Mandaue City Hall budget less by P300M next year

Luigi Quisumbing

With no definite drainage and traffic master plan in sight, Mandaue City will have P300 million less in 2017 than this year’s budget of P2.6 billion.

Mayor Luigi Quisumbing’s budget, which the City Council deliberated on last Friday, is lower due to infrastructure being dealt on a private-public partnership next year.

With no drainage master plan, Quisumbing said they will acquire an amphibious dredger to conduct massive dredging on the waterways.

He also proposed P10 million for the antidrug programs and activities.

The mayor proposed P6.7 million as subsidy for the police under the peace and order program and P1.969 million for the equipment of the military and police.

He said if the city can bid out the drainage and traffic master plan by the end of the year, they expect the plan to be completed in May or April next year.

“We want to be able to complete the plan before we embark on a massive infrastructure spending initiative,” Quisumbing said.

For now, the biggest appropriation of the proposed budget is for the general fund with a proposed allocation of P2.083 billion, which is lower than this year’s budget of P2.4 billion.

The proposed budget also included an allocation of P112.4 million for the City Public Market, P10.3 million for the slaughterhouse, P42.3 million for the Mandaue City Hospital and P6.2 million for the City Sports Complex.

Quisumbing proposed P140.695 million for the development projects to be funded by the 20 percent of the city’s Internal Revenue Allotment.

Based on the general fund, P1.1 billion was allocated for “non-office.”

It was followed by P173.2 million for the City General Services Office and P137.8 million for the City Engineers Office.