ORDINANCE NO: 1998-149
AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE CITY ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES OFFICE, DEFINING ITS PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE, SCOPE AND COVERAGE, ADMINISTRATIVE SUPERVISION, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, COMPOSITION, WORKS AND FUNCTIONS AND PROVIDING FUND FOR ITS OPERATIONS AND SERVICES TO THE PEOPLE OF PAGADIAN.
Be it ordained by the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Pagadian City in session assembled that:
SECTION 1. Title. - This Ordinance shall be known and referred to as the "Environment and Natural Resources Division under the Office of the City Mayor".
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. - Cognizant of the profound impact of man's activities on the components of the environment particularly the effect of increasing population, resources exploitative development, and industrial advancement, and recognizing the critical importance of protecting and maintaining the natural environment for sustained economic activity and quality life specifically the areas affecting the existence and maintenance of the active communities (e.g. the upland, lowland agri, urban, industrial, commercial, riverine and coastal), and adhering to the policy of the state for the Filipino people on sound environment and sustained living, and to effect the local initiatives of the Philippine Agenda, it is hereby declared the policy of the City Government of Pagadian to secure to its constituents of present and future generations the enhancement of environment and natural resources through a local Environment and Natural Resource Development Management Sector as provided for in the Local Government Code, and all time essential. It is hereby recognized that this body distinct in its service structure shall devote its work to its inseparable twin purpose, sound environment and improved economy. To this end, there is hereby established a City Environment and Natural Resources Office which shall recommend policy reforms and development reorientation to the City Council, and give technical advice to the City Chief Executive in the maintenance of ecosystem dynamics, utilization, development and management of environment and natural resources to attain sound economic progress.
SECTION 3. Goal, Purpose and Objectives.
The Goal: Mutual treatment of the environment and economy: Set the mind of Pagadian constituents towards Sustainable Development.
The Purpose: The City Environment and Natural Resources Office provided in this ordinance intend to safeguard the Pagadian environment from destructive activities and move to repair whatever are the present damage and disorder. It is designed to redirect local development and economic policies to be pro-environment & pro-sustainable development. It intends to alleviate economic difficulties by supporting remedies tying the economy to the environment. It intends to develop, gather and access environmentally friendly technologies and information, and engage in theses/statements production as policy bases, adopting the same in Pagadian. It is directly engaged in the breaking of resource mismanagement and poverty vortex in Pagadian. Indeed, it served to answer on how far population and development plans are consistent with the prudent use of resources, and do not bring about the degradation of our environment. It intends to put all economic entities at the up support of environmental resources and not to let fall and crushed by them. It shall be the venue of framing environmental, economic and development related policies which the Sangguniang Panlungsod shall approve and the Local Executive shall implement. At the supervision of the Chief Executive, it shall implement related programs and projects the City Council provides. By its coordinative functions it shall update all concerned bodies on the environmental and economic mutuality situation of Pagadian. It shall implement community development measures on model base at the beginning and support expansion through community base system in reference to economic and environmental viability.
The Objectives:
Integrate environmental considerations in development planning and decision-making to approach a true economic progress.
Realization of environmental economic rent from natural resources (proper pricing of all natural resources used by the civilization to include wood, air, water, land occupancy, quarry, minerals, biodiversity, waste produced).
Enhance property rights reform.
Establish local protected area and enhance water quantity and quality discharge.
Integrate population concerns and social development planning, and equate to the available resources.
Economic growth and stability.
Promote environmental-economic mutuality education
Strengthen citizens' participation and constituency building.
SECTION 4. Coverage and Scope. - The range of actions involved are enabling environment for plans and development reorientation, policy creation and community concordance to support redirection, and implementation of defined measures. Particularly its scope shall be but not limited to:
Environmental plan and policy development and recommendation;
Implementation of orders from the Local Legislature and Chief Executive relative to environmental and natural resources conservation, protection, utilization and allocation subject to DENR's limitations of devolved functions for LGU;
Implementation of local level environmental and natural resources development programs/projects;
Regular coordination with concerned agencies;
Represent the LGU in environmental fora programs and projects;
Development of standards on all human actuations towards the environment and natural resource, for the LGU to act and implement;
Formulate environmental economic rent standards;
Development and research on ecological toxicity standards for the LGU to act and implement;
Development of environmentally sound and economically feasible technology on resource use.
The works of the office covers research and development on five (5) environmental variables, five (5) identified ecological units, and identified critical resources in Pagadian.
The five environmental variables are:
Energy - Solar, biomass, atmospheric, geothermal, hydro, fossil,
Material - land, mineral, water, food, timber, etc.
Space - dimensional occupancy of a material and life forms.
Time - measure on span of defined events
Biodiversity - number counts of life forms
The Ecosystem or Ecological Units are:
The lowland/agricultural ecosystem
Forest/upland ecosystem
Coastal and Marine
Freshwater ecosystem
Urban ecosystem
Critical Resources:
Minerals
Biodiversity
SECTION 5. Definition of terms. - For the purpose of this ordinance and succeeding sustainable development policy formulations, the following terms are defined:
Energy - a transformable entity with the capacity of doing change/works, contributing to the development, growth and existence of the community. The constantly available and renewable energy sources are solar, biomass, atmosphere, geothermal, and hydro. The nonrenewable fuel resources are the fossil (petroleum, coal,) and radioactive materials.
