Dagupan LDC endorses P600 million supplemental budget for 2024
THE Local Development Council (LDC) approved the P600 million supplemental budget (No.1-2024) and its accompanying Comprehensive Development Plan and Local Development and Investment Program No. 1-2024 last April 15 for submission to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Dagupan.
The amount is earmarked for various important programs and projects of Dagupan, especially for the long overdue 2023 Special Recognition Incentive (SRI) and Gratuity Pay for each Job Order employee.
Addressing members of the LDC, composed of barangay captains, heads of civil society organizations and department heads of the city government at the CSI Stadia, Mayor Belen Fernandez said the P600 million supplemental budget will be sourced from accumulated savings from 2022 and 2023 proposed supplemental budgets but were not rejected by the seven-man opposition in the SP.
The opposition councilors comprising the majority did not approve any Supplemental Budget sought by the Belen Fernandez administration since 2022.
Workers of the city government have not been able to receive their last year’s SRI of P20,00 per regular employee and P5,000 gratuity pay due each job order employee, the same benefits already received by their counterparts in local government units in the country.
Fernandez revealed that five of the retired employees of the city government already died “without the benefit of enjoying the fruits of their many years of faithful service to the government”.
The approval of the P600 million Supplemental is Budget No. 1-2024 was moved in a motion by Bernard Tuliao, president of the Alliance of United Transport Organization-Provincewide, while its accompanying Supplemental Local Developmental Investment Program was moved by Francis Arzadon of the Dagupan People’s Development Council.
Aside from the SRI and gratuity pay of employees, including retirement benefits of former employees, the P600 million supplemental budget is intended to finance the construction of school buildings, elevation of flood-prone streets and roads, capital outlay for trucks and equipment in garbage collection and maintenance, and tools and vehicles for the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office. (Leonardo Micua)
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