The Past Leaders of Quezon City: Amoranto

THE NORBERTO AMORANTO ADMINISTRATION
January 11, 1954 – March 30, 1976

Norberto Salandanan Amoranto was born on June 4, 1908, in a little nipa house in Barrio San Jose, Binan, Laguna. His mother, Rufina Salandanan was a meat vendor in the public market, and his father, Lucio Amoranto, was a goldsmith who turned to farming when his eyesight began to grow dim. Norberto was the eight of nine sons and daughters.

One of Amoranto’s very first act as mayor was the organization of the Mayor’s Complaint Committee on January 19, 1954, where complaints and denunciations of the residents erring employees and officials would be “acted upon with dispatch.” Patterned after the Presidential Complaint and Action Commission of President Magsaysay, this anti – graft group of Quezon City was directed by Amoranto “to give priority to complaints aired by the under – privileged and to spare no effort in bringing to light government irregularities regardless of the Party affiliation of those involved.”

Amoranto, a fiscal expert, looked into the dismal financial condition of the city. He called Treasurer Conrado Hernandez to help him in pursuing “stringent economy measures in the disposition of people’s money in an effort to balance the city budget and to steer clear from previous administration’s unwise deficit spending policy.” He further asked the treasurer “to exert effort to undo the huge budget deficit incurred by the previous administration’s contractual obligations amounting to more than P85, 000.00 pertaining to wages of “election campaign gangs”

excerpts from http://www.qcpubliclibrary.org/qcmanuscript.php#amoranto_administration