City LGU appealed to DepED to include its city schools division budget to the GAA2011 and every year thereafter.

By PJTremedal, BNDMisOC-CIB/OCM

Oroquieta City- The local government of Oroquieta City earnestly request DepED thru its former Secretary Mona Dumlao Valisno but unfortunately replaced by now, Secretary Bro Armin A. Luistro to facilitate the inclusion of all expenses of the City Schools Division of the city to the national government with the General Appropriations Act for Calendar year 2011.

The said letter request from the city mayor also seek the help and support and endorsement from the 1^st District Representative, Congressman Jorge T. Almonte , The Regional Director of DepED 10, and the favorable intercession of His Excellency President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III to continue the effort of the city government in promoting quality education.

It may be recalled that, the City Government of Oroquieta despite of its very limited resources, exhausted all means to establish its own City Schools Division and in Year 2003 it was in an Ad Interim Status and finally became a full-fledged Division on January 31, 2007.

The local government allocated appropriations every year after for personal services, maintenance and other operating expenses and its capital outlay sourced out from local funds, and aside from other instances, the School Division has urgent financial needs, The City Government regularly spend so much amount to address its financial needs.

For this year 2010, the city government allocated 1.6-M.

With the said letter request to the Department of Education, the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Oroquieta City adopted and approved SP Resolution No. 2010-08-402 in support to the city mayor’s earnest appeal to include the City Schools Division of Oroquieta Budget and other resources to be included in the General Appropriation Act for CY 2011.

With the new set of the national government administration under His Excellency President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, the city government of Oroquieta in behalf of its people, that there is now a full-fledged city schools division, it is favorably hoped that the division’s regular budget will be included and incorporated to the General Appropriation Act and the 2011 national budget and to every year thereafter, to advocate and promote quality education to this part of Northern Mindanao.

The city government now under City Mayor Jason P. Almonte has continued its predecessors commitment, not because that the former city mayor now Congressman Jorge T. Almonte, the father of Mayor Jason but because his own agenda to continue the pursue education for he believes that education is the solution of today’s many social problem.