Mayor Madel is the first lady mayor of Iriga. She was elected in 2004 and was re-elected twice for six consecutive years as a city mayor, she has placed a lot of innovative programs on environmental protection and management that generated massive multi-stakeholders participation and contributed to the city's fight against global warming. As a result, the city has received several awards for these endeavors. With a 75% net trust rating from SWS (Social Weather Station) Survey in 2009 and 2017, the City IRA (Internal Revenue Allotment) went up to 500 million pesos from 103 millions. Local revenue has increased from 12 million pesos to 130 million pesos for the period of 2006 to 2018. City Government's asset became six times higher, from 200 million pesos to 1.2 billions from 2007 to 2018. These were achieved due to the innovative economic enterprises that contributed to the massive increase of income and assets; and due to the trust and confidence of the Iriga constituents