BAGUIO CITY—Concerned stakeholders will have the chance to actively participate in crafting a short, medium and long-term plan for the city’s public market and other satellite markets in the different barangays during a summit scheduled on early next month.
“Our aim is to make our public market a world-class facility. If not, at least make it presentable to the city’s domestic and foreign tourists flocking to the city,” Councilor Leandro B. Yangot Jr., chairman of the City Council Committee on Trade and Commerce and Agriculture, told Manila Standard.
The councilor said that the conduct of the summit “will allow various stakeholders to actively participate in injecting their inputs relative to the multifarious issues and concerns surrounding the public, trade and commerce industry in the city.”
Earlier, Yangot conducted a dialogue with market stakeholders as an initial move for the conduct of the summit to gather and thresh out all the concerns to make business relations in the market thriving and organized beneficial in attracting the influx of more visitors to the city.
According to him, the goal to improve and further develop the present market into an added tourist attraction thereby making it safe, drug and crime-free, clean and orderly would essentially be the focus of the sustainable development program for the city’s public market.
For starters, Yangot urged stakeholders to tap peacekeeping volunteers and officers including clean and green advocates to help in recreating Baguio’s public market as one of the city’s show window.
Yangot said that stakeholders will be presented with the various legislative proposals from the city council concerning the move to make Baguio public market as one of the city’s tourist attraction.
He explained that during the summit (scheduled to be held March 3), participants will take part in evaluating various concerns and challenges and come up with short, medium and long-term plans and solutions largely focusing on improving not only the public market but trade and commerce in the city as well.
