Alvin Dizon

Alvin Mañoza Dizon (;born August 2, 1971) is a Filipino politician currently serving as a council member for the of the Cebu City Council. He is a member of Bando Osmeña - Pundok Kauswagan (BOPK) and , which he is its only elected official in Cebu City.
Along with 7 other elected council members, his district covers 46 barangays of Cebu City.
Early life and career
Dizon was born in Ormoc City, Leyte to Rodolfo S. Dizon and Jesusa M. Dizon, both public school teachers. He completed his elementary education at Ormoc City Central School in 1984 and secondary education in 1988 at Ormoc City High School. He went on to University of Cebu and earned his bachelor's degree in customs administration in 1991. He then took up Masters in Public Administration at Cebu Normal University.
He went on to become the youngest chairperson of Kaabag sa Sugbo, a network of Cebu-based non-government organizations engaged in the various aspects of social development work. As its co-founder, he served as executive director of the Center for Participatory Government (CPAG) and was a member of Akbayan's national executive committee. He also worked as a program officer for Fellowship for Organizing Endeavors (FORGE) and consultant for Asia of Olof Palme International Center.
Councilor, 2010-2013
Dizon served as chairman of the Cebu City Council's Committee on Housing. He also served as vice chairman of the Committee on Youth & Sports Development and Committee on Tourism, Local & International Relations and Arts & Culture.
He proposed city ordinances adopting & approving a shelter plan framework for urban poor dwellers, loan restructuring for beneficiaries of the slum improvement & resettlement (SIR) program, increase private sector representation in the Cebu City Cultural and Historical Affairs Commission (CHAC), creating a Cebu City Housing Board, and providing free parking space for senior citizens and persons with disability.
He authored City Ordinance No. 2339 or the Cebu City Anti-Discrimination Ordinance which passed in 2012 making Cebu City the first local government unit in the Philippines to have an anti-discrimination measure. The said ordinance prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability, age, health status, sexual orientation and gender identity, ethnicity, and religion within the city.
Councilor, 2013-2016
Dizon went on to serve his second term after placing 6th in the 2013 elections obtaining 85,011 votes.
He, along with city councilors Nestor Archival, Maria Nida Cabrera and Margarita Osmeña, signed the committee report recommending against the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Barangay Sawang Calero by Ludo Power Corporation citing the "lack of social acceptability" for the said proposal. During the deliberations of the proposed ordinance on providing cash incentives for licensure examination topnotchers, he sought to include an amendment wherein all topnotchers who graduated from schools and university in the city to be eligible, but was thumbed down by the Cebu City Council as they required the recipients to be a registered voter in the city. He resigned as chairman of the Committee on Housing after the city council failed to override the veto on the proposed ordinance imposing a one-year moratorium on demolitions lamenting that they have "failed" the urban poor community.
He was one of the 12 councilors including then Mayor Michael Rama and Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella for "grave abuse of authority" in approving the distribution and receiving PHP 20,000 calamity fund even though they were not victims of super typhoon Yolanda and the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit Cebu in 2013.
He sought for a third and last term as city councilor in the 2016 elections but fell short after placing 9th with 91,102 votes. Only eight seats were up for grabs.
Councilor, 2019-present
Dizon placed 5th in the 2019 elections with 102,911 votes. During his first few weeks as city councilor in the 15th Sangguniang Panlungsod, he proposed an ordinance to institutionalize holding quarterly offsite regular sessions for the Cebu City Council in different barangays of Cebu City to make its members "more grounded and aware of the issues and concerns of various barangays." Such practice was done during the 12th Sangguniang Panlungsod where offsite regular sessions were done in Barangays Bonbon, Guba, Talamban and Luz.
He has also proposed city ordinances on designating gender-neutral bathrooms in business establishments, reduction of food waste through food donation & recycling, and free dementia screening for senior citizens.
City consultant
A year after his unsuccessful re-election bid in the 2016 elections, he was appointed by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña as a city consultant for the Cebu City Anti-Discrimination Commission where he led the formulation of the implementing rules and regulations of the Cebu City Anti-Discrimination Ordinance and the Cebu City Sister Cities Commission. He resigned from both positions prior to the filing of certificate of candidacies as he sought a return to the city council in the 2019 elections.
Personal life
Dizon is married to Teresa Carabuena Dizon, a university teacher.

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