Resuello’s Liberality Makes Him Popular Among the Kapitans

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

BASISTA, Pangasinan – The reason most of the thirteen village chiefs support the young mayor’s reelection here because they can ask any infrastructure project from his office that amount to one million pesos.

“Lahat ng labing tatlong barangay nag allocate kami ng P1 million worth of projects. So every year tumataas ang IRA (internal revenue allotment from the national government- Editor). P1 million worth of project depende na sa Kapitan kung ano ang gusto nila. Next year ano ang mga gusto nila: Concreting, construction of the barangay halls, gusto nila ng (inaudible)? Ang gusto nila automatic iyan. Improvement of the day care center basta kung ano ang pangangailangan nila kami mag a-allocate kami ng funds sa kanila. Laking tulong ngayon bukod sa pondo,” Mayor JR Resuello stressed in the vernacular to this writer.

The Mandanas Ruling, according to Resuello, will play a lot next year to the development of the 13 villages.

BASISTA MAYOR JR Resuello (right, photo) poses in a friendly posterity with his May 2022 re-election mayoralty rival’s Edgardo Tagum.

The Ruling affirmed by the Supreme Court in 2018 and confirmed with finality in 2019 dictated that the IRA of the local government units (LGU) in towns and provinces are programmed to increase by 55 percent in the 2022 national budget, reaching Php1.08 trillion or 4.8 percent of the country’s gross domestic product compared to 3.5 percent of GDP in 2021.

The chief executive said that even the health services of this fourth class town in central Pangasinan benefited by his sound financial management and now buttressed by the Mandanas Ruling where the coffer of the local government unit will swell by almost half yearly.

“Nagkaroon kami na encourage lahat ng mga half ng suweldo dito ni full namin kasi kawawa naman”.

Resuello told Northern Watch Newspaper that his municipality’s internal revenue allotments in years 2021 and 2022 are P109,558,591.00 and P156,673,690.00, respectively.

The LGU serves 37, 679 residents (PSA 2020).

The total annual appropriations in 2021 and 2022 are P120, 158, 591.00 and P167, 673, 690.00, respectively. It is an increase of more than P47 million.

 Resuello is being challenged by Edgardo Tagum for the mayorship here in the May 9, 2022 election.

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