental Protection, on Rules and Privileges and on Socio Cultural. The only committee that conducted investigation is the Fact-Finding Committee.

2. Social Services

2.1 Education Services and Facilities for Cities

In the year 2001, there is an increase of 6.8% for elementary in the number of classrooms, an increase, 14.9% for secondary level and no increase in the tertiary level.

2.2 Health and Sanitation Services

a. No. of Health Personnel

The Local Government Unit has a total of 28 health personnel; 1 City Health Doctor, 4 nurses, 1 dentist, 17 midwives, 2 sanitary inspector, 2 nutritionist and 1 nutrition officer. There are 280 Barangay Health Workers, 1 malaria coordinator, and 110 hilot that extended health aid to every barangay.

b. No. of Health Facilities

There are 37 health facilities available in the LGU of Panabo; 6 primary hospitals, 1 secondary hospitals, 2 tertiary hospitals,1 rural health unit/center, 18 barangay health unit, 8 clinic and 1 ambulance.

c. Nutrition

Pre-school children from 0-6 years old has a total number of 18,307. Among them, only 2,203 of which are under the 1st degree malnourished children and 472 are under the 2nd degree malnourished children. This only indicates that the percent of malnourished children has a decreased of 11% from the previous year. The Nutri-Unit Feeding Center funded by Congressional Office served 376 malnourished children and 46 of these children are under the third degree malnourished.

d. Drug Abuse Control Measure

Drug abuse information campaign is performed annually.

e. Population Control

There is a decrease of 7% in the number of registered marriages and 4% in the number of married couples of reproductive age (MCRA). 8% of the MCRAs used family planning devices; 278 used pills, 180 used condom, 74 used IUD, 18 used ligation, 29 used rhythm, 184 DMPA, and 542 used LAM.

f. Births and Deaths

Registered births have a total number of 3,033 while number of registered deaths is only 518.
Hypertension, pneumonia, PTB, Senility, Unknown Etiology, Diabetes, Congestive Health Failure, Vehicular accident, Beri-beri, pancreatitis and more are the various causes of deaths. Among these causes, hypertension got the highest percentage while Unknown Etiology has the lowest percentage of causing deaths.

g. Environmental services

The Local Government Unit of Panabo has only one garbage vehicle with 14 garbage collectors. In support to the Solid Waste Management Program of the government, there are eleven garbage dumptrucks owned by poblacion barangay.
The LGU provided six (6) hectares of land as dumpsite in Barangay New Malitbog. Some household exercised burning of waste material, dump in pit, while others are doing the composting specially in agricultural areas.

h. Sports and Recreation

The Park and Plaza of Panabo City are located just in front of the City Hall. Sports facilities like tennis, volleyball and basketball courts, multi-purpose center, sports complex/gymnasium and bowling lanes are visible within the perimeter of the City.

2.3 Housing Services

There are 27,471 households and 23,145 dwelling units established in the City. The LGU set an area for relocation site but was not awarded until this time.

2.4 Resource Conservation

The LGU in coordination with DENR, DECS and private sectors undergo a reforestation program. The actual area for this forest is 85 hectares. This area is based on Geographical Information System (DIS) computation.

3. Economic Services

The City's major crops are rice, corn, coconut, bananas, mango and vegetables that contribute largely to the annual production. There is an increase of 46% in the production of rice and 30% increase in coconuts, but banana production has the greatest input in terms of production. Out of 25,123 hectares of the land area, 19,225.86 hectares was cultivated as agricultural land.
About 3,162.09 hectares is utilized for pastured land. Livestock and poultry include chicken, swine, cattle, goat, carabao, horse, sheep and ducks. It has a total of number of 94,436.
Fishes cultured in brackish water are milkfish (bangus), catfish (heto), shrimps, tilapia and other marine fishes

The Central and Premium Market of Panabo City is much accessible for it is located along National highway. Both buildings are provided with market facilities such as water, lighting, ventilation, comfort rooms and garbage receptacles.
Fruits and vegetable sections, dry goods section, eateries, refreshments and groceries are visible in both markets. Only the wet section can be found in the premium market. Other sections like drugstore, bakeshops, beauty parlors, barbershops, banks and cooperatives are located within the perimeter of the market areas.

The common problem seen in the market is the poor storage facilities and drainage system.
There are only ten existing cottage and small-scale agri-business industries categorized as micro with capitalization of P100,000 below, cottage P100,000-1M, small 1M +10M and large 40M and above. Five (5) of them are considered micro that includes wood processing and box making, 1 cottage and 2 small from wood processing and box plant and pallet, and 2 with large category from mailing banana chips and plastic plant.

4. Infrastructure Delivery Services

4.1 Equipment Pool

Facilities and utilities available are repair and maintenance bay, shop, construction materials warehouse, water supply, electric power supply, pool lighting, communication facilities, public toilet and garbage boxes.
There are 12 equipments available in the city. These are the air compressor, 5 dumptrucks, front end loaders, motor graders, steel rollers, water trucks and backhoe loader. Concrete mixer is under repair.

4.2 Receipts and Expenditures

Receipts and expenditures from operation of Economic Enterprises has a total collectible of Twenty Eight Million Seven Hundred Eighty Thousand (P28,780,000) pesos while actual collection is Twenty Four Million Six Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Seven Pesos and forty-Two centavos (P24,625,967.42). It only indicates a collection of 85.6%.

4.3 Construction and Maintenance

The infrastructure fund budget for 2001 has amounted to One Million Four Hundred Forty Nine Thousand (P1,449,000.00) Pesos from the National Fund.

4.4 Water Supply

A total of 1,531 units under the level III existing water system is facilitated by the Panabo Water District. There are only 8 barangays with water system. Out of 12,558 households, about 11,019 households are benefited by the water system and only 1,531 households are not benefited.

For 1,740 units of water system installed in the 2001, about 9 barangays are benefited from the new installation and 209 households are benefited. The cost of installation is Three Hundred Sixteen Thousand Six Hundred (P316,600.00) Pesos only.

4.5 Irrigation (as of 2001)

There is an existing irrigation system in the City. The total potential irrigable area is 3,519 hectares while the actual irrigated area is 2,933 hectares. The total actual beneficiaries are 1,487 farmers. There are 10 irrigation projects in year 2001.

4.6 Power (as of 2001)

The City's electric power is supplied by the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC). Electricity runs uninterrupted twenty-four hours a day. Out of 40 barangays in the City of Panabo, about 37 barangays are energized by the DLPC. For the 27,225 number of household in the City, only 21,562 households are being served.