It's Service Over Self-Importance
The Issue: For government employees, your role is service to the NMI Community, no more, no less!
Our View: Room for improvement in this area merits immediate review by government managers.
The parade of complaints from people at the village level of being rendered the usual dish of arrogance by government employees in various agencies is has reached epidemic proportions.
There’s a sense of forced helplessness in their tired faces who feel they really do not deserve the bureaucratic beating from various agencies in our local government.
Yes, these people may be ignorant of laws and regulations in the books and their requirements for, i.e., a building permit, among other strangling statutory mandates. Definitely, department and agency employees need to learn how to approach this issue with courtesy.
To brave interpreting the requirements of laws and regulations only to slam them against prospective small business people, or even against those who had to build family dwellings, is to demonstrate arrogance at its worst. It’s known as “blockers” rather than “facilitators” of public service.
Given the huge drop in revenue generation, the local government needs the help of new entrepreneurs to meet the ballooning requirements for more public funds for public services. If you will, any form of positive revenue generation coming from small businesses could even pay a portion of your salaries. Therefore, you must courteously roll out the carpet for Mr. Public so that you don’t work yourself out of a job.
Government employees must come to grips with the fact that it is from private sector taxes that you enable you to bring home the bacon. Unless revenue generation returns to a healthy level, your job may be at stake when pennies, nickels and dimes from small businesses take a turn for the worse because you have been a juvenile in your fiduciary duties.
In fact, all must take proactive attitude to encouraging revenue generation, especially in cases where our people have taken it upon themselves to improve their livelihood without relying on the public coffers. This is the time when all must join hands and march together in unison to rebuild our economy now at the brink of total meltdown. Si Yuus Maase`!
