The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod will have only one item on its agenda during its regular session today, which is the proposed 2016 executive budget amounting to P1.8 billion, acting Bacolod City Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran said yesterday. The proposed annual budget was submitted by suspended Mayor Monico Puentevella to the SP last year and was accepted by his son, Councilor Claudio Puentevella, chairman of the SP Committee on Finance. Familiaran said Article 415 of the Local Government Code (Budget Authorization) mandates the council should continue to hold sessions without additional renumeration for each member until the ordinance authorizing the annual appropriation is approved, and no other business may be taken up during such session. If the SP fails to enact such ordinance after 90 days from the beginning of the fiscal year, the reenacted budget should remain in force and effect until such time that the ordinance authorizing the annual appropriation is approved by the Sanggunian, he said. Familiaran said the proposed annual budget has been approved on first reading and they are just waiting for Councilor Puentevella to submit his committee report on the budget hearings he conducted last year. Acting Mayor Greg Gasataya said he is leaving the proposed annual budget to the wisdom of the Sanggunian. In the meantime that the new budget has not yet been acted upon, he already instructed the Budget Officer to prepare everything for the re-enacted budget as government service should continue to function, he said. Gasataya, however, said they have limitations as to what they can do or not on a reenacted budget, based on the law. “We are already in a political season but, as much as possible, I am trying the best that I can, to set aside politics and continue to work for the welfare of Bacolod City,” he said. Gasataya also said he has left to the department heads the hiring of job order casuals for January regardless of political color, particularly the hiring of additional traffic enforcers.*CGS BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
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