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Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Prov'l board questions additional abolition of posts
By Lizanilla J. Amarga
*But staffer says moves in compliance with DBM findings
*However PB dad says they never allotted budget for additional positions
WITHOUT any approval from Misamis Oriental Governor Oscar Moreno and the Provincial Board (PB), acting Provincial Budget Officer Elmer Wabe reportedly "created" 20 plantilla positions and "abolishing" 18 other positions allocated for the Provincial Attorney's Office and Natural Resources and Environmental Services.
Several PB members made the claim during their regular session Monday as they moved for a three-committee investigation on Wabe believing that the latter has no authority to create or abolish any Provincial Government position.
Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro failed to contact Wabe's side as of press time Monday but a budget staff member who requested anonymity defended Wabe saying, "Wabe is only to follow their orders."
Another staff member said Wabe's letter was meant only to comply with the DBM-10's findings and that there might just be the possibility of a "miscommunication" between Wabe and the PB members.
Wabe wrote the PB a letter saying that the regional office of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) 10 has submitted its findings on its review of the Annual Budget Civil Year (CY) 2005.
The paragraph 16 of the DBM-10 findings states: "The creation and abolition of the following positions are subject to a resolution by the PB."
It then listed the creation of 20 new positions under the General Services Offices (GSO).
Joint investigation
It also stated how nine positions under the Attorney's Office and 10 under the Natural Resources and Environmental Services "appear in the Personnel Schedule of the Annual Budget for CY 2004 but are no longer found in the CY 2005 Personnel Schedule."
"In compliance to the above-mentioned deficiencies, the undersigned would like to request the Honorable Members of the Provincial Board to ratify an Ordinance as an addendum to Appropriation Ordinance Number 716-2004, creating and abolishing the abovementioned positions," Wabe's letter to the PB reads.
PB Majority Floor Leader Oliver Actub and PB member Norris Babiera voiced their surprise upon receiving Wabe's letter adding that the latter can neither create nor abolish plantilla positions in the Provincial Government.
"It would seem that there are now three equal branches of the provincial--the Office of the Governor, the PB and the Provincial Budget Office," Actub said in the dialect.
Babiera said that they have now assigned three committees to jointly investigate Wabe on this issue.
"Kay dili mana mahimo ang gusto ni Wabe (What Wabe is asking is something we cannot do)," he said adding that the committees on good government, rules and budget, ways and means will all be meeting to investigate Wabe.
Allotted positions
Minority Floor Leader Butch Alejo Olano explained further to reporters how they did not allocate any actual budget for the nine Attorney's Office and 10 Natural Resources and Environmental Services in the 2004 Annual Budget Ordinance.
He said it was only in the 2005 Annual Budget Ordinance that they have allocated actual budget for these 19 positions but that they have not created the 20 GSO positions that is contained in Wabe's letter.
"Karon natingala mi nganong nasingit ning 20 ka posisyon sa GSO unya giwala na hinoon ang kadtong among gi-allocate-tan namo nga mga posisyon (Now we are so surprise why these 20 GSO positions were included and then the 19 positions to which we have allocated actual budget were abolished)," he said.
Actub, Babiera and Olano believe that Wabe should be questioned on the creation of the 20 GSO positions and the abolition of the 19 other positions they have alloted for the Attorney's Office as well as the Natural Resources and Environmental Services in the 2004 Annual Budget Ordinance.
"Dili mana mahimo nga ang Budget Office mao na hinoon ang magbuot-buot that is an insult to the governor and the Provincial Board," Olano said.
(June 7, 2005 issue)
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