Material - things that can be formed, processed and used in the development, growth and existence of ecosystem.
Space - the occupancy of a unit resource in an ecosystem or of the ecosystem itself.
Time - measure on span of defined events, activities involving the other four variables that contribute to the development, growth and existence of the ecosystem. A well-managed event per scheduled period produces the required resource of the ecosystem for the next period.
Biodiversity - number count of different life forms that help maintain the ecosystem in the principle of nutrient cycling, better understood in the food web.
Ecosystem - an assemblage of plants and animals that interact with each other and with a set of soil, water and air resources, and with base support of energy, producing a self sustaining community.
Forest/upland ecosystem - a terrestrial community predominantly of trees commonly found at some elevations of the land which role in material and energy cycle affect the existence and maintenance of downstream communities.
Lowland/agriculture ecosystem - a simplified community involving commercial inputs producing food and material goods for human consumption.
Coastal and Marine Ecosystem - communities fringing along coastal lines and extending to some distance of the sea, and tidal flats towards the inland producing food, material goods for biodiversity and human consumption.
Freshwater ecosystem - inland bodies of water (rivers, streams, lakes) that support the existence of freshwater flora and fauna.
Urban ecosystem - an area of human settlement with its livelihood centers, infrastructure and support services and biodiversity and green parks supporting dignified human living.
Protected Area - highly fragile resource, critical and biodiversity areas (forest, coastal, watersheds) guarded to be untouched because of its high environmental values and critically limited resources.
Buffer Zone - community surrounding the protected area, conditioned for sustainable socio-economic activities and environmentally friendly farming practices, who would be in the forefront in protecting and maintaining the surrounding and adjacent fragile and critical ecosystems.
Watershed - an area draining the precipitation towards a common river and discharging to the sea. Its vegetative cover, a dense forest acting as giant sponge, assures effective precipitation stocking.
Waterhead/streamhead - upper portion of watershed with identified continuous discharge of water.
Critical Waterhead - streamhead that needs immediate rehabilitation and maximum protection to prevent dry-up.
Landfills - environmentally safe areas in the urban assigned for stocking domestic and industrial waste.
Nursery - production site of forest and agroforest seedlings with infrastructure, favorable slope, available water the year round, fertile humus soil.
Waste - a by-product treated as refuse by man-controlled processes but a resource in dynamic (natural) processes.
Domestic waste - refuse produce by the households and commercial establishment to include biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials.
Agronomic waste - refuse produce in agricultural production which include biomass and chemical runoffs.
Industrial - refuse of the industrial sector produced in the manufacture of goods (manufacture or synthetic waste).
Toxicity - quantity measure of materials (bio, geo, chemically or biogeochemically produced) potentially harmful to flora and fauna.
Waste Management - treatment of refuse as a useful thing not a pollutant. Waste management concept revolves around the four R's: recovery, re-use, recycle, revitalize.
Industrial Waste Management - treatment of industrial waste into a usable and marketable by-product. This can be done by integrating processes of the by-product with the main product in the planning stage.
Agricultural Waste Management - treatment of farm waste to produce fuel and organic fertilizer.
Domestic Waste Management - treatment of Domestic waste from the source into raw usable end, that is segregating the biodegradable from the non-biodegradable enhancing there economic value in recycling concept.
Pollutant - a waste causing damage/harm to the components of the ecosystem.
Critical resources - resources limited in quantity relative to the need of the population, and exploitation of which affect the material and energy balance, that even innovations would not assure continual availability, and/or sustainability.
Resource (resources) - entity utilized as input to the process of a unit system (production, activities, reactions) with resulting outputs (product & by-product) contribute to the growth, dignity and dynamics of the ecosystem.
Water harvesting paradigm - utilization model of water wherein the benefited communities set aside an economic rent of the resource and invest it for the enhancement of sponge effect, biodiversity, and the maintenance of the watershed.
Environmental Accounting (EA) - an elementary environmental study and tool emphasizing the productive role of environmental elements in the economic system. Thus, elements of the environment e.g. natural resources must be valued in the same manner as man-made assets.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) - a management tool, that is defining development risks, taking into account the implications of major development projects to the surrounding environment. This is used by Officials, Managers and affected citizens equating total benefits (profit, jobs, wealth distribution) to total environmental cost (social opposition/ dislocation, damage to natural resources to include land, water, atmosphere and biodiversity, unforeseen cost, resource depletion).
Economic Rent of Water Resource - the market price of water in cubic meter less costs of effective means of distribution and reasonable margin for profit and risks.
Environmental Degradation - the process through which an ecosystem's capacity to support a constant quality life is reduced.
Erosion - movement of soil particles due to external forces. Water erosion removes topsoil 25 times the rate it can be formed by nature.
Sustainable Development - a true development wherein progress is achieved without compromising the life-support functions of natural systems. The pursuit of higher levels of quality of life while preserving, even enhancing environmental quality. Meeting the needs of present generation without limiting the options of future to fulfill their needs. It stresses the need to view environmental protection and economic growth as mutually compatible.
Sustainable Livelihood - an economic activity that after an initial input can progress and exist continually.
Sustainable Agriculture - primary and secondary food production using land (soil) and chlorophyll which is environmentally non destructive and waste effective, passing the land to the next generation with unimpaired productive potentials.
