The private sector in Dumaguete City has been given a big role in the charting of the future of the city by Mayor Agustin Perdices who said he believes that they must participate in the running of the local government.

He said that, in the past few weeks, representatives from the academe, business, religious, media and other sectors in the community, together with government officials and personnel, had been meeting to sketch the road map of the city for the next few years.

Because of their participation, Perdices said, monitoring the implementation of the plans of the city based on the road map will be strengthened, since people outside the government who will be watching the way city employees and officials are doing their job.

"If the officials do not like this plan, they cannot just set aside it unilaterally, because the private sector that was part in making it will certainly object," Perdices said.*RA

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