BATAOIL IN DISTRICT CONSULTATIVE FORUM

Representative Leopoldo Bataoil (2^nd District, Pangasinan) (1st row, blue polo shirt) poses with regional, provincial, and municipal heads of government departments and agencies like the Departments of Social Welfare & Development, Education, Public Works, Health, and Commission on Higher Education at the function hall of the President’s Hotel in Lingayen, Pangasinan. The meeting held last May 30 was about the proper distribution of the P70 million priority development and assistance funds (PDAF) this year of the solon where the national government allocated it to government bodies after the Supreme Court struck early this year as illegal to be used for the personal discretion of members of congress.MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA