By BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
Vice governor Ronquillo Tolentino said the accomplishments of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) last year is a vital legislative infrastructure for effective provincial governance of Aklan Governor Carlito Marquez.
In his narrative report, Tolentino declared 2005 as a busy year for the Aklan SP, saying, the legislative council conducted 44 regular sessions and four special sessions and passed 484 resolutions, 55 provincial ordinances and five appropriation ordinances.
"Those resolutions approved by the provincial legislative body were in pursuance of the august body’s legislative priority to be able to smoothly plan and implement programs and projects for the greater benefit of the people of Aklan," Tolentino stressed in his report to Marquez.
One significant resolution gave Marquez the authority to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the local government of Malay for a joint undertaking to solve the garbage crisis in Boracay Island for P1-million financial assistance.
Marquez was also given authority to negotiate and transact with the Philippine National Bank for a P39-million loan to finance the design, development and implementation of a computerized real property tax assessments and collection of the province and with the Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Field Unit and a Foundation to implement the P10-million farm inputs/farm implements program.
The governor also entered a MOA with the Land Bank of the Philippines for a P3-million loan package to finance the farmers on hybrid seed and commercial production and with Aklan Rep. Florencio Miraflores and the DA for the P5-million agricultural development.
NOTEWORTHY ORDINANCES
The legislative council was also credited for the enactments of Provincial Ordinance No. 05-016 creating the Economic Enterprise Development Department (EEDD) and the Provincial Ordinance No. 05-026 establishing the Aklan Rivers Development Council.The council also approved and enacted the P367.688-million annual budget for 2006 under Appropriation Ordinance No. 05-004 and the P199.557-million 2006 budget of EEDD of the provincial government under Appropriation Ordinance No. 05-005.
The SP also approved and enacted supplemental budgets of P107.367-million of the provincial government and approved P68-million budget for projects to be funded under the 20 percent IRA development funds this year.
The legislative body also enacted provincial ordinances on the collection of fees and charges for selected vehicles using the Caticlan Jetty Port as the point of egress and ingress; increasing the tax levies collected from per cubic meter of stones, sand, gravel, earth and other quarry resources; creating the Aklan Provincial Population and Gender Office and fixing the rates for the sale of bidding documents of the provincial government of Aklan. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
Vice governor Ronquillo Tolentino said the accomplishments of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) last year is a vital legislative infrastructure for effective provincial governance of Aklan Governor Carlito Marquez.
In his narrative report, Tolentino declared 2005 as a busy year for the Aklan SP, saying, the legislative council conducted 44 regular sessions and four special sessions and passed 484 resolutions, 55 provincial ordinances and five appropriation ordinances.
"Those resolutions approved by the provincial legislative body were in pursuance of the august body’s legislative priority to be able to smoothly plan and implement programs and projects for the greater benefit of the people of Aklan," Tolentino stressed in his report to Marquez.
One significant resolution gave Marquez the authority to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the local government of Malay for a joint undertaking to solve the garbage crisis in Boracay Island for P1-million financial assistance.
Marquez was also given authority to negotiate and transact with the Philippine National Bank for a P39-million loan to finance the design, development and implementation of a computerized real property tax assessments and collection of the province and with the Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Field Unit and a Foundation to implement the P10-million farm inputs/farm implements program.
The governor also entered a MOA with the Land Bank of the Philippines for a P3-million loan package to finance the farmers on hybrid seed and commercial production and with Aklan Rep. Florencio Miraflores and the DA for the P5-million agricultural development.
NOTEWORTHY ORDINANCES
The legislative council was also credited for the enactments of Provincial Ordinance No. 05-016 creating the Economic Enterprise Development Department (EEDD) and the Provincial Ordinance No. 05-026 establishing the Aklan Rivers Development Council.The council also approved and enacted the P367.688-million annual budget for 2006 under Appropriation Ordinance No. 05-004 and the P199.557-million 2006 budget of EEDD of the provincial government under Appropriation Ordinance No. 05-005.
The SP also approved and enacted supplemental budgets of P107.367-million of the provincial government and approved P68-million budget for projects to be funded under the 20 percent IRA development funds this year.
The legislative body also enacted provincial ordinances on the collection of fees and charges for selected vehicles using the Caticlan Jetty Port as the point of egress and ingress; increasing the tax levies collected from per cubic meter of stones, sand, gravel, earth and other quarry resources; creating the Aklan Provincial Population and Gender Office and fixing the rates for the sale of bidding documents of the provincial government of Aklan. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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