FORMATION OF PSB SNAGGED ANEW IT’S been nine months since the resolution creating the Personnel Selection Board (PSB) was submitted and certified urgent by Mayor Belen Fernandez, and the seven-man majority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod continues to block its adoption. The committee on civil service and government reorganization, chaired by…

HIRING, PROMOTIONS DEFERRED NO qualified personnel can still be appointed to help in the delivery of basic services and special programs and neither will the city hall employees set for promotion can get their due because the 7-majority suspended action anew on the resolution granting Mayor Belen Fernandez the authority…

AFTER TERMINATING EMPLOYEES AS if passing a zero budget for job order employees and deleting funds for scholars were not enough, the 7-man majority at the Sangguniang Panlungsod continues to block the resolution amending the city’s Human Resources Management, Promotion and Selection Board (HRMPSB) adopted in September 28, 2022. The…

57 CASES IN PANGASINAN FOURTEEN towns and four cities were recently included in the Provincial Health Office’s  (PHO) COVID-19 watchlist amid reports of increasing number of cases in Pangasinan despite the extreme hot weather with heat index daily no lower than sizzling 40 degrees Celsius. As of May 10, at…

SILG ABALOS GETS BRIEFER A BRIEFER on the passage of P864.91 million annual budget of Dagupan City was handed to Interior and Local Government Secretary Ben Hur Abalos by Mayor Belen Fernandez last April 30 when he was in Dagupan to spearhead the BIDA Fun Run and to do the…

PANGASINAN GOES TO BUSINESS THE Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) has granted a P6.8 billion loan to the provincial government of Pangasinan for its monumental projects, including the construction of several land ports and terminals along the planned 166-kilometer Pangasinan Link Expressway (PLEX). This was confirmed by LBP President…

SOME LOST ITEMS RESTORED THE City of Dagupan and its people awaits with bated breath the review of the approved P864.91 million annual budget passed by the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) on March 28, by the regional office of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), which was…

9 ITEMS CITED IN VETO MAYOR Belen Fernandez submitted to the Sangguniang Panlungsod an eight-page partial veto of Ordinance No. 2257-2023 that allocated only P864.91million annual budget, far from the P1,3 billion that was proposed by her at 3:02 pm on April 13. Specifically, line items she vetoed were: The…

INDIGNATION RALLY VS. ANTI-POOR BUDGET WHAT was supposed to be a simple flag-raising ceremony last April 3 turned out to an indignation rally led by many of the more than 700 job order employees who were laid off because the seven majority councilors in the Sanggunian Panlungsod did not provide…

SP MAJORITY SABOTAGES CITY HALL MARCH 28 was considered the saddest day in Dagupan’s history when the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod asserted its supremacy over the minority in amending the proposed resolution approving the Annual Investment Plan (AIP) as well as all its integral plans and a proposed ordinance approving an…