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By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff reporter
Laoag
City—The city government’s executive branch
has submitted its proposed budget for 2015 to the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
The proposed budget for next
year totals P576,074,622.31.
City budget officer Carlina
Cumigad said the proposed budget is specifically categorized as P461,051,436.27
for the general fund and P115,023,186.04 for economic enterprises.
The proposed budget is
expected to be culled from local revenue sources as estimated by the city
treasury office and the city’s internal revenue allotment share. City officials
estimate the IRA share for Laoag next year to be P340,269,755, an increase of
P42 million from this year’s IRA share of P297,943,386.
Ms. Cumigad added that
compared to the current budget, next year’s proposed budget would be less by
P15 million. She cited the unrealized revenue projection for the Laoag City
General Hospital as the main reason for the decrease.
The budget officer is hopeful
the city council would pass the budget before the end of 2014.
Should the budget not be
passed in time, Ms. Cumigad said the city would have a re-enacted budget but
only for the salaries and for miscellaneous and other operating expenses
(MOOEs).
The proposed budget has the
LCGH, engineering, health, mayor’s and general services offices with the
highest allocations.
Meanwhile, Laoag councilor
Shirley O. Sin said she has not received a copy of the proposed annual budget
yet. Ms. Sin is the council’s finance committee chairperson.
She said they need to study
the proposal but added that there may no longer be major discussions since they
were all present during the budget hearing conducted earlier.
Department heads however
would still be required to defend their respective budgets should they be
summoned for questions and clarifications.
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