PB okays incentives for Capitol employees, other projects

Provincial Budget Officer Danilo Rodas tackles the incentives for Capitol employees during the PB session on Monday. (CDN PHOTO/LITO TECSON)

THE Cebu Provincial Board (PB) has approved a P51-million Supplemental Budget (SB) 5 for the provincial government.

The bulk of the amount is for the collective negotiation agreement (CNA) incentives for all Capitol employees and elected officials as of Dec. 31, 2015.

Rodas also explained that officials and employees hired within 2016 are not eligible to accept the incentive including the new elected PB members.

Each employee and elected official is set to receive P15,000, which was already announced by Gov. Hilario Davide III during the province’s 447th founding anniversary program last Saturday.

“This is not an anniversary bonus but an incentive. It’s just announced during August 6 as a practice. This is a CNA incentive for the cost-cutting measures and systems improvements of the province,” said Provincial Budget Officer Danilo Rodas during the PB’s session last Monday.

He said the actual anniversary bonus is given every five years.

Former PB members and those part of the 13th Sangguniang Panlalawigan are also entitled to the P15,000 incentive.

Some items included in the approved budget were: development assistance to cities, municipalities or barangays (P6 million); additional prison cells and rehabilitation or repair of facilities of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (P6 million); and asphalting, improvement of driveways and parking area, stone-masonry slop protection at the Capitol compound (P5 million).

The SB5 also includes items for the hauling and disposal services of wastes (P3.5 million); needle incinerators (P1.29 million); rainwater catchment facilities and water tanks (P700,000); materials recovery facilities (P3.65 million); and terminal information display system for the Cebu South Bus Terminal (P3 million).