July 24 Votes
In addition to the two Resolutions which I sponsored on the floor, I voted yes to the following measures:
1. Approval of Supplemental Budget No. 1 as item under 1st reading (Councilor Militar);
2. Request to the DOTC to suspend the implementation of a new vehicle insurance system (Councilor Braga);
3. Request to TESDA to provide training programs to persons with disabilities (PWD) (Councilor Monteverde);
4. Budgets of 23 barangays (Councilor Manding)
5. Request for the extension of the voter registration for members of the SK (Councilor Dayap)
3 comments:
Sir,
Some questions:
1. Is the city's budget a public document? Is it published somewhere in the web? In what format? (It would be nice if it were published in excel format).
2. Will there be a report that will detail actual expenditures versus this budget?
3. Is it true that that the peace and order fund is not subject to the normal auditing rules?
4. How does this supplemental budget compare with the city's original budget? The disparity between the amount allocated to peace and order fund and the other categories seems pretty glaring.
5. It is just a little over half of the year and yet a supplemental budget has to passed. Were these expenses not projected when the original budget was crafted?
6. Can you make an simple analysis of the city's budget? (Percentages, actual amounts allocated for the different tasks/departments of the city)
I would love to answer all your questions. But better go to the City Budget Office at City Hall for complete details. So sorry, the budget is not yet available in the web. I have been suggesting this to no avail. Hard copy is available and it is a public document. But you must understand that these are voluminous documents. Annual Budgets alone are about four inches thick. SB No. 1 executive summary is 18 pages long.
All funds, peace and order included, are subject to regular auditing rules.
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