Tuesday, October 08, 2002
City helps barangays look for sponsors
By Christine Mae Pelayo
THE City Hovernment is looking for corporate sponsors for the barangays participating in the MassKara Dance Parade.
The barangays need funding support after the City Council slashed by half the financial support they were supposed to receive-from P80,000 to P40,000.
Mayor Luzviminda Valdez said many barangays already spent so much thinking that they will get enough financial assistance from the City Government.
That's why I am helping them look for sponsors, she said.
But Valdez said she is optimistic that the City Council will approve an additional P40,000 financial assistance to the barangays.
I understand that in their resolution, they never closed the possibility to give the barangays more, she said.
The City Council, she said, wants the barangays to submit a program of works for the release of the remaining P40,000.
In a resolution passed last Thursday, they justified the slashing of financial support, saying that during the MassKara Festival 2000, the participating barangays joined the dance parade using mainly their own resources.
They then requested the MassKara Foundation to extend financial assistance to the participating barangays.
Valdez said the street dancers are already prepared and the MassKara Foundation Inc. is set to check their costumes and performance.
I am happy that there are still barangays who participated despite the funding problem, Valdez said. |
