BONTOC, Mountain Province -- Following deferments on the one year-old proposed ordinance calling for a P100,000 annual subsidy per barangay, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on motion of board member Winston Calde invited the public to present their positions on said proposed ordinance whether it should be approved or not.
The ordinance pending approval on third reading was earlier forwarded by incumbent provincial president of the Association of Barangay Captains and candidate for governor Bonifacio Lacwasan Jr; and board members Marcial Lawilao Jr, Winston Calde and Herbert Bantic on March 16 last year.
Most barangay officials from the municipalities of Barlig, Natonin, Sagada, Bauko, Sadanga, Bontoc, and Paracelis aired their support for the ordinance.
Some 3,000 signatories including barangay officials and residents from 63 barangays in said municipalities supported the resolution, SP records revealed.
The ordinance said there was unequal distribution of development projects to the disadvantage of other barangays. The provincial budget has an annual budget of P48 million and 20 percent of this amount goes to development funds.
Barangay Captain Herman Farnican of Maligcong Bontoc lamented during their meeting with the Sangguniang Panlalawigan the unequal distribution of development funds as allotment depends on who is favored by the Governor, Farnican said.
The ordinance proposes the amount of P14.4 million to be sourced from the 20% development funds of the Province to be proportionately distributed to the 144 barangays of the province.
The proposed ordinance specially calls for the improvement of the living conditions of the people through subsidy for infrastructure development programs in barangays including Day Care and Multipurpose Centers.
It was noted that some barangays don’t even have Day Care or Barangay Centers . The ordinance also called for barangay officials to come up with their barangay development plans in consultation with their respective constituents.
Lawilao Jr. who is seeking another term for the same position said the rest of oppositionist- board members to the proposed resolution were hesitant on approving the P100,000 proposed subsidy to be allotted as barangay subsidy, as some apparently favored pooling the 20% dev’t funds to high impact projects.
Moon Beam and the Sons and Daughters of Veterans of Paracelis on the other hand, forwarded their comment on the proposed resolution calling for attention to less developed barangays that need more development funds to be appropriated from the Province’s development funds.
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