Hon. Oscar S. Rodriguez
City Mayor

About our City Mayor
Married to Dolores Pineda Pabustan; father to Raissa & Wito Bautista, Oscar Jr., Orson & Joy (y Maglalang), Malou & Dindo Caguiat, and Omar and Dra. Analyn (y de Guzman); and grandfather to Jomo, Jami and Mara Bautista, Raffy, Luigi and Gian Marco Caguiat, and Enzo Rodriguez.

Awards and Citation
Lingkod Bayan Award – Regional Semi-finalist, September 2006
3rd Runner-Up World City Mayor, December 2005
Presidential Medal of Merit, December 2005
Most Outstanding Congressman of the Eleventh Congress, League of Press Association of the Philippines, February 7, 2001
Most Outstanding Congressman in Region III, Asusasyon ng Kumentarista at Anaunser ng Pilipinas (AKAP), January 16, 2001
Citations from the Partylist Sectoral Group AKBAYAN and the Civil Society Group of COPA, for the stellar performance in the impeachment trial of former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada
Award for Excellence and Key-note Speaker of the Far Eastern University College of Law (April 2000)
Awards and Citations for Excellence and Outstanding Achievements in Government Service from the Municipalities of Mexico, Sta. Ana and Arayat
Most Outstanding Kapampangan in Government Service (1986)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AS A PUBLIC SERVANT

EXECUTIVE BRANCH
City Mayor of San Fernando, Pampanga (July 2004 - present)
         
       Awards and Citations Received by the City Government under His Leadership

  • One of the 2010 Outstanding LGUs Implementing the Streamlining Program in the Issuance of Mayor's Permit (Regional - Jun. 2010)
  • Most Outstanding City Council of the Phils. (National – 1st place Mar. 2010 and 2nd place Mar. 2007, Regional –  1st place Jan. 2010 and Feb. 2007)
  • Best Public Employment Service Office (PESO) Award (Regional - Jan. 2010)
  • Top Real Property Tax Producer Award (National - Dec. 2009)
  • Clean and Green Award – 1st Runner Up (Provincial - Dec. 2009)
  • Most Business-Friendly Local Government Unit in North Luzon (City Category Level 1,  National - Oct. 2009 and Oct. 2006)
  • ISO 9001: 2008 Certification (International - Oct. 2009)
  • Best PESO Award – 2nd Place (National - Oct. 2009)
  • ISA Maharlika Hall of Fame Award for PGS Institutionalization (International - Sep. 2009)
  • Conferment of Institutionalized Status for PGS Implementation (International - Sep. 2009)

(PGS Proficient City - Aug. 2006, PGS Compliant City - Aug. 2006, PGS Initiated City - Feb. 2006)

  • First City Government to Comply with the Anti-Red Tape Act (Regional - Sep. 2009)
  • Presidential Citation for Best Practice in Creating a Business and Investment Enabling Environment for Implementing the Streamlining Program on the Issuance of Business Permit (National - Jul. 2009)
  • Hall of Fame Award for Outstanding Achievement as Consistent 1st Place Winner for Three Consecutive Years (2006-2008) in the implementation of Documented Streamlined Procedures on the Issuance of Mayor’s Permit (Component City Category,  Regional - Mar. 2009)
  • 2nd Best Peace and Order Council (Regional - Feb. 2009)
  • Galing Pook 2008 for Outstanding Local Governance Program: Making Governance a Shared Responsibility (National - Feb. 2009)
  • Special Citation on Local Capacity Incentive Mechanism for Local Governance (National - Feb. 2009)
  • Public Service Delivery Audit (PASADA) Award for Frontline Services (Regional - Sep. 2007)
  • Champion – First Aid and Basic Life Support Olympics (Regional - Aug. 2007 and Aug. 2006)
  • 2nd Runner Up – Nutrition Award for Best Performing City (Regional - Jul.2007)
  • Most Supportive LGU to the One Town One Product Program (Regional), Dec. 2006
  • 1st Runner Up – Best One Town One Product (OTOP) Project (Regional), Dec. 2006
  • Best Tourism Practices: Heritage Tourism Award (National), Oct. 2006
  • Most Competitive Mid-Sized City (National – 1st place Feb. 2006 and 2nd place Jan. 2004)
  • Gawad Parangal Special Award (National), Dec. 2005
  • Best Local Price Coordinating Council (Regional), Oct. 2005
  • ISO 9001:2000 Certification (International), Sep. 2005
  • Citation from Philippine Tourism Authority – Preservation of  Calesas (National), Sep. 2005  
  • Model FMD-Free Slaughterhouse Award (Regional), May 2005
  • Galing Pook Award—Trailblazing Program (National), Dec. 2004
  • Top 10 LCP Best Practices Award – Preserving Heritage for Progress (National) , Jun. 2004