SECTION 6. Services and Programs. The ENRO shall be responsible in the continuing activity on environmental awareness through local policy framework adoption, and work on the economic-environment theses/statements for enactment into laws by the City Council, and the implementation of set of activities that enhance economic-environmental mutuality, and the implementation of the mandates of the devolved functions per Memorandum of Agreement between the Pagadian City Government and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
For long term purpose, that is to guide the actuation of citizens to their ecosystem, foremost of the programs is the inclusion of environmental science as a needed subject from elementary, secondary and tertiary and post graduate schools. And second, for immediate relief on environmental damage, implement measures that the City Council provides, equating directly the population to available resources.
Forest and Upland Ecosystem
Empower (organize, strengthen, develop) forest & upland communities for sustainable development of their occupancy, protection and maintenance of adjacent forest area.
Establish & maintain forest & agro-forest nurseries in strategic sites.
Develop forest and agro-forest cropping systems best suited in the site that give the highest environment economic internal rate of return.
Delineate critical water heads, streamheads and protect them from any kind of human intervention except water harvesting.
Resettlement of occupants found in waterheads to the buffer areas with sustainable livelihood provisions and farm areas.
Assist the City Council in the creation of local law defining occupancy in the protected waterhead/streamhead a crime.
Enhancement of waterheads, tributaries to increase waterholding capacity thereby ensuring continuous water discharge for inputs to hillside, lowland and urban and the other ecosystems.
Figuratively, it shall ensure the protection of remaining 3000 hectares forest, the sustainable development of 1000 hectare forest buffer area and 7000 hectare upland grasslands, which constitute the upper watershed by instituting sound upland farming systems and alternative livelihood through a viable Community Based Resource Management system.
b. Lowland/Agricultural ecosystem.
Through the and in close coordination with agricultural community (the City Agriculture Office, the farmers' organization or/and individual), the ENRO shall:
Promote on-site and off-site water and soil conservation measure as key towards naturally enhanced and sustainable farm productivity.
Identify, establish, and maintain strategic locations of biodiversity areas as sources of organic mass and agri-useful flora and fauna.
Initiate the development and promotion of integrated technology on farm waste utilization - Farm Waste Management.
Promote organic farming with fractional and to minimum commercial inputs.
Promote water resource valuation in all irrigated fields, as a mean to fund the enhancement, rehabilitation, maintenance & protection of contributing waterheads and the entire watershed and as a direct measure in conserving water resource through a viable Community Based Resource Management System.
Promote crop diversification in a pattern that would optimally use the five environmental variables to parallel the close nutrient cycle of the natural system.
Promote the harnessing of nature's energy to power farm production and downline product processing using available environmentally friendly technology.
Figuratively, it shall ensure the sustainable development of 6000 hectares sloping corn area, 4000 hectares rice paddies, and 8000 hectares sloping coconut area by employing available environmentally friendly technology.
Control, regulate land conversion that threatens food security of the population.
Coastal and Marine Ecosystem
In coordination with the DENR and Agriculture, implement community based systems on marine and coastal resources management, development & protection: coral reef, mangrove, sea grass, and swampland.
Monitor fishpond production procedure and help pass city ordinance banning the use of toxic chemical and other destructive media in clearing ponds of unwanted species.
Establish monitoring unit on coastal and marine pollution and provide means of control and penalty on the source through a local ordinance.
Endorsed to the City Council for enactment and approval the mechanism on equity in access to coastal and marine resources.
Figuratively, ensure the sustainable development of 135 hectares remaining mangrove, 12000 hectares marine and coastal area, and monitoring and regulation of fishpond activities to conform production and management at the acceptable environmental standard.
Freshwater Ecosystem
Through this ordinance, policy framework for the sustainable use of freshwater ecosystem in Pagadian will be institutionalized, water as a critical resource will be assessed, development plan/activities in areas affecting freshwater ecosystem will be harmonized, through Community Based water management systems.
Conduct study on the carrying capacity of waterbodies sources and of streams/rivers, and investigate economic significance of water discharge relative to lowland and hillsides, urban commercial & industrial areas, the coastal and marine areas.
Identify and Inventory of watershed, streamheads (waterheads), and other sources of potable water.
Operationalization of freshwater ecosystem management approach.
Integrate development of water resources with the conservation of ecosystems that affect the water cycle.
Restore degraded freshwater sources and ecosystem.
Inclusion of the cost and benefits of protecting watershed, forests, riverines and other key ecosystem in irrigation and other water supply project.
Protect the interspace of waterbodies and land by employing the buffer zone concept.
Adopt an ecosystem management approach in the protection and management of water resources and freshwater ecosystems.
Protect freshwater living species by endorsing to the City Council a local ordinance defining waterbody poisoning a crime imposing heavy punishment thereon.
Conduct monitoring and surveillance of water resources and water channels receiving wastes.
Pass resolution for the City Council to enact to support, in any means, water resource conservation and development.
Investigate water table structure, stocking and recharging potential, and assessed its sustained economic significance
Ensure the sustainable development of the 30 kilometer river body length by establishing riverline buffer, and quarry development regulation.
Urban Ecosystem - The ENRO shall supplement activities of concerned LGU branches and other concerned agencies in the enhancement of the urban environment and economy.
Promote human development and capacity building for urban ecosystem administration approaching Community Based Management system.
