| | Lawmakers
keep watch on budget  VELOSO,
RAMA, OPPUS, INTING |
City
lawmakers belonging to the minority bloc continue to keep a close watch on all
budgetary requests at the Sangguniang Panlungsod following the pending issue of
the P6.2 million unliquidated cash advances of ranking city hall officials including
the city mayor, and several other queries on huge increase in this year's budget
as compared to last year.
The
budget for last year was P258,238,389 as compared to this year's budget of P337,052,121.
Vice
Mayor Jose Antonio Veloso, SP presiding officer told the Chronicle last Friday
that a budgetary request coming from the office of the city mayor quoted a P53.4
million supplemental budget which was endorsed by the committee on appropriations
and accounts chaired by Kag. Oscar Glovasa.
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request came through a letter of the city mayor requesting the amount of P53,400,000
which was requested to be treated as a "special order of the day."
The
said amount, according to the letter request will be used for the following: P2
million for the payment of loan from the Development Bank of the Philippines;
P500,000 for fiberglass bat for bantay Dagat sea patrol; P250,000 for tents; P300,000
for fiberglass basketball goals, P350,000 for risograph machine and P50,000,000
for the rehabilitation/concreting/asphalting of city and barangay roads. |
Veloso
said that the request was referred for deliberation at the committee level as
Kagawad Bebin Inting who is a member of the appropriations committee asked that
the detailed program of work be submitted first so the budgetary request can be
studied further prior its approval.
The
source of the budgetary request will be the P50,000,000 loan from the DBP, and
some savings from 2008.
Kagawad
Djingo Rama for his part, told the august body that the public should be given
supporting documents to show and prove that indeed the amount requested will be
used properly for the purpose it is being intended.
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