Government
Marikina City is governed by a Mayor and Vice Mayor elected to three-year terms. The Mayor is the executive head and leads the city's departments in executing the city ordinances and improving public services while the Vice Mayor heads a legislative council. Marikina named as one of the most transparent government in the Philippines. Projects and services are reflects in most areas of the city to provide a good quality of living for the residences and orderly surroundings. Every barangays has also a lone projects and providing community projects in the area as well as basic services provided for the residences. It also awarded numerous times in good governance and integrity. Marikina boasts one of the wealthiest local governments in the Philippines in terms of current assets, cash in banks, share of internal revenue allotment, gross income and gross net income.
Read more about this topic: Marikina
Famous quotes containing the word government:
“The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them.... Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.”
—Dianne Feinstein (b. 1933)