In coordination with the Office of the City General Services promote the establishment and maintenance of urban forestry at five hectares per hundred thousand population with fund requirement approved by the City Council.
Endorse to the City Council for enactment the inclusion of Urban Environment accounting as a required subject in all levels of education curricula.
Help lobby to the Department of Education Culture and Sports and to the Commission on Higher Education to include Urban Environment Accounting in the curriculum.
Conduct fora and seminars on ecological waste management, and resource treatment of refuse.
Support the establishment of organic by-product plant and promote its marketing.
Assess the market of non-biodegradable and biodegradable refuse.
Help pass, for enactment by the City Council, Anti Littering Ordinance and impose maximum penalty.
Help pass, for enactment by the City Council, an ordinance on the segregation of refuse from the source and imposing penalty.
Provide technical assistance on waste management.
Help improve human settlement management through the City Planning Office, i.e., adopt City Planning strategies to improve human settlement management.
Support DENR in their activities in air pollution control
Monitor Natural water channels for loads and recommend City Council enactment prohibiting refuse throwing in any point of the channel and ensure community action.
Figuratively, ensure the proper planning of infrastructures and support services of the 886 hectares urban area conforming environmental standards, and ensure material and energy sufficiency.
SECTION 7. Office and Sub-Offices. - The ENRO shall use the Watershed Management Unit building at City Hall Complex Pagadian City. The building and the office in totality shall be improved to serve its purpose as natural resources development and regulation center of the city, environmental development research and information center, cater Fora and Seminars on environmental enhancement and protection, environmental resolution express center of the City Council, environment-economic Executive's action center and people's center on community environmental initiative.
For effective and efficient service delivery, e.g. socio-economic, environmental and livelihood technical assistance, sub-offices shall be established strategically. The present Barangay Development Unit of Lourdes may be used as the central service center for Lourdes, La Suerte and Lison Valley; the present Barangay Development Unit of Dampalan may be used as the central service center for Dampalan and Deborok.
Other Environmental and Natural Resources Development Unit may be established with community concordance and barangay LGU endorsement to the City Council, with the related program/plan of the ENRO to the site ecosystem.
SECTION 8. Administration. - The Pagadian City Environment and Natural Resources Office shall be administered and supervised by the Office of the City Mayor. Its organizational operations, program implementation and services delivery shall be supervised by the Office Chief, the appointed Environment and Natural Resource Officer.
The Financial needs for its operation shall follow the regular budgeting, accounting and auditing procedures.
SECTION 9. Personnel Complements, Organizational Structure, Works and Functions, Quality Standard.
9.1 To carry out programs, services, and operations, personnel complements and organizational hierarchy stating positions, functions, and quality standards are stated in this section.
9.1.1 Personnel complements shall be limited to the appropriation stated in section 10.1 and determined by the Sangguniang Panlungsod accommodating first the four most necessary technical position to include a Supervising Environmental Management Specialist (SG 22), a Senior Environmental Management Specialist (SG 18), and two Environmental Management Specialists II (SG 15).
9.1.2 The ENRO may add the necessary, ideal personnel complements justified by the expanded works and potential revenue generation of environmental related laws and interventions in the five ecosystems of Pagadian. The ideal personnel complement and definite organizational structure stated as follows: Supervising Environmental Management Specialist who shall head the office termed in this ordinance; four (4) Senior Environmental Management Specialist who will head the works of the four ecosystem sections under the supervision of the division head; four (4) Environmental Management Specialist II who will assist the section heads in development planning, project proposal assessment, project monitoring and evaluation, and meet the clientele three days a week for community planning and trouble shooting, and extend technical assistance to the Environmental Management Specialist I; ten (10) environmental Management Specialist I (SG 11) who shall be the frontline environment and resource development worker and meet daily the clientele; one Draftsman II; one Clerk III; one Computer Operator II; one Driver; and one utility.
Four casual personnel may be accommodated, one for every ecosystem section. This is to augment technical and research manpower of the four ecosystem sections of the division.
Two months on the job training may be offered to nine senior students of any environmental science related courses from any universities of the country.
9.2. The Supervising Environmental Management Specialist. The Supervising Environmental Management Specialist shall be the head of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office. He shall supervise the works and operations of office as provided in this ordinance.
9.2.1 The works and functions of the Supervising Environmental Management Specialist heading the office of Environment and Natural Resources division of the City shall include section 6 of this ordinance and the following items:
- Manage and supervise the program and undertakings of the office.
- Supervise the subordinates and delegate related day to day works and operation of the division.
- Facilitate the evaluation of development undertakings, activities, projects of Pagadian constituents relative to the submitted Environmental Impact Statement.
- Monitor, evaluate programs and project vis-a-vis the targets, the assessed economic and financial situation, and initiate strategies to iron out deviations.
- Facilitate the development of working policies relative to the local environment and economy, to the national commitment for the national heritage and progress, to the international commitment of rescuing the only human home.
- Facilitate inter & intra-office coordination relative to undertakings affecting the environment and economic mutuality.
- Facilitate works stated in Section 6 of this ordinance.
- Undertake other works ordered by the City Chief Executive and provided by the City Council.
- Recommend payments of transactions within the bound of approved annual office budget and annual work and financial plan.
- Recommend to the Chief Executive private and public programs and project that adhere to the highest environmental-economic standard.
