By Franklin P. Gumapon
PAGADIAN CITY – Member-agencies of the Regional Development Council (RDC)-9’s
Development Administration Committee (DevAdCom) have converged here Tuesday for
their first quarter regular meeting presided by Regional Director Paisal O.
Abutazil of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-9.
The group tackled the
2015 Annual Investment Plan (AIP) of the regional line agencies (RLA) and local
government units (LGUs) belonging to the DevAdCom to be endorsed to the RDC.
To ensure a smooth
conduct of the committee’s subsequent meetings, the member-agencies were also requested
to submit their respective agenda for inclusion in the meeting’s order of
business.
The DevAdCom
member-agencies that have already prepared their 2015 investment programs are
DILG with an appropriation of P4,575,000, Bureau of Jail Management and
Penology (BJMP) – P23,750, Police Regional Office (PRO) – P7,980,000 and Parole
and Probation Administration (PPA) – P1,721,500.
The LGUs of Zamboanga
del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, Ipil municipality and Pagadian City have also
submitted their 2015 investment programs amounting to P2,997,395,944 broken
down as follows: Zamboanga del Norte – P2,969,662,794; Zamboanga del Sur –
P417,900; Ipil – P13,000,000; and Pagadian City – P15,000.
All these programs are
subject to RDC review and deliberation.
In the same meeting,
Engr. Leoncito S. Manuel, branch manager of the Government Service Insurance System
(GSIS) – Pagadian City, has given some updates of GSIS programs and services.
He disclosed that beginning July 2013, the GSIS had lifted the suspension of
loan privileges of government employees working in agencies that are delayed or
deficient in their premium payments.
“The GSIS under the new
administration is now more consultative, more transparent and more
member-focused,” he said.
Survivorship benefit
for gainfully employed beneficiaries has also been restored by the GSIS on the
belief that a “pension is an earned right and not a privilege.”
Finally, DevAdCom
members also endorsed to the RDC the Family Development Session Guidelines
(FDSG) as proposed by the Commission on Population (POPCOM)-9.
DevAdCom’s next meeting
will be on the second week of May in Dipolog City. (PIA9)