BACOLOD City – The city council adjusted the 2018 fund of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) from P33.957 million to P146.457 million.
The budget adjustment was approved during the city council’s regular session last week.
Councilor Caesar Distrito, chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod committee on appropriations and finance, said the P112.5-million additional fund was sourced from the city’s 2018 budget.
Of the total amount, P63 million was allocated for the Quick Response Fund, which can only be used if Bacolod is placed under a state of calamity.
The budget adjustment was primarily done to fund the purchase of additional equipment for the CDRRMO.
The city is eyeing to buy two brand new ambulances, two 10-wheeler rescue vehicles and a backhoe loader for the CDRRMO amounting to about P23.5 million, Distrito said.
Other allocations will be for the flood control/storm surge mitigation program (P3.8 million), construction/rehabilitation of evacuation centers at Villa Esperanza in Barangay Tangub and Kaisahan in Barangay Sum-ag (P5 million), shoreline protection program (P8 million), construction/improvement of drainage systems (P10 million), dengue outbreak and prevention program (P3 million), emergency stockpiling of food and non-food supplies for calamity victims (P1.2 million), and establishment of hybrid weather monitoring system and other community based early warning system (P1 million)./PN
