The Regional Development Council (RDC-7) has approved Bohol's incoming impact projects topped by a modern hospital that reinvents health governance and a capitol of iconic green architecture at a combined cost of P2.6 billion. Both landmark facilities share lead contents of the Regional Priority Action Agenda (RPAA) for 2014-2016, which is aimed at truly responding to the needs and hoped to capture genuine inclusive growth. Chaired by Gov. Edgar Chatto, the RDC endorsed for 2015 national budget inclusion the rise of the new P2.2 billion Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital (GCGMH) and P400 million provincial capitol in its meeting at Bohol Tropics on Thursday. It was the first full-body meeting of the powerful Central Visayas council under Chatto and its first joint conference with the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC), which also has a new chairman in Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III. With a Boholano at its helm, the council would get support from all its counterparts in the country to establish the so-called Regional Development Fund.

Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III appointed Chatto to the RDC chairmanship, replacing Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama, and NEDA Regional Director Efren Carreon as new vice chairman. The historic joint assembly had fitting preliminaries with the Bohol leader sworn in as new RDC chairman by National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Sec. Arsenio Balisacan, followed by Chatto turning over the RPOC chairmanship to Davide, son of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. The Aquino administration's top socio-economic planner said he was “honored to swear in” Chatto whom he described as “one of the country's hardest working public servants.” “I like this place. I like this province,” further declared the NEDA secretary who had to leave after the induction to visit on-going projects and sites of new projects in the province. For relocation to a proposed site in Cortes, the GCGMH was endorsed to the Department of Health (DOH) for a multi-year funding starting in 2015 until the ambitious project's completion.

Cebu leaders got RDC's endorsement of the plan to build a new Cebu City Medical center (CCMC) at an amended cost of P800 million from originally P1 billion. The new provincial capitol, which is included in the Bohol Earthquake Rehabilitation Plan like the GCGMH, is planned to rise beside the Hall of Justice overlooking the CPG Park in Cogon, Tagbilaran City, which mayor, John Geesnell Yap II, welcomed the RDC-RPOC officers and members from across the region. Bohol's other incoming and forthcoming high-impact projects as supported by the RDC are the Malinao Dam Improvement Project (MDIP) in Pilar, third stage of the Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement Project (BCRIP-3), Loon Tourism Enterprise Zone (LTEZ), sustainable power generation, bulk water supply, and Tagbilaran City drainage and sewerage system.

The RDC likewise endorsed the reconstruction and repair of earthquake-damaged bridges along the province's circumferential road network for Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding. Balisacan announced that the NEDA Board led by the president just approved the Malinao project together with the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit System (CBRT), said to be the first in the country, and new Bohol airport construction which is on bidding. Already endorsed in earlier meetings of the RDC, the dam and transit projects are among the major undertakings in the updated Regional Development Plan (RDP) for 2104-2016 and, thus, likewise included in the priority action plan. The dam upgrading costs P653.749 million in three years of implementation to increase the giant irrigation facility's impounding capacity by 3.11 million cubic meters and raise palay production within its service area by some 17,700 metric tons a year.