By Mortz
C. Ortigoza
SAN CARLOS
CITY – With more than six hundred million pesos budget for this year, the mayor
here cited that this will happen due to the tax collection target given to them by
the Department of Budget & Management.
Mayor
Joseres Resuelo said that the DBM spiked this year’s local revenues target collection
for this year. He was tasked to collect P120 million so it can have the P500
million Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA).
IRA,
according to the law, is a local government unit’s (LGU) share of revenues from
the Philippine national government. Provinces, independent cities, component
cities, municipalities and barangays each get a separate allotment.
“Ang IRA
namin is 500 million plus ang estimated namin. Ngayon tinaasan kami ng DBM
ginawa nilang P120 million ang estimated local revenue. So umangat ang IRA namin.
Inaangat wala ang quota namin. Kami ang may quota niyan. Ang local revenue
dapat maka collect kami ng minimum na P120 million,”he stressed.
Despite
the low local revenue collection as counterpart to the the IRA, this 86 villages
city received a huge IRA because of the number of its population and the
stretch of its land area.
This city
has a population of 188,571 according to a 2015 census. It is the biggest in
terms of demography in Region-1.
Resuelo said
the biggest budget for this year is allocated to infrastructures like barangay
roads, constructions of facilities like the barangay halls, schools, and
others.
Meanwhile,
the mayor is trying to solve the worsening traffic congestion here through the
improvement of roads especially at the plaza areas.
He said he
could not just accept investors with out fist improving the traffic problem.
“Kusa na
pumapasok ang investors, di na ako nag i-invite. The problem is hindi ko muna
ma-oo-han kasi kailangan ko nang i-fix ang traffic system. Magara ngang
pakingan maraming malls sa area pero ang traffic malala naman”.
Presently,
there are three new malls being built here.
They are
San Carlos Town Center owned by Citi Properties, Inc., The City Mall by Double
Dragon Industries, Inc., and Magic Commercial Center 2.
Resuelo
said the owner of Magic Commercial Center 2, the Lims of Dagupan City, revised its original plan by
expanding it so it could compete with the other two malls that are being built
here.
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