2024 SUPPLEMENTAL ANNUAL INVESTMENT, BUDGET

THE Local Development Council (LDC) headed by Mayor Belen Fernandez endorsed the Proposed Supplemental Annual Investment Program of P36.096,000, and Proposed Supplemental Budget No. 2 with the same amount for approval by the Sangguniang Panlungsod in its next regular session.

The Proposed SAIP was passed on motion of Francisco Arzadon, a member of the Dagupan People’s Council, while the Proposed Annual Supplemental Budget was proposed by Barangay Chairman Paul Mark Gutierrez of Poblacion Oeste,  both to be funded by savings on unfilled positions, and other office savings of the Dagupan City up to November this year.

The P36,096,000 outlay will pay for Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) for 586 regular employees, and gratuity pay of  767 contract of service (COS) and Job Order Employees as provided for in the newly issued Administrative Order Nos. 12 and 13, series of 2023 of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Regular employees and COS employees and JOEs in all departments will receive P20,000 and P5,000, respectively.

The SRI will also fund equipment needed by the City Waste Management Office, City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office and the Public Alert Response Monitoring Center.

City Waste Management Officer Bernard Cabison said the city needs two brand new dump trucks to be able to haul more than 18 to 20 tons of garbage for the city’s daily 60 to 67 tons to the Metro Clark Waste Management Facility in Capas, Tarlac.

If the Supplemental AIP No. 2  and Supplemental Budget No. 3 are passed, the city can buy one pay loader, one back hoe, one excavator, three garong-type tricycles for garbage collection and jackhammers and other tools needed by CDRRMO for emergency rescue operations during the calamity.

Meanwhile, Mayor Fernandez said the two motorboats paid for by the previous city administration designed to load garbage from the island barangays are still missing.

Meliquin Bauzon, OIC of PARMC, said the threat of tsunami on Dagupan City is real and cited the urgency of transferring her office from the first floor to the third floor of the building it occupies because the city must watch out not only movements of the Manila Trench, some 100 kilometers west of Bolinao, but for movements of two other active faults—the San Manuel Fault (near the San Roque Multi-purpose Dam and the Zambales Fault near Infanta town.

The LDC meeting was attended by Vice Mayor Bryan Kua, Councilors Michael Fernandez, Jeslito Seen and reelected Liga ng mga Barangay Chairman Marcelino Fernandez, and Atty. Liberato Reyna Jr., chairman of the Dagupan City People’s Council. (Leonardo Micua)

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