- Recommend technical advice on all environmentally sensitive issues to the Chief Executive.
- Submit, through the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, the division's consolidated environmental and economic statements for the City Council to consider for enactment.
- Submit, through the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, the division's environmental impact statements of private and public programs and projects for the City Council to consider and act.
- Prepare plans and programs and budget of the office.
- Conduct field supervision.
- Facilitate program/project development planning and implementation.
- Expedite technical services to specific ecosystem section.
- Formulate format/design on routine monitor.
- Expedite inter and intra office communication
- Facilitate the formulation of Environmental Economic Rent with the inputs from the four ecosystem sections.
9.2.2 Quality Standard:
9.2.2.1 A degree holder of related environmental and economic sciences
9.2.2.2 Five (5) years relevant experience.
9.2.2.3 Professional Board Examination Passed, or relevant thesis duly signed by the Head of Academic Affairs if eligibility is Civil Service Professional Examination only, policy papers or related environmental work programs generated.
9.2.2.4 Twenty-four (24) hours relevant training, instructions, or relevant and equivalent PostGraduate Studies.
9.3 Senior Environmental Management Specialist. The needed number of Senior Environmental Specialist is four. They shall head the four ecosystem sections of the office. They shall assist the office head in expediting office works and operations relative to their specific ecosystem section programs. They shall be responsible in the assessment of development projects, proposals at the highest respect of environmental-economic mutuality standard.
9.3.1. Works and functions of the four Senior Environmental Management Specialists:
9.3.1.a. Forest and Upland Ecosystem Section Head. The section head identified herein, a holder of item of Senior Environmental Management Specialist, shall be responsible in expediting the services and programs stated in section 6.a of this ordinance. The works and function are as follows:
- Assist the Division Head in expediting day to day operation of the office relative to the forest and upland ecosystem.
- Directly responsible in the sustainable development of the resources in forest/upland ecosystem.
- Monitor, maintain activities on forest/upland community development.
* Social responsibility preparation
* Organizational strengthening
* On-farm enhancement
* Off-farm enhancement
* Development plan preparation on community resources sustainable utilization and downstream processing and product marketing.
- Establish, maintain forest and agroforest nurseries, monitor production and demand.
- Develop technologies and sustainable systems on forest and agroforest cropping best suited in the site with the highest environmental economic internal rate of return (EERR).
- Delineate, rehabilitate, and protect critical waterheads/streamheads from any kind of human interventions except water harvesting.
- Facilitate activities in the resettlement of streamheads occupants to the buffer areas with sustainable livelihood provision.
- Monitor and evaluate forest development activities.
- Update valuation of all forest resources for guidance of the LGU on charging resource economic rent to developers.
- Scale, account wood products and monitor/regulate production relative to approve operations plan.
- Update volume demand and prices on forest resources and wood products, agroforest products, and planting stocks for guidance in production and environmental economic rent collection.
9.3.1.b. Quality Standard:
Graduate in any of the following:
- Bachelor in Environmental Science;
- Bachelor of Science in Forestry or other related Ecological and Biological Sciences.
Experiences:
- Two (2) years relevant experience.
- Professional Board Examination Passed, or relevant thesis duly signed by the Head of Academic Affairs if eligibility is Civil Service Professional Examination only.
Training:
- Twelve (12) hours relevant training, or relevant, equivalent Post Graduate Studies.
9.3.1.2 Lowland/Agri Ecosystem Section Head. The section head stated herein, a holder of item of Senior Environmental Management Specialist, shall be responsible in the expediting the services and program stated in section 6.b of this ordinance. The works and functions are as follows:
- Responsible in redirecting agricultural practices, from monocropping to diversified cropping pattern; from synthetic to organic natural inputs; from intensive toxic chemical dosage to green & foodweb safe pest and disease control; from system destructive to system dynamics.
- Prepare a model ecological agricultural systems, at a package, for adoption by individual and organization of farmers (package would mean Sustainable Agriculture development with inputs provision at cycle mode or seedfund type not dole-out).
- Prepare sustainable livelihood projects which are waste effective for implementation by enterprising individual or organizations.
- Prepare thesis on sustainable agriculture systems emphasizing environmental economic internal rate of return.
- Prepare thesis on development assistance (loan system or cost and benefit sharing agreement), from diversified agricultural cropping to agro-industrial activities, for the City Council to enact/provide, or enhance any recent related program.
- Prepare thesis on strengthening market of local agricultural products for the city council to enact.
- Initiate social preparation works relative to enterprise activities both individual and collective.
- Prepare policy ordinances that the City Council will enact, for the education of the farmers, and other related segment of the society, to respond to the need for environmental resource economic rent to fund the maintenance of environment, enhance resources, services delivery and sustainable investment expansion program to the needy segment of the society.
- Prepare ordinances on environment economic rent of resources that the City Council may enact into local law.
- Evaluate farmers packaged projects and recommend release of fund assistance by the City Chief Executive through the Finance Committee of the Natural Resource Protection and Marginal Land Development Fund.
- Responsible in the review of Sustainable Agriculture packages generated in the field by the individual or farmers' organizations with the assigned field personnel and Sustainable Agriculture technicians.
- Assists the office head in the preparation of Sustainable Agriculture related policy legislation.
- Responsible in the preparation of the design on implementation management of Sustainable Agriculture prototypes, supervision and monitoring of development packages implemented by the clientele.
