BACOLOD City Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr. said the proposed P1.8-billion 2016 Annual Budget, which is P250 million higher compared to 2015 budget of P1.55 billion, may not be approved this year. The possible delay could be that there is a pending public hearing to be conducted yet, he said. Gamboa, a member of the City Council committee on finance, said a series of public hearings is needed for the approval of the 2016 Annual Budget due to several revisions that the other councilors wanted to make. He said the committee on finance has just only conducted one public hearing recently, so it needed again a series of public hearings. The suspension of Mayor Monico Puentevella affected the approval of the budget because the city is making adjustments to the new administration under acting Mayor Greg Gasataya. “It will require more time, more public hearing before they can even change the provisions there in the proposed budget,” the councilor said. He said it’s just fine that the approval of the annual budget will be pending for they are allowed to approve it until March next year or they can still reenact the 2015 budget. The non-passage of the budget will not in any way hamper the basic social services of the city government, it will still keep going because the reenacted budget will provide the financial funding to the projects of the city, he said. Acting Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran said the City Council will just wait for Councilor Claudio Jesus Puentevella, chairman of the committee on finance, when he will submit his committee report to council. Puentevella is the son of the suspended mayor. Familiaran clarified that the public hearings were just a supplemental purposes.”If there are departments that have concern to their budget which have not included in the 2016 proposed budget maybe given an appropriations for the supplemental budget in the future. Familiaran said most of the concerns of the several department heads that they have lack of budget in their respective departments. From the P1.8 billion proposed budget, about 53 percent of the proposed 2016 general fund budget will be funded from the Internal Revenue Allocation share of the city while the remaining 47 percent will be taken from the projected income that the city will generate from its tax and non-tax revenue collections. Forty three percent of the proposed budget will finance the city government's Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses, while Personal Services gets 33 percent, and Capital outlay - 15 percent and the rest of the expenses combining to nine percent of the total budget. (CNC)
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