“WHY THE delay? These more than 1,000 people working in 33 barangays in Angeles City are the frontliners in public service and yet, they don’t get what they deserve.”
So cried Councilor Jay Sangil as he enjoined