Provincial Administrator, Province of Pampanga (1986 – 1987)

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

Representative, Third Congressional District of Pampanga

       Twelfth Congress (2001 to June 2004)    

  • Member, House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET)
  • President, Central Luzon Congressional Caucus (CLCC), the only official organization of all twenty representatives from the various legislative districts of Central Luzon
  • Senior Vice-Chairman, Committee on Justice
  • Senior Vice-Chairman, Committee on Bases Conversion
  • Member, Committee on Appropriations, Oversight, Good Government, Agriculture, Food & Fisheries, Ways & Means, Human Rights, Economic Affairs, Constitutional Amendments, Higher and Technical Education, Housing & Urban Development, Games & Amusements and Dangerous Drugs
  • Member and Delegate of the World Jurist Association, WJA’s Regional Stuggart Conference on “Alternative Dispute Resolution”, Germany, September 29 – October 4, 2002
  • Member of the Official Delegation headed by H.E. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to Malaysia and Thailand, May 7-8, 2002
  • Member and Delegate of World Jurist Association, WJA’s to a conference on “International Terrorism and its Implications,” Madrid, Spain, April 13 – 20, 2002
  • Delegate of the World Jurist Association to the 20th Biennial Conference, Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 29 – Oct. 6, 2001
  • The only Representative of Pampanga not to have signed the impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide
  • Principal author of over ninety house bills (ranging from human rights, revisions of laws, justice, labor and employment, health and infrastructure) and resolutions
  • Principal author of bills seeking prohibition of political dynasties, amendments to the illegal discharge of firearms; the declaration of Mt. Pinatubo as a tourist spot; the declaration of the 4th of February as Foundation Day of the City of San Fernando
  • Principal author of the Birthday Leave law
  • Principal author of Republic Act 9225, The Dual Citizenship Law providing for overseas Filipinos to participate in political processes; Republic Act 9211, The Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003 and Republic Act 9173 which seeks to strengthen the Nursing Profession in the Philippines
  • Co-author of over seventy (70) bills and resolutions
  • Co-author and endorser of the Bill converting the Pampanga Agricultural College into a University

       Eleventh Congress (1998 – 2001)

