Taguig City Center “ Architectural design strategies and development for transparency services and transaction in City hall”
Description of the project The economic progress of the city relies on the effectiveness of the local government in fulfilling its responsibilities and duties as body of the national government in promoting the general welfare of the people. The services offered in the local government in particularly in City hall serve as starting point in order for the whole city to function. The illegal practice in local government units affects the progress of the economy of the city. Red tape is one of the most popular illegal practice of the government employees in relation to transaction of permits and license to public and private sectors. Red tape is a result of the slow and inefficient transactions and service in the local government agencies. In 2008 2008,, The The nti! nti!Red Red tape tape law is launch launched ed to stop stop this this cultur culture e of gover governme nment nt illega illegall practi practice ce.. The The act aims aims to promote promote efficien efficiency cy and transpare transparency ncy in governme government nt with regard to the manner of transacting with the public by re"uiring each agency to simplify frontline service procedures, formulate service standards to observe in every transaction and ma#e #nown these standards to the clients$citi%ens. &RT, 2008'. The transparency of the government in promoting general welfare of the people through openness in information, information, documents and activities. Transparent Transparent government government permits for the distribution of information, which in resulted to help in producing greater #nowledge, faster transaction and societal progress for the citi%en.
Projects / Case Rationale Objectives The proposal aim to improve the transaction and services at city hall to lessen the case of red tape through developments of programmatic transparency in the architectural planning and design strategies. The improvement in the architectural planning and design of the City hall helps to improve the transaction and efficiency services that may resulted to the avoidance avoidance of red tape in the processing of business permits and licensing system. There are hundreds of countries around the world competing for economic development. (hilippines as one of the developing countries around the world, the government plays a vital role in promoting its global competitiveness through encouraging business sectors to start!up in the country. In 2000, the )orld *an# starts its study in the cities of the (hilippines to find out efficiency of the city hall processing of permits and licensing system. fter four years of study, they launch the +oing *usiness 200- in the (hilippines in which it shows the ran#ing of the (hilippines in the world and sia when it comes to starting a business in the country. It also
shows the indicator used for the study of the economic competitiveness of the country in terms of /' tarting a business 2.' ealing with construction permits 1' etting electricity -' Registration of property 3' etting credit 4' (rotecting investors 5' (aying ta6es 8' Trading across borders 7' nforcing contracts and /0' Resolving insolvency. 9ost of the indicators are influence by the services offered in city hall. In 2004, they launched another tool#it for +implifying *usiness permits and :icensing ystem tool#it consist of step!by step assessments on the city hall paper processing, forms for conducting surveys and studies, Recommended strategic solution for the development of the services based of the results of the assessments and e6amples of effective applications of the *(: on different cities in the (hilippines. *(: tool#it focus on the processing of business permit, construction permit and licensing permit which is the main operation of the city hall is base. *(: concluded that there are four factors affecting the services in city hall such as rchitectural$(hysical, ;uman, Technology and &*usiness >ne stop shop' 1' Computeri%ation -' (artnership and cooperation 3' Information, education and communication and 4' Customer satisfaction.- out of the si6 factors influence the architectural planning and design strategies. uch as the *> &*usiness >ne stop shop', Computeri%ation, Information, education and communication and Customer satisfaction.
metro. The increasing demand of services to support the development of the business sectors emerge the local government of taguig to improves its services and transactions in permits in license. In the 20/-, national economic competitiveness ran#ing among the 1- th highly urbani%ed city in the (hilippines. Taguig ran# as the lowest because of its ran#ing in the economic indicator inde6. Taguig is /7 th when it comes to economic dynamism, 1- th in the government efficiency and 1-th in infrastructure. Taguig city one of the promising cities in the (hilippines. ItBs one of the youngest city in the national capital region yet itBs one of the top /0 ta6 income earner in the (hilippines as of 2007. The result of the study emerge the local government of taguig most especially the city hall of taguig to improves its services and transaction through the building of the ne! city hall of Taguig. The construction of the new city hall is the solution to increasing demand of services among the public and private sectors.
Project Practicability The relocation of the new city hall is one of the line!up pro?ect of the city government of taguig. The local government wants to have a modern city hall that !ill meet the needs of its present and future constituents. The city hall will be part of the civic centre that !ill be develop to improve the quality of services and activities for the people of taguig . The combination of the civic centre and city hall will turn up to a + City centre in which it will be the melting pot of public services and good relationship to government and the public. There is allotted budget for the city hall in 20/1 but because of the local election in that year the proposal become obsolete.
$nalysis of the situation 9y research is about efficiency of permits and licensing system in := in relation to its architectural planning will be applied to the material selection, design strategies,space planning and distribution of departments of a city hall because base on the data collected. It shows that customers satisfactory is higher in city hall in which the processing of papers are ?ust located in one building in which its more convenient and its more efficient in such a way that all related departments and offices are close to each other. The communication among related departments and offices improve the "uality of service and time. The efficiency of the transaction in the city hall is one of the provision of the anti!red tape. The illegal practice in the :=, will be avoided if there is an efficient services that will meet the satisfaction of the people and efficiency can be achieve through the transparency of government in delivering services. The role that the city hall plays a huge role for moulding the economic development of the city. This set to be the focal point of all the economic and social activity of the city. The activities and services of the city influence the people. Through%out the year this create a bond to the city soul. Creating a legacy and landmar& for the city. This proves that city hall is a representation of the infinite development" as long as the city undergo in
changes the character" services and transaction of the local government !ill be affected.
The researcher come up with the idea of infinite cycle of benefits.
