BENGUET Representative Ronald Cosalan is set to pitch in more funds for sports in the province.
Following the P1-million funding of La Trinidad town’s football and baseball program, Cosalan has urged the other municipalities to come up with their own community sports program to avail of such funding.
“If we could give one million for La Trinidad, then we could also give other towns funding for their sports program,” said Cosalan.
La Trinidad recently formulated program for baseball and football from the P1 million, which came from the Benguet lawmaker.
Cosalan said the financial support for the two sports came from his priority development assistance fund. He said baseball and football are the two sports where the municipality can excel locally and internationally.
Earlier this year, La Trindad Mayor Greg Abalos opened the sports summit held in the valley with an aim to prepare the blueprint of a comprehensive development program for the capital town.
The proposed creation of a municipal sports council was one of the decisions reached by concerned officials after the summit, with a hope that the body will be able to identify and train individual and group of local athletes that will compete in national and international events.
“We want to focus on all sports like boxing, volleyball but not basketball because we want to develop the potential of the youth in sports here in Benguet,” added Cosalan.
Cosalan also said that his office is set to release additional funding for Benguet’s sports development that will be allotted to the municipalities that will come with sports program aside from La Trinidad. (Roderick Osis)
Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on October 31, 2011.
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