The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod deferred action on the request of acting Bacolod Mayor Greg Gasataya to appropriate P26.1 million for the additional bonus of regular and plantilla casual employees and terminal pay, and to extend the contract of services with Dynamic Builders for garbage collection for six months. Acting Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran said the SP will hold a special session today after they failed to reach a common decision on the various requests of Gasataya. They decided to go on recess after a lengthy deliberation and will resume today to continue the discussion, he said. Familiaran said they have also invited the budget officer and city treasurer to the special session today to answer some queries of the councilors. Gasataya had said the P25 million will cover the additional bonuses of 1,640 regular and plantilla casual employees amounting to P15,000 each, while P1 million will go to the terminal pay of employees who have resigned. Councilor Caesar Distrito said they really want the additional benefits of the employees discussed, because there is a pressure of time considering that the last banking day is December 29. Everybody is expecting to have their Noche Buena on Christmas eve. So they are hoping that the members of Council will be sensitive to the plight of the employees who are expecting to receive something for Christmas, he said. Councilor Em Ang said she raised an appeal to the members of the SP that they should not delay the special session. Originally, the suggestion was for the special session to be held on the 28 th but she saw that there are only three banking days left. The last banking day will be on the 29th and knowing that there are processes to be followed, she felt that there will no enough time for the bonuses to be processed, she said. “I feel for the employees because they deserve this. This is due them because they have worked for this for one whole year so they deserve to receive this in order that they will have something on their table for Noche Buena,” Ang said Councilor Roberto Rojas said the SP should have called the finance group to the session yesterday if they needed some clarifications. He said he believes that the request of Gasataya is very valid. He hopes the SP will act on the request, he added. Councilor Claudio Puentevella said they want to study the matter and find out where the fund will be sourced and if all the employees will be benefited. As early as November the employees received their performance enhancement incentive bonus, he said. Gasataya said they have submitted all the required documents for the additional bonus. Only those who have worked for four consecutive months prior to October 31 can avail of the P15,000 bonus, he said. The fund will be sourced from savings from unfilled positions and other budgets that will not be used by the city, Gasataya said. This is the same incentive given by other local governments to their employees, he said. Gasataya said we looked for the funds but it is up to the SP whether they will allow it or not. They did everything to give additional incentives to the regular and casual employees, as well as executive assistants appointed by suspended Mayor Monico Puentevella, he said. Meanwhile, Gasataya said the request for an extension of the contract of services of Dynamic Builders for garbage collection for six months was signed by Puentevella and accepted by the contractor and he just endorsed it to the SP. He only received the contract several days ago, he said. Gasataya said the contract of Dynamic Builders will end on December 31. They cannot conduct a bidding because they have no approved budget for the contract, he said. He believes that the decision of Puentevella to extend the contract for six months is reasonable at this point in time, considering that they cannot hold a bidding because there is no annual budget for 2016 as this is still ending at the SP, Gasataya said. “Unless there is an annual budget then, probably, you can consider other options. But I have no other options but to concur in the request of Puentevella to extend the contract of Dynamic Builders,” he added.*CGS BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
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