- Guide the Sustainable Agriculture technicians in troubleshooting problems meet in the implementation of Sustainable Agriculture packages, and facilitate the designing of rescue modules at cost and benefit sharing mode with the clientele and the fund sponsor.
- Assist the office head in the policy formulation with the inclusion of determinant data.
- Conduct research on determinant factors of specific needs as inputs to policy, resolution and ordinance formulation.
9.3.1.2.b. Quality Standard:
Graduate in any of the following:
- Bachelor in Environmental Science.
- Bachelor of Science in Forestry.
- Bachelor of Science in Agriculture or in other related Ecological and Biological Sciences.
Experience:
- Two (2) years relevant experience.
- Professional Board Examination Passed, or relevant thesis duly signed by the Head of Academic Affairs if eligibility is Civil Service Professional Examination only.
Training:
- Twelve (12) hours relevant training, or relevant, equivalent PostGraduate Studies.
9.3.1.3 Urban Ecosystem Section Head. The section head stated herein, a holder of item on Senior Environmental Management Specialist shall be responsible in expediting services and programs stated in Section 6.e.
9.3.1.3.a. Works
- Work on the promotion of human development and capacity building for urban ecosystem administration.
- In coordination with the City General Services, promote the establishment and maintenance of the tree aisle, roadside tree strips.
- Prepare a statement, for the City Council to act, on the inclusion of environmental science (ES) in all level of education, and as a requirement in the curriculum.
- Conduct fora and seminars on Ecological Waste management: resource treatment of refuse.
- Help in designing, and support in the establishment of processing system for biodegradable refuse.
- Help in the designing, and support the establishment of processing system for non-biodegradable refuse.
- Design policies and programs in reducing loads in the atmosphere and water channels (particle suspension, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, CFC, toxic metal vapor, etc.)
- Work on a statement for the City Council to act on waste anti littering, refuse segregation from the source, and non loading at sensitive systems.
- Design urban development with emphasis on the management of population and human settlement (equated to available space and resources), with disaster response and pollution control system.
9.3.1.4 Freshwater, Marine and Coastal Ecosystem and Mineral Resources Section Head.
9.3.1.4.a. Function, responsibilities. The section head stated herein, a holder of item on Senior Environment Management Specialist shall be responsible in expediting services and programs stated in section 6.c and section 6.d and regulations of mineral development protecting and securing food productivity potential of the land. He shall be responsible to approach a sustainable development of freshwater, marine, coastal and mineral resources.
9.3.1.4.b. Works. Conduct a study on the carrying capacity of streams, rivers, marine areas and estimate environmental-economic significance of water discharge to the hillside, lowland, urban, industrial, commercial, and marine areas, and regulate interventions thereat.
9.3.1.4.c. Quality Standard:
Graduate in any of the following:
- Bachelor in Environmental Science.
- Bachelor of Science in Forestry.
- Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology or other related Sciences.
- Two (2) years relevant experience.
- Professional Board Examination Passed, or relevant thesis duly signed by the Head of Academic Affairs if eligibility is Civil Service Professional Examination only.
- Twelve (12) hours relevant training, or relevant, equivalent Post Graduate Studies.
9.4 Environmental Management Specialist II.
9.4.1 Function, Works. The Environmental Management Specialist II is on the front of Community Development Planning and Research. He will be the direct technical assistant of the Community in the assessment of the feasibility of their development proposals. He will help the Environmental Management Specialist I in trouble shooting individual and organizational problem of the community. He will assist his immediate superior in the planning and programming the development of the respective ecosystem he is directly assigned.
The needed number is four, one in each ecosystem.
9.4.2 Quality Standard:
Graduate in any of the following:
- Bachelor in Environmental Science.
- Bachelor of Science in Forestry.
- Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology, or other related Ecological and Biological Sciences.
- One (1) year relevant experience. Professional Board Examination Passed, or relevant thesis duly signed by the Head of Academic Affairs if eligibility is Civil Service Professional Examination only.
- Six (6) hours relevant training, or relevant paper works authored/co-authored.
9.5 Environment Management Specialist I.
Function. The Environmental Management Specialist I will be in the front for site development, and responsible in field operations, and perform, facilitate, assist the delivery of services and implementation of development programs of the Environment and Natural Resources Office. He will be the one responsible for the maturity of individual on sound resources management.
9.5.2. Works.
- Assist the immediate senior staff in the preparation of statements on environmental policy reforms stated in section six (6) of this ordinance.
- Be in the forefront of implementing the programs and services laid down in this ordinance, specifically in the social responsibility preparation, development planning, technology modeling, productivity enhancement, monitoring of community based interventions with reference on resources sustainability.
9.5.3.a The ideal number needed is ten (10) with the following distribution:
Forest/Upland Ecosystem, 3 ;
Lowland/agri ecosystem, 3 ;
Urban Ecosystem, 1 ;
Freshwater Ecosystem 1
Marine and Coastal Ecosystem, 1
Mineral Resources Development, 1
9.5.3.b Quality Standard:
Graduate in any of the following:
- Bachelor in Environmental Science.
- Bachelor of Science in Forestry.
- Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology, or other related Ecological and Biological Sciences.
- One (1) year relevant experience.
