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The local government of the Island Garden City of Samal has been elated over last year’s performance of its Economic Enterprise Unit having posed a positive figure on its income for the first time since Samal has been created a city in 1998.

“For the longest time, finally, we have realized an income and not a loss on the operations of our government-owned facilities”, said Jaime Colas, officer-in-charge of the economic enterprise unit.

Last year’s economic enterprises attained a net income of P1,143,546.00 as compared to a loss of P400,786 in 2008. Major contributors to this achievement are toll fees from the operations of wharves and Kaputian Beach Park. Although other economic enterprise operations incurred losses, their performances were not as bad as the previous years.

This year's implementation of the Business One-Stop Shop (BOSS) by the Local Government of the Island Garden City of Samal for the annual renewal of business permits and licenses has been a sweeping success. The BOSS was staged from January 05 until in the evening of January 20, 2010 . The enhancements to the BOSS from the previous years further helped the valued constituents of IGaCoS avoid the hassles in acquiring business permits and licenses because all offices involved, including national government agencies (NGAs) were stationed in just one place.