City Mayor Patrick Escalante recently submitted to the Office of the Sangguniang Panlungsod for legislative authorization his proposed annual budget for 2011 in the amount of P550,912,545.00 for general fund and P5,100,000.00 for Economic Enterprise Fund.
The proposed budget for the Operation of Economic Enterprise (operation of markets) shall be sourced out from the estimated receipts of P2,000,000.00 cash tickets,P2,000,000.00 stall rentals, and P1,100,000.00 as subsidy from the General fund.
Mayor Escalante described the thrust and orientation of the 2011 budget as “sustaining the momentum” with a direction that is supportive to what has been started by the past administration in making Cadiz City as gateway and premier center in the agro-fishery resources in Negros Island and to transform the city into a major entry point with an integrated agricultural and fishery program components.
The chief executive also informed that we are one of the few local government units that are able to implement the second tranche monthly salary schedule based on the Salary Standardization Law (SSL II) for second class cities on January 2011.
According to City Budget Officer Vicente Napoles, the implementation of salary increase in 2011 has posted a raise of 16% in the amount of P 32,786,71.00 in the annual budget. The hazard pay of health workers, which will be based on their current rates of salary, has an additional appropriation of P1,957,533.00 also increase by 20%.
Around 272 million will go to general services, 143 million is allocated for economic services, 68,749,000 for social services and 66,993,000.00 million intended for other services. Some of the program appropriations for 20% development fund are the construction of City Government Employees Development Center at BLISS Area, Brgy. Daga - P5,000,000.00, financial support to cooperative project - P500,000, financial support to GMA program for fisheries - P500,000.00, Bantay Dagat Protection program 300,000.00, Coastal Fishing Resource Management program - P300,000.00 and Rural Road network Dev. Program - P2,000,000.00.
Under the personal services, the monetization of leave credits has an allocation of P5,591,181.00, Longevity or Loyalty pay P1,403,000.00 and 1.5 million allotted for the scholarship grant.
The city’s budget depends mostly on the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) from the national government./*
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