Mandaue Metropolis Mayor Glenn Bercede. | CDN Digital photograph / Mary Rose Sagarino
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – The hiring of 11, 000 staff by the Mandaue Metropolis Authorities was nicely throughout the metropolis’s personnel providers (PS) limitation, Mayor Glenn Bercede stated.
Bercede stated that for this yr alone, the town allotted P938 million for the fee of salaries which is just 20. 87 p.c of the 2025 price range of P4.5 billion.
He stated that the Native Authorities Code of 1991 permits Mandaue Metropolis to allocate 45 p.c of its annual price range for salaries.
Bercede issued the clarification after mayor-elect Thadeo “Jonkie” Ouano introduced his plan to cut back the ‘extreme’ variety of metropolis authorities staff.
Nevertheless, Bercede stated that it stays a prerogative of the incoming mayor to cut back to the town’s manpower. He stated that the identical is predicted when their is a shift of energy in an area authorities.
“Sila naman magazine handle sa siyudad, pwede ra gyud nila kuhaan. Pwede ra man na. Kung kato kang Mayor Jonas kung natan-aw nila nga daghan kaayo pero nakatabang man sa ako’ng opinyon. Ang Purok dili lang man sa Mandaue, efficient man,”
(They are going to now be in-charge of managing the town, they’ll at all times scale back [the number of employees]. In the event that they assume that those that have been employed by Mayor Jonas have been in extra, however for me, I feel in addition they had their contributions [to the city]. The Purok [system] shouldn’t be solely right here in Mandaue, and its efficient.)
Financial savings
Lawyer Sally Malig-on, the top of Ouano’s transition staff and the incoming Metropolis Administrator, stated in an earlier interview that decreasing the town’s workforce would translate to financial savings that the mayor-elect might realign to social providers and the advance of the Mandaue Metropolis Hospital.
Malig-on stated they’re anticipating financial savings of a minimum of P150 million in the event that they scale back the variety of Job Order personnel and people working below the Purok Improvement Workplace (PDO), which he stated have been used as “political machineries” by the outgoing administration within the Might 12 elections.
Bercede defended the hiring of personnel below the PDO, that was created below the management of dismissed mayor Jonas Cortes.
“The Purok Improvement Workplace has been functioning and aiding in information gathering and group administration,” he stated.
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