Albay · Component city
Services, officials and public records for Tabaco City, the port city on the eastern side of Mayon. Every figure below carries the source it came from, and anything we could not verify is marked as unverified rather than filled in.
Two sources, two land areas. PhilAtlas gives 117.14 km² and Wikipedia gives 117.45 km². We show the PhilAtlas figure and flag the disagreement rather than quietly picking one. It will be settled against the PSA record.
Who governs
Each name carries a confidence badge. A single unchecked source is not the same as a confirmed record, and this page says which is which.
Single source
Reynaldo B. Bragais
Single source
Baby Glenda O. Bongao
Not sourced
10 councillors
Not sourced
47 barangays
Two independent sources agree.
One source only. Being checked against a second.
No verified record yet. We will not invent one.
Services
The 16 service categories, filtered to Tabaco. Requirements, fees and office hours are being collected from the city’s Citizens Charter.
Birth, death and marriage certificates, CENOMAR, and how to request a certified copy or correct an entry.
Barangay clearance, mayor’s permit, renewals, closures, and the requirements for each.
Real property tax, business tax, amilyar deadlines, discounts for early payment, and tax clearance.
Free check-ups, vaccines and medicines, maternal and child care, and which hospital handles what.
Senior citizen, PWD and solo parent IDs, AICS financial aid, burial assistance, and 4Ps.
Local scholarships and how to apply, daycare and preschool enrolment, and student assistance.
Building and occupancy permits, road and drainage repair requests, water supply, and public facilities.
Seed and fertiliser support, veterinary services, fisherfolk registration, and training programmes.
Evacuation centres and routes, typhoon and Mayon alert levels, emergency hotlines, and fire safety.
Environmental clearance, tree cutting permits, coastal and watershed protection, clean-up drives.
Collection schedules, segregation rules, special and hazardous waste, and reporting illegal dumping.
Locational clearance, zoning, subdivision approval, and local housing programmes.
PESO job fairs, DOLE programmes, TESDA training, and the requirements for working abroad.
SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG offices across Bicol, membership, claims, and loan applications.
DFA passport appointments in Legazpi and Naga, NBI clearance, police clearance, and travel documents.
LTO licence and registration, LTFRB franchises, tricycle permits, and the district offices that handle each.
Public money
Two streams of public money build things in every Philippine city. The national government builds roads, bridges and flood control through DPWH, and the city builds its own programs out of its own budget. The first is published as data. The second usually is not, so this section shows both and marks the difference.
DPWH, every LGU in the countrypublished
search term “TABACO CITY”
sum of all contract amounts
13 still under construction
distinct names on the contracts
no contract amount yet
Pulled 18 August 2026 from the DPWH projects API behind bisto.ph, a BetterGov.ph and TAPAT initiative under a Memorandum of Cooperation with DPWH. The API records location as province and district engineering office only, with no city field, so this is a full-text match on the project description.
| Category | Projects | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Flood Control and Drainage | 45 | ₱2,615.9M |
| Roads | 40 | ₱2,030.3M |
| Buildings and Facilities | 41 | ₱1,243.6M |
| Bridges | 9 | ₱402.7M |
| Water Provision and Storage | 5 | ₱60.3M |
140 of 202 projects carry one of the clean category strings. The other 62 hold a fund code such as “GAA 2025 SSP” or two categories in one field. That is dirt in the source data and we count it as unclassified rather than guess.
Sanrho Builders, Inc. holds 47 of the 202 contracts in Tabaco, worth ₱2.63B. The five largest names together hold 56.1%.
Concentration is not evidence that anything improper happened, and this page does not suggest it is. Bicol has a small pool of firms with the bonding capacity for national road work, and a specialist winning repeatedly is an ordinary outcome. It is still a number worth knowing, so here it is against its peers, largest single contractor share in each of the seven Bicol cities.
Shares are of each city’s own contract value, not of the region. Names are matched as DPWH records them, so a joint venture counts as its own name and a firm appearing both alone and in a joint venture is undercounted here. The regional contractor view.
the city’s own budgetnothing published
We could not find a machine-readable list of the programs and projects Tabaco funds from its own budget, at any stage. That is the ordinary state of affairs in Bicol, not a mark against this LGU in particular. One city in the region publishes it, and the software it uses is free.
Naga City runs the People’s Budget Portal, built by WeSolve Foundation and Stride Technologies with support from BetterGov.PH. It is licensed AGPL-3.0 and its makers state it is meant as a foundation any LGU can adopt. See what it produces.
If Tabaco publishes this somewhere we missed, tell us and it goes up with attribution.
the city’s own projectsnothing published
For city-funded work there is no register anywhere in the region of what was awarded, to whom, for how much, and whether it was finished. Proposals get published. Bid invitations get published. What happened next does not.
The gap matters because it is the only stage a resident can check with their own eyes. A road either exists or it does not. Until an LGU publishes awards and completion, the national projects in Stage 1 are the only public works in Tabaco anyone outside city hall can follow from money to concrete.
Questions
47 barangays. Both PhilAtlas and Wikipedia agree on the count.
140,961 as of the 2020 census by the Philippine Statistics Authority. A 2024 figure of 140,779 appears in one source only and is shown here as unconfirmed.
Reynaldo B. Bragais, for the term beginning 30 June 2025, according to one source. We are checking it against the COMELEC canvass before marking it confirmed.
A component city of Albay, 4th income class, in the 1st legislative district.