Mayor finally submits DTP for 2022 budget
AFTER FIVE MONTHS DELAY
THE office of City Mayor Brian Lim finally submitted the city government’s proposed Devolution Transition Plan (DPT) to the Dagupam Sangguniang Panlungsod before the close of office hours on March 9, five months past its deadline on October 12, 2021.
As the prescribed process mandates, the SP must review the DPT before it is submitted to the Department of the Interior and Local Government. The SP is currently reviewing the Annual Investment Plan and its integral plans before passing the 2022 annual budget.
Two weeks ago, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) regional office had warned that it may issue a show cause order to the city government for its failure to submit the DPT way past the deadline for its submission as required by the Executive Order No. 138 of President Rodrigo Duterte.
The DTP is the plan of the local government showing on how it can absorb services and personnel downloaded to the local government by the national government using its additional share from all taxes collected by the government relative to the Mandanas ruling of the Supreme Court.
Michael David Casignia, Local Government Operations Officer IV of DILG Region 1, said all the four provinces in the region already submitted their respective DTPs except Dagupan City, the lone independent component city in Region 1.
As of March 8, 2022 regular session of the SP, the DTP was still not submitted.
City Secretary Ryan Ravanzo said the office of the City Mayor also did not respond to earlier series of resolutions of the SP requesting the submission of all documents, including the Project Procurement Management Plan, that are in support of the Annual Investment Plan (AIP) and its integral plans, which are necessary for the passage of the 2022 annual budget. (Leonardo Micua)
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