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FILADELFO AUTENTICO GARCIA
THE DEVELOPMENT-ORIENTED LEADER-ENTREPRENEUR (Revised and updated)

Engineer Filadelfo Autentico Garcia has served three consecutive terms as the Local Chief Executive of the Local Government Unit of Trinidad, Bohol. His nine years in service provided a very significant contribution to the economic, political, and socio-cultural development of his constituents. As the highest official of the municipality, Engr. Garcia carries the task of emancipating his people from the bondage of poverty. To address the pressing needs and challenges, Mayor Garcia envisions that Trinidad will be an industrialized municipality, founded on agro-based development, creating an atmosphere of diverse opportunities for employment and livelihood projects, thus, increasing the purchasing power of its people and subsequently transforming the locality into a self-reliant community under a wholesome environment of peace capable of delivering basic services to its people.

To achieve the above vision, Mayor Garcia developed and maintains capability building activities encouraging the active participation of all sectors of the community. As an initial step in obtaining support and motivating the inhabitants to agricultural reforms, he created an Agricultural Development Committee to conduct baseline surveys which will be used as stepping boards for economic, political and socio-cultural development, and the Municipal Planning Development Council for an agricultural production development program designed to address or reduce poverty plaguing the municipality.

After establishing the program, Mayor Garcia established the 5.6 hectares Agricultural Demonstration Farm showcasing new technologies for farmers to adopt in their own farm, and the Natural Resources Management (NRM) office, which handles the reforestation activities involving 340 hectares, and supports the following income generating projects: talaba culture, king crab production, swine dispersal, carabao dispersal, and improved native chicken raising.

In response to the pressing demands of landless farmers, Mayor Garcia strongly supported the program of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) where alienable and disposable land were awarded to qualified beneficiaries. The Infrastructure Support Program of Trinidad includes a Municipal Training Center where advanced farming technologies are provided to ensure increased and sustainable farm income. He organized the farmers into associations, established Farmer’s Field School, and linkages and partnership with other related organizations and government agencies.

The peace and order situation of Trinidad has been observed to improve especially in relation to juvenile delinquency. With the increase in farming activities, members of the households are kept busy in farm production.

People empowerment is on top of his agenda. Presently there are eighteen (18) active organizations and cooperatives that benefit the community. The farmers’ organizations directly participated in local governance through their membership and active participation in the different local special bodies both in the barangay and municipal levels.

Because of his inspired leadership Trinidad has been among the top 3 (consistently from 1995-2002) in Clean and Green/Gawad Pangulo sa Kapaligiran Program. Trinidad won the Galing Pook Award as the Most Outstanding Municipality in the field of agriculture (2002), and Mayor Garcia was awarded Most Outstanding Local Chief Executive, as recipient of BIARSP Projects and ARC Programs.

Filadelfo Autentico Garcia was born in Trinidad, Bohol on September 2, 1955. His father, Alberto Garcia, a businessman, hailed from Talibon; while his mother Vicenta Autentico is a native of Trinidad. He is married to Consuelo Garcia, a businesswoman. They are blessed with three children: 26-year old Adelin, a BSA graduate of USC now an immigrant in California; Adel finished BSCS at USJR, and is now also based in California; and Andy, a USC AB-Political Science student and SK Federated Chairman of Trinidad.

Adel started his studies at Trinidad Elementary School (1963-64), and proceeded to Don Bosco Technical School, Cebu City (1969-73). He took a course in Mechanical Engineering at the University of San Carlos and passed the Board in 1978. His other eligibilities include four examinations given by the Board of Marine Engineers: 4th Engineer in 1981, 3rd Engineer in 1983, 2nd Engineer in 1985, and Chief Engineer in 1969.

Mayor Garcia has been actively participating in seminars, forums, workshops, and trainings all over the country, most especially those that involved the development of his municipality. Among them are on drug abuse prevention, soap making, prawn farming, fiber glass making, tourism, effective local governance, value formation, and local administration development programs. He has also represented the country in conferences abroad. His first was in 1996 when he joined a select group for an Agro-Industrial Observation Tour in Taiwan. He went to Beijing, China in 1997 for the same reason. That same year he went to Japan for a Tourism Observation Tour. The following year he was a part of an Agro-Investment Tour in Sydney, Australia. Last year he again went to Taiwan in another Agro-Industrial Tour.

His first job was as a Machinist in Don Bosco Technical School in 1973. From 1979 up to the present he has been calling the shots in various firms: Operation and Maintenance Manager of VG Shipping Lines; Manager of F. Garcia Milling; President, Trinidad Junior College; Director, BOHECO; Manager, Adel’s Construction; Manager, Cebu-based Garcia Marine Works; Manager, Subaru Lines, Inc., also based in Cebu City; Manager, Trinidad Ice Plant and Cold Storage; President, Alberto Garcia Foundation, Inc.; and the present Vice President of Bohol Federation of Mango Growers, Inc. This versatility is one of the reasons he has been pinpointed to represent the Mayors in the Bohol Investment Board. But the biggest challenge of his career is as the Chief Executive of Trinidad, a post he has been holding with excellence since 1995.

His success as an entrepreneur is non-debatable, and he could have plunged himself deep into his personal concerns; but the call for public service cannot be ignored. He takes it upon himself to utilize his skills to improve the quality of life of the people through sound and sustainable natural resource management. Mayor Filadelfo Garcia is product-oriented, and his aggressive leadership has earned him the respect of his peers and subordinates.

Today, he is again being called to SERVE and he is coming back to be the Mayor of Trinidad. His brand of service is what everybody needs.

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