    • Member, House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (2001) Member, Committees on Agriculture and Food, Economic Affairs, Civil, Political and Human Rights, Foreign Affairs, Local Government, Tourism (1998 – 2001)
    • Elected as one of eleven Prosecutors, Impeachment Trial of former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada (2000 – 2001)
    • Chairman, Committee on Constitutional Amendments (1998 – 2000) – conducted nationwide and international consultations; Vice-Chairman, Committee on Justice
    • Acting Chairman, Committee on Justice Congressional Committee Hearings – Impeachment complaint against former President Estrada
    • Vice-Chairman, Committee of Higher and Technical Education; Subcommittee Chairman on Student Welfare, Enhancement and Protection of Human Rights, Immigration and Deprtation (1998 – 2001)
    • Delegate, Congressional Study Mission to the Ryerson Polytechnic School, Harvard, Georgetown, Toronto, New York and California Universities (May, 2000)
    • Principal author of over fifty (50) house bills (ranging from human rights, revision of laws, justice, labor and employment, health and infrastructure) and resolutions; Co-author of over sixty (60) bills and resolutions
    • Principal author of R.A. 8815, the law increasing the coverage of the Jose Abad Santos Day as a local holiday in Angeles City; R.A. 8860, establishing national high school in the municipality of Sta. Ana; R.A. 8990, converting the Municipality of San Fernando into a City Government of San Fernando, Pampanga
    • Co-author of the Clean Air Act
    • Tireless leader in the rehabilitation of lahar devastated communities and the funding of roads, bridges, livelihood projects, construction of schools, hospitals and day care centers totaling at least half a billion pesos in his term of office

       Tenth Congress (1995 – 1998)

  • Deputy Majority Floor Leader
  • Participant, 21st Convention Against Torture, United Nations Committee on Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, November – 1998;
  • Delegate, Liberal International Congress, London, U.K., November – 1997
  • Participant, Executive Program for Leaders, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., July – 1997
  • Delegate, 13th Convention on Asian Population and Development, Kobe, Japan, March 1997
  • Delegate, United Nations Second Reading of the Draft Optional Protocol Against Torture, Geneva Switzerland, October – 1996
  • Member, Oversight Committee on the Bases Conversions, Athens, Greece/Taipei, April – 1996

       Eight Congress (1987 – 1992)

  • The first elected representative under the 1987 Constitution
  • One of the principal authors of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law and measures combating illegal recruitment
  • Institutionalized and strengthened laws providing free elementary and secondary education
  • Acclaimed as on of the Outstanding Representatives of the progressive bloc
  • Participant, Congressional Study Mission on the Israeli Cooperative System, Tel Aviv, Israel, July – 1990

 JUDICIARY

Delegate to the Consultative Commission to Propose Revisions to the 1987 Constitutions (2005)
Clerk of Court (1975 – 1979)
Stenographer and Steno-typist in the Regional Trial Court of Angeles and Caloocan Cities, the Provincial Health Office of Pampanga and the Provincial Fiscal’s Office of San Fernando, Pampanga (1965 – 1974)

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AS A LAWYER, EDUCATOR AND CIVIL SERVANT

Fellow of the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (February 2006 to date)
Member of the Philippine Bar Association (January 18, 2006 to date)
Human Rights/Litigation Lawyer (1974 -1986/1992 – 1995)
Founding Member, Congressional/Political Consultants and Associates (CPCA< 1993 – 1995)
Full Professor, University of Assumption, San Fernando Pampanga, Contract Law (1983 – 1986/1992 – 1995); Participant in the drafting of the Rules of Criminal Procedure, UP Law Center (1985); Associate Professor, san Sebastian College of Law, Negotiable Instrument and Contract Law (1976 – 1980); associate Professor, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Commercial Law (1976 – 1980)
Member, Integrated Bar of the Philippines (1974 - to date)

SOCIAL AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS

Founding Chair, Opportunities for Community Advancement Foundation (OCA)
Co-Founder and Honorary Chair, Save Pampanga Movement
Co-Founder and Honorary Chair, Save San Fernando Foundation Incorporated;
Founding President, Movement for the Advancement of Young Advocates of Pampanga (MAYAP)
Founding Chair, Manananggol para sa Karapatang Pantao, Gitnang Luzon (MAKATAO)
Member and former Trustee, Movement of Attorneys for Brotherhood, Integrity, Nationalism, Inc. (MABINI)
Member, Kiwanis Club of San Fernando, Pampanga; Rotary Club of San Fernando Pampanga
Member, Rotary Club of San Fernando, Pampanga
Honorary Member, QUOTA International of San Fernando, Pampanga
Member, World Jurist Association, Washington, DC