The Bacolod City government may operate on a reenacted budget if the proposed P1.8 billion executive budget for 2016 is not approved by the Sangguniang Panlungsod before the year ends, acting Bacolod Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran said yesterday. The 2015 annual budget was P1.55 billion. Familiaran said the city council is still waiting for the report of Councilor Claudio Puentevella, chairman of the SP Committee on Finance, who is still set to conduct a series of public hearings on the proposed annual budget for 2016. He said the public hearings will be for purposes of a supplemental budget because the SP cannot propose additional budgets if departments and offices have concerns that were not included in their request for inclusion in the budget for 2016. Familiaran said they are mandated to approve the annual budget before the yearend. But if the budget is not passed before Jan. 1, 2016, the city will operate on a reenacted budget, he said, adding that there will be projects that will be hampered unless these are continuing projects. Meanwhile, Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr., said the SP has until March to approve the 2016 annual budget. Any possible delay in its approval may be due to the series of public hearings needed to discuss several revisions that other legislative members have requested especially the opposition, he said, referring to those allied with acting Mayor Greg Gasataya. Gamboa also pointed out that the change in the administration, following the suspension of Mayor Monico Puenetevella, affected the approval of the 2016 budget because the city is currently making its adjustment to the present administration under Gasataya. 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.*CGS BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
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