- Professional Board Examination Passed, or relevant thesis duly signed by the Head of Academic Affairs if eligibility is Civil Service Professional Examination only.
- Relevant training optional.
- Paper works authored.
9.6 Clerk III. A Clerk is necessary in the office to respond on all the clerical works due to voluminous activities and expanse of operation.
Quality Standard:
- Bachelor of Science relevant to the job.
- Three years experience in clerical works.
- First grade Civil Service Professional
9.7 Draftsman II. A Draftsman is necessary in the mapping and information illustration activities of the office.
Quality Standard:
- Bachelor of Science relevant to the job.
- Three years experience in clerical works.
- First grade Civil Service Professional
9.8 Computer Operator II. Computer Operator is needed and shall be responsible in the control of data, electronic safekeeping and production of all significant data relative to environmental protection and economic development, train the technical work force in word processing programs to enhance individual potentials and productivity on research and policy studies, development, documentation and monitoring.
Quality Standard:
- Bachelor of Science relevant to the job
- Two years experience
- Second grade Civil Service Professional
9.9 Driver. A driver is needed which shall be responsible in the operation handling and maintenance of the vehicles of the office.
9.10 Utility. A Utility staff is needed which shall be responsible in the order, sanitation and cleanliness in the office and carry out non-technical routinary works.
SECTION 10. Funding the City Environment and Natural Resources Office, its Programs, Services and Operations.
10.1 Local Appropriation.
10.1.1. The City Council shall appropriate an annual nine hundred thousand (900,000) pesos for office operations, needs and personal services. Corresponding annual increase shall be determined by the council based on the increased annual proposed budget submitted by the office.
10.1.2 The ENRO shall access fund assistance from other sources.
10.2 Fund Sources Defined
10.2.1 Internal Revenue Allotment and City Income.
10.2.1.1 Internal Revenue Allotment is the City's share of national income base on the economic elements and plans. The City Council may appropriate funds for the operations and investment program on environment and economic mutuality based on the categories of internal revenue allotment.
10.2.1.2 Local income is the revenue generated from City's administered business establishment, regulation and taxation program.
10.2.2 External Assistance are funds accessed to other agencies with environment and social investment programs, local or foreign. These include grants, endowments, and donations, loans and production sharing.
10.2.3 Congress Legislation is appropriating national funds for the local program through the study, deliberation and approval in the house of Senate and Representatives. Programs, Projects, Plans with multi-dimensional implications and needing huge money beyond the internal revenue allotment yardstick, can be endorsed by the City Council and City Mayor to the Congress or appropriate office of the Department of Finance of our state. Congress appropriation which shall be released through the Department of Budget and Management shall be deposited in the City Trust Fund, the Natural Resources Protection and Marginal Land Development Fund.
10.2.4 Capital Payment is money returned by the program clientele to the trust fund on the sustainability year of his development activities. This fund can be reinvested in the program.
10.2.5 Environmental income is the earning derived from the implementation of the adopted policies on environmental- economic mutuality program of Pagadian LGU and its constituents. This fund can be reinvested in the program.
10.2.5.1 Interest income is the earning of the program interventions at three and a half percent (3.5 %) interest rate per annum paid along with the capital on the sustainability year.
10.2.5.2 Benefit share income is the earning of the program derived from the cost-benefit sharing development agreement with the clientele.
10.2.5.3 Environmental Economic Revenue is an earning from the implementation of the environmental economic rent (EER) adopted by the City Council and the Pagadian constituents to sustainably fund the environmental-economic mutuality program of the city. Environmental Economic Rent, EER, is the value or cost of using environmental resources by man and his economic activities.
SECTION 11. Managing the Fund of the Program.
11.1. Creation of trust fund to be administered by the City Treasurer. There shall be a trust fund created, and named as the Natural Resources Protection and Marginal Land Development Fund. The fund shall receive endowments, grants, and appropriation from the City Budget/City Council and from the Congress, capital and interest payments from the programs, environmental- economic revenue generation measures and other sources. The ENR trust fund shall be used solely to the environment- economy mutuality program.
All fund infusement to the environment-economic mutuality program shall be deposited in the City Treasury as a trust fund.
The trust fund shall be a seed fund in itself. The fund administrator should install policies to enhance the fund. The utilities, end beneficiaries and clientele should productively use the fund relative to their development plans with sustainability measures, accounting the environment and the economy, and pay back the capital with the very minimum interest rate subject to the policies set fort by the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
11.2. Plan/Program Category and Recovery Alternatives. Development plans for Environmental-Economic programs are categorized into social, critical area protection and maintenance, farm productivity enhancement and product processing and marketing, and alternative livelihood.
Costs on social and critical area development plan implementation are not payable, but can be recovered from environmental economic rent and increase tax revenue due to increase economic activity, and internal revenue generation measure to be adopted by the City Council and the Pagadian constituents. Costs on the implementation of productivity enhancement and livelihood plans are recoverable through the adoption of cost-benefit sharing and soft loan mechanisms, and the imposition of a minute environmental economic rent on the product.
As Plans attain sustainability, and the Pagadian environment and economy are mutually enhanced, the Congress and the City Government may withdraw from the growing trust fund to finance related programs in the neighboring area of the region or of the nation subject for review and approval of the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
SECTION 12. Disbursement of Fund. - Disbursement of the trust fund shall follow the standard disbursement procedure of the City Government. The signatory will be the City Treasurer, City Accountant, City Budget Officer and the City Chief Executive.
