BACOLOD City – The appropriation ordinance for this year’s budgets of 22 barangays here has yet to be approved.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) cannot tackle the barangays’ proposed budgets – and all other matters – until it has approved the city’s 2016 proposed ordinance, explained Acting Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran. Section 323 of the Local Government Code bars the city council from discussing anything in its session until the proposed annual budget of the city has been tackled. The SP failed to pass Bacolod City’s proposed 2016 budget last year. Barangays whose budgets still have to be approved are: * Alangilan (P4.94 million) * Mandalagan (P15.97 million) * Taculing (P22.5 million) * Pahanocoy (P8.7 million) * Mansilingan (P25.7 million) * Villamonte (P24 million) * Banago (P18 million) * Handumanan (P16.6 million) * Felisa (P4.8 million) * Bata (P16.2 million) * Barangay 11 (P1.7 million) * Barangay 4 (P2.7 million) * Barangay 26 (P2.3 million) * Barangay 16 (P5.5 million) * Barangay 40 (P3.3 million) * Barangay 6 (P2.9 million) * Barangay 3 (P3.1 million) * Barangay 31 (P2.4 million) * Barangay 32 (P1.9 million) * Barangay 37 (P1.9 million) * Barangay 1 (P6.3 million), and * Barangay 30 (P3.4 million). Other barangays submitted their 2016 budget proposals for ratification before 2015 ended and these were approved by the SP, said Familiaran. City Budget Officer Victor Treyes said the SP ratification of the proposed budgets is only a “technical process” and won’t affect the financial operations of the barangays. Even without the SP ratification, he said, barangay councils can already use their funds this year since they have already approved them anyway. Barangay Captain Mona Dia Jardin of Felisa, however, said they cannot implement projects under their 20-percent development fund without the SP ratification. A barangay can only disburse funds for personal services such as honorarium of barangay kagawads and salaries of job order employees, said Jardin./PN BY MAE SINGUAY Panay News February 04, 2016 sgg
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