Baguio okays 7 more barangay 2023 budgets

By Gaby B. Keith

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin Magalong ratified separate city council measures granting favorable review to the budgets of seven barangays in the Summer Capital for 2023 pursuant to pertinent provisions of the Local Government Code of 1991, as amended.
    Resolution no. 584, series of 2023, grants favorable review to the budgets of Santo Tomas Proper and Sta. Escolastica Village barangays while resolution no. 598, series of 2023, does the same for Honeymoon-Holyghost, Fort del Pilar, South Central Aurora Hill, Malcolm Square, and Middle Quirino Hill barangays.
    The City Budget Officer forwarded for review of the local legislature the above-mentioned preliminary reviewed annual and supplemental barangay budgets for calendar year 2023.
    In separate 2nd indorsements, the august body’s committee on barangay affairs recommended favorable review of said barangay budgets.
    Both approved resolutions also order the return of the barangay budgets to the City Budget Office for implementation.