The municipality of San Mateo in Rizal province has proposed to establish a sisterhood relationship with Davao City to foster friendship and to share good local government unit practices.
Davao City Councilor Victorio Advincula, Jr. revealed this in his privilege speech even as he welcomed representatives from San Mateo who paid a courtesy call to members of the city council.
Chorribel M. Nakata, OIC Sangguniang Bayan Secretary of San Mateo, Rizal, said their council wanted to foster friendship with Davao City in terms of sharing good local government practices and programs.
“We believe our practices are capable enough to partner with Davao,” Nakata remarked.
She added that their council found Davao’s risk reduction management program admirable.
The representatives stayed in the city for two days for the Philippine Councilors League hosted in Davao City. Nakata shared that decided to propose the sisterhood relationship with Davao while they were already in the city to hit two birds with one stone.
“We expect more growth,” Nakata said regarding their expectations with partnering with Davao.
She said her group planned to observe and to study the law-making policies and the good governance of the city that instilled discipline among Davaoenos.
“We would also look at some policies that we may implement in our city,” she pointed out.
She said that ever since President Rodrigo Duterte, who hailed from Davao, won, almost all municipalities nationwide wanted to visit Davao to study the city’s policies.
According to Nakata, the sister cityhood Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signing would depend on both Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte and San Mateo mayor Cristina Diaz.
San Mateo is a first-class municipality that borders Quezon City and the cities of Antipolo and Marikina.
