Dagupan SP majority to MBTF: You can’t fill up vacancies
THE majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod continues to prevent Mayor Belen Fernandez to appoint employees to fill up vacant positions in the city government since she assumed her post. By withholding a proposed resolution authorizing the chief executive to form a Personnel Selection Board in the executive department up to the end of the year.
In its last committee hearing on December 20, the committee on civil service and government reorganization headed by Councilor Alfie Fernandez contend to defer endorsement on the measure even after three committee hearings and cited the non-appearance of Mayor Bryan Kua, vice chairman of the Personnel Selection Board before his committee as the reason for the delay.
It was learned that Vice Mayor Kua will not honor the invitation of the committee to attend its hearings because as the vice mayor and SP presiding officer, he will not allow himself to be subjected to the rule process laid down by the committee. Besides, he said he considers the invitation of the committee as immaterial because he has not been named by the mayor as vice chairman with no clear functions.
The majority premises its action on two kinds of Personnel Selection Board, one for the executive department and the other for the Sangguniang Panlungsod, of which Vice Mayor Kua is the head, and the two must be organized in one resolution, hence, the inaction of the majority.
Sources in the SP say that the SP wants Kua to commit before the committee the 10 job order employees for each city councilor which Mayor Belen Fernandez limited to only three JOEs each for each citing limited funds in the city government.
Kua, as presiding officer, said he cannot react to the issue during the plenary sessions.
The office of the city mayor defended the decision to use the budget for the seven other JOEs of councilors for wages of workers providing more vital services, i.e., cleanliness and sanitation of the streets and markets. (Leonardo Micua)
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