ALIAGA,
Nueva Ecija -- For allegedly refusing to increase the salaries of town officials
and employees, the town mayor here is facing charges of grave misconduct before
the Office of the Ombudsman.
At least
seven councilors of Aliaga town filed on Monday a five-page complaint,
which also accuses Mayor Marcial Vargas of usurpation of legislative functions.
Councilors
Cesar Cajucom, Juanita de Leon, Juanito Martin, Albert Bumanlag, Lourdes Celestino,
AlmarioBernabe and Melody Vegiga said Vargas violated a circular of the
Department of Budget and Management issued on July 2008, which authorizes the
town to adopt salary schedules.
The
Sangguniang Bayan passed a resolution on March 2009 declaring Aliaga town as a
first class municipality based on increase in income and financial capability.
The
complainants said Vargas also refused to implement a budget ordinance passed by
the council.
“Instead
of implementing the salaries of the officials and employees of the municipality
of Aliaga in accordance with a higher salary schedule for a first class
municipality, the respondent directed, implemented and enforced the
compensation in accordance with the basic salary appearing in the salary
schedule for a second class municipality,” Cajucom, chairman of the committee
on finance, budget and appropriation, said.
The
councilors also informed the Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon of their
withdrawal of support to the mayor and his wife Elizabeth, the town’s vice
mayor.
The
parish priest of Aliaga’s Nuestra Señora Delas Saleras also wrote a letter to
Commission on Audit Commissioner Heidi Mendoza urging her to authorize the
town’s resident auditor to check the town’s financial records.
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