ONLY LGU IN REGION WITHOUT ANNUAL BUDGET A RANKING Department of the Interior and Local Government official confirmed that Dagupan City is the only local government unit in Region 1 that failed to adopt and pass its 2023 annual budget on deadline. Provincial DILG Director Virgilio Sison confirmed the status…

A PREMEDITATED ‘MURDER’ OF DAGUPENOS’ WELFARE DESPITE five hearings attended by six officials from the executive department and three others, the seven-man majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod submitted a report justifying their rejection of Supplemental Budget No. 1, a proposed ordinance (No. 0-817) that was certified as urgent by Mayor…

DECEMBER 31, 2022 DEADLINE AS expected, Dagupan’s Sangguniang Panlungsod failed to meet the deadline for the passage of the city’s 2023 annual budget because the majority members never scheduled public hearings on the proposed 2023 budget submitted by the Fernandez administration last September 14, 2022. The majority members of the…

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2022 THE Department of the Interior and Local Government reminded the Dagupan City government to pass the Appropriations Ordinance of Dagupan City for Fiscal Year 2023, which to date has not been scheduled for a regular session’s agenda although already submitted to the Sangguniang Panlungsod more than…

TRANSACTIONS OVER UNDELIVERED MOTORBOATS TWO officials of the past Dagupan City administration claim their signatures on the documents covering the purchase of two wooden motorboats and paid in full in 2020 by the Dagupan City government were forged. The two former officials are Bernard Cabison, Waste Management  Division (WMD) head,…

NO AUDIT ON 2020-2021 SCHOLARS SUBMITTED THE Commission on Audit in Dagupan belatedly released its Audit Observation Memorandum on the scholarship fund disbursed for the school’s first semester this year dated December 1, 2022 that cited violations committed by at 141 scholars and who it said could be asked to reimburse…

CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES PRIORITIZED MEMBERS of the majority for the nth time again used their numerical advantage to thumb down a proposal of the minority seeking to include in the agenda the proposed Supplemental Budget No. 1 and Supplemental Annual Investment Program for 2022, after the latter noted that two of…

MANY HEADS ROLL THE regional office of the Commission on Audit (COA) and the office of the city auditor have been officially notified by the office of the city mayor to probe and explain in a special audit why several irregularities committed by past city administration are missing in the…

OWNERS ABANDON STRUCTURES THE removal of some 1,460 illegal fish pens and fish cages in Dagupan City finally started  last November 13 with the demolition of abandoned 15 oversized pens and cages located in Barangays Bonuan Gueset, Pugaro-Suit and Salapingao by the Task Force Bantay Ilog created by Mayor Belen…

RECENT DISCOVERY: 2 MISSING MOTORBOATS WITH more irregularities and anomalies committed by the past Lim administration being uncovered, affecting her administration, Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez is considering to seek the help of  the cybercrime division of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to establish accountabilities behind the series of deletion…