Batac council passes P440M 2016 budget

By Dominic B. dela Cruz

Staff reporter

Batac City—The Sangguniang Panlungsod here unanimously passed the budget ordinance for 2016.

The budget, totaling P440, 810, 610.68, was passed during a special session held on March 2.

The said ordinance will still need approval from Batac Mayor Jeffrey Jubal Nalupta after which it would be transmitted to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan for review.

With 2016 already three months old, the Batac government has been making do with a reenacted budget.

The approved 2016 budget saw an increase of at least P33 million from last year’s budget. Last year’s budget was P407,689,319.80

During the budget deliberation, it was shown that the city government has achieved the biggest business tax collection with P27.2 million. The real property tax collection was pegged at P7.5 million.

The total collection from local sources is P64,251,000.

For the external sources, Batac’s shares from the national government, the excise tax and the Philippines Gaming Corp. and Philippine Charity Sweepstake Office is P343,090,481.

Income from the Batac public market totals P26,110,000 while the slaughterhouse yields an income of P5,120,00.

Batac Vice Mayor and council presiding officer Ronald Allan M. Nalupta said they conducted as series of regular session to accommodate member of the local finance committee and department heads to defend their respective budgets.

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