Barangay eligibility

EDITORIAL

The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has recently issued a new policy on the grant of Barangay Official Eligibility (BOE), through CSC Memorandum Circular No. 13, series 2012.

One of the revisions is on the service requirement which shall be strictly based on completion of term of office instead of the previous aggregate five-year service requirement.

           

The BOE is granted by the CSC to qualified elective and appointive barangay officials such as punong barangay, barangay kagawad, sangguniang kabataan chairman, barangay treasurer and secretary.     

Term of office is based on prevailing law on term of office of elected barangay officials. Deficiency in services rendered may be considered for the grant of BOE provided that the deficiency in services rendered shall not exceed 15 days.

Completion of term of office for appointive officials (barangay treasurer and barangay secretary) means the continuous number of years of satisfactory service rendered from the time of appointment, which must correspond to number of years covering the term of office of the appointing punong barangay.

           

Deficiency of services rendered by appointive officials not exceeding 15 days may also be considered for the grant of BOE. However, appointive officials with more than 15 days deficiency may include services rendered under previous appointments of similar capacity (like. present position as barangay secretary and previous appointments also of the same item) in the same barangay to complete required number of years corresponding to the term of office.

           

Services rendered in elective capacity shall not be considered to augment services rendered in appointive capacity and vice versa.

           

The policy changes on the service requirement like barangay sangguniang kabataan chairmen, who, despite completion of their three-year term of office, were restrained from availing of the BOE grant for not meeting the aggregate five-year service requirement.

The CSC prescribes that entitlement for grant of BOE shall belong exclusively to the duly elected barangay official and appointive barangay officials.  

Also, for appointive barangay officials, those who are related up to the 4^th degree of consanguinity or affinity to the appointing punong barangay shall no tquality for the grant of BOE.

           

Appointive barangay officials applying for the grant of BOE shall be required to submit a notarized affidavit stating that the appointive barangay official concerned is not related up to the dourth degree of consanguinity, or of affinity, to the appointing punong barangay.

           

Finally, those who have completed their term of office prior to effectivity date of CSC Resolution No. 1200865 last August 1 shall have two years from the said date or July 31, 2014 to file their application for the grant of BOE.