HON. GHIEL “OYING” G. ROSALES is a third-term City Councilor of Naga City presently serving as chairperson of the committees on Laws and Ordinances; Rules and Privileges; and Cooperatives Development.

POLITICS AND ADVOCACY

He started his political career at the age of 21 when he ran for Barangay Kagawad of San Felipe and served therein for two terms before joining the City Council in 2019 as the youngest elected member of the 13th Sangguniang Panlungsod of Naga.

During his first term, he strongly advocated for the rationalization of the City’s investment planning and budgeting through fiscal discipline and people participation in the City’s budget operations. Noted for his active campaign in the prompt and effective submission of barangay budgets for review by the Sangguniang Panlungsod, the recurrent delay in the approval of barangay budgets every year was greatly mitigated.

Oying also authored ordinances which institutionalized the City’s programs on Community-Based Trainings for Enterprise Development, the Naga City Cooperatives Development Office, and the JobStart Program which helped young Nagueños find gainful and stable employment.

As chairperson of the Committee on Environment and Energy, he authored the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Ordinance (Ord. 2023-10) which established mechanisms for the City’s energy conservation efforts and promoted the use of renewable energy sources. During his 2nd term, he also made possible the grant of incentives to barangay volunteers involved in solid waste management efforts to augment the City’s capacity to ensure cleanliness of streets and waterways.

He was also known to have promoted the reinforcement of waste reduction measures by the City Government of Naga during the recently held 2022 Penafrancia Fiesta, having urged collaboration with the Archdiocese, the business sector, academe and civic society through SP Resolution 2022-748. During the 13^th Sanggunian, he persistently objected to the cutting of 71 century-old trees along Maharlika Highway at Barangay Del Rosario to give way for road widening projects of the DPWH, heeding the call of environment groups to implement more responsive road designs in our national roads.

In the 14th Sanggunian, his policies continued to show his dedication in improving the youth sector through City Ordinance 2024-129 which further strengthened the Naga City Youth Development Office and provided basis for the City Government to allocate at least 1% of its budget for youth development purposes.

With his recognized commitment to enhance people’s participation and good governance, he sponsored the passage of the “I-engage Ordinance”, a landmark ordinance which provides an avenue for individual citizens to formally contribute in the City’s policy-making process and the “Citizen’s Charter Ordinance” which strengthened the role of the Citizen’s Charter as a tool to exact accountability among City Officials and employees. He is also the author of the “4PH Ordinance” which will pave the way for the implementation of the Pambansang Pabahay Para sa Pilipino (4PH) Program through joint venture partnerships with private developers which is estimated to provide thousands of homes to Nagueño families.

LEGAL CAREER

Aside from his elective post, Oying is also engaged in law practice with his admission to the Philippine Bar in 2022; joining his family’s legal profession lineage which runs from his grandfather, Atty. Florencio R. Rosales, and his father, Prosecutor Fiel L. Rosales, former Naga City Councilor (1992-2001).

CIVIC LIFE

His active civic and community involvement dates back during his college years when he led an international service fraternity – collegiate chapter, as President in 2010-2012, which became the only greek-letter fraternity recognized by the University at that time. At the height of the pandemic, he organized young businessmen and professionals in Naga City to charter the Rotary Club of Naga Heights which established one of first barangay community Wi-Fi centers in the City of Naga last April 2022.

PERSONAL LIFE

Oying, a young family man, is married to Darlene Joy and father to Stephen Gael and Penelope Lara. He is the eldest of three children born to Fiel Lara Rosales and Gladys Pardo Gomez, a college dean of the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture. His siblings are Raymac, a physician, and Jillian, a dentist.