TACLOBAN CITY – Members of the Tacloban City Council elected their new set of officers for Philippine Councilors League – Tacloban Chapter held August 4 at the Sanggunian Panlungsod Building. For term 2016 to 2019 Councilor Edwin Chua was elected as president while Jerry Uy as vice-president. Both Chua and Uy are lawyers by profession and are serving their last term as city councilors. Councilor Evangeline Esperas, also a lawyer is the new secretary. Third term council member Victor Emmanuel Domingo is the treasurer. Third term council member Edward Frederick Chua is auditor while new council members Aurora Aimee Grafil and Rachelle Erica Pineda were elected as Public Relation office and Business Manager respectively. Chapter directors are second term council members Raissa Villasin and Jose Mario Bagulaya and first term council member Maria Elvira Casal. National PCL officials headed by PCL Chairman Elmer Datuin, Vice-President for Visayas Wilson Gamboa and Vice-Chairman for Visayas Wilson Uy supervised the election. Tacloban Council is the third PCL chapter in Eastern Visayas that elected their officials after the Samar chapter that conducted their election on July 30 and Leyte Chapter on August 3. Regional chapter election of PCL is set on September while the national election for PCL officials is in October. (ROEL T. AMAZONA)
