Talisay approves first supplemental budget

CEBU, Philippines - The Talisay City council has approved its first supplemental budget for 2012 amounting to P18,015,100.38 to finance other priority projects that were not accommodated in the city’s regular budget. 

Councilor Rodi Cabigas, chairman of the committee on budget and appropriation, said the approval was done for the first and final reading. 

The biggest allocation, which is P6.2 million, will go to maintenance and other operating expenses. It will cover the payments for electricity, repairs and maintenance of motor vehicles, the confidential and intelligence expenses, gas, oil and lubricant expenses, and other supply expenses.

Cabigas said the city will purchase closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, which will be installed in some public areas in the city. 

The city has appropriated P4.5 million.

However, only P140,000 was appropriated for the terminal and monetization for city hall employees. 

Cabigas said the monetization of vacation and sick leaves of regular employees has been postponed to next year. 

Earlier, the employees expressed their wish to avail of the monetization of vacation and sick leave credits as stipulated in the Joint Memorandum Circular of the Department of Budget and Management and the Civil Service Commission C1-1991.

He said they already asked the city budget office to appropriate an amount commensurate to the 50 percent vacation and sick leaves of regular employees in the 2013 annual budget. 

Another appropriation for the supplemental budget was the P5.6-million capital outlay, the P5.8 million in non-expenditures expenses, and P357,225 for personal services.

About P3 million was allocated for security services and about P1.2 million for the construction and rehabilitation of local roads and bridges and the purchase of engineering equipment, among others.

The supplemental budget of local government units is approved by the Sangguniang Bayan/Panlungsod/Panlalawigan, when there are derived savings and available resources that need to be appropriated for unfunded programs and projects in the regular budget.  - THE FREEMAN