12.1. Requirements on Fund Disbursement. Fund disbursement shall proceed if the necessary requirements are met. The requirements are the feasibility study or proposal approved by the City Council, endorsement of the Barangay Council, endorsement of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office.
12.2. Requirements for Favorable Endorsement. The bases for the favorable endorsement of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office shall be the proposal's environmental and economic viability, the community based implementation mechanics, capital payment scheme, community revolving fund mechanics, and sustainability measures and reinvestment plan.
SECTION 13. The Plans on Environment-Economic Mutuality Program. There shall be three types of plans to be prepared for the program and operation guidance of the office. They shall be based on the Sustainable Development Plan of Pagadian, the local Environment-Economic Action Agenda. The Preparation of the plan shall be the responsibility of the office termed in this ordinance, presently the Watershed Management Unit, and be submitted to the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Environment and Natural Resources for deliberation schedule, and subsequent approval along with this ordinance. The plans are part and parcel of this ordinance.
13.1. The twenty-five year development plan lay down the programs and their sustained development investments on the local environment and economy within twenty-five years. The plan draws interventions in the specific ecosystem with impact creation across ecosystems. It shall be updated every five years at the active participation of the LGU Office Heads, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the private sector, environmental groups or non government organizations, business association/federation and entrepreneurs.
13.2 The five-year development plan, project the programs and sustained development investments within five years. The plan which is the key of analyzing the intervention impacts every five years shall also be the bases of the periodic updating of the twenty-five year plan.
13.3. The annual work and financial plan lay down the annual activities and components with corresponding budget. The Plan is detailed in its scope providing no room of doubts on measures and outputs, with component activities and costs grouped as to personal services, maintenance and other operating costs, and capital outlay. The preparation of the plan shall be referred to the updated action agenda on sustainable development of Pagadian City, the Five-Year Development Plan, and the Twenty-Five Year Development Plan.
13.4. The 1999 Transition Work and Financial Plan. The 1999 Work and Financial Plan shall serve as the transition guide of Pagadian LGU in managing Local initiatives on environmental protection and sustained economic progress. The plan contain more policy creation to include responsibility assumption on the environmental management initiated and modeled by the Regional Resource Management Project of the Environment and Natural Resources Sector Adjustment Loan Program from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
SECTION 14. Sector Development, plan implementation mechanics and sustainability measures.
14.1. Community, Sector Plans and Proposals Generation. Community site development plans, sector project proposals plans and programs shall be generated through collective, community planning system. The social development component identified in the twenty-five year development plan, which shall be written detailed in the annual work and financial plan, shall be the venue of educating the sectors with resource development plan as the output. The community plan shall spell out the community based implementation mechanics with the detailed administrative structure and supervision, fund control and recovery scheme.
14.2. Community Revolving Fund. Community development plan shall spell out the necessity of generating community revolving fund at some specific percentage of the labor cost. Community Revolving Fund document, which is absolutely part of the plan, shall be a requirement to access assistance for the purpose of ensuring community ownership and responsibility, and to ascertain sustainability.
SECTION 15. Responsibility Assumption of the turned-over Regional Resource Management Project. After the seventh year implementation of the Regional Resources Management Project, the City Environment and Natural Resources Office shall assume the continuity and expansion of the modeled community based resource management concepts and systems to the neighboring barangays, the maintenance of the infrastructures and equipment, the program and administrative responsibilities of the Watershed Management Unit, and the necessary personnel cost. Memorandum of agreement shall be made between the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the City Government specifying the role and function of each party in the pursuit of sound environmental resource management and sustained economic growth, the donation of equipment by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to the Pagadian City Local Government through the City Environment and Natural Resources Office.
SECTION 16. Stabilization Schedule. The Environment-Economic stabilization program shall run 25 years. Fund infusement shall be made within these years. Capital and interest payments, benefit share shall be deposited in the Natural Resources Protection and Marginal Land Development Fund, the trust fund, and shall be reinvested to the Program. The revenue generation of the program beyond the 25th year schedule shall be treated as an income of the city and be reinvested to its constituents and to the neighboring places and watersheds with sustainability measures.
SECTION 17. Progress Report.
17.1. Monthly Report to the City Council. At the end of each month, the head of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office shall report to the City Chief Executive, for transmission to the City Council, the status of the program and other pertinent information, together with recommendations. Donor agencies shall be furnished of the report with the signature of the City Council and the City Chief Executive. Monthly monitoring system shall be installed.
17.2. Annual Report. At the end of the year, the head of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office shall prepare an annual report on the status of the program, together with other pertinent information and recommendations, for submission to the City Chief Executive, and transmission to the City Council. The same report shall be submitted by the City Council and the City Chief Executive to the Department of Finance for monitoring and assessment and to the President for transmission to Congress, and to the donor agencies. Monitoring and information system shall be installed.
SECTION 18. Separability Clause. If any part or section of this ordinance is declared unconstitutional, such declaration shall not affect the other parts or sections of this ordinance.
SECTION 19. Effectivity Clause. This ordinance shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its complete publication in local newspapers.
ENACTED AND APPROVED by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (6th City Council) on 17th Regular Session held on October 28, 1998 at the Sangguniang Panlungsod Session Hall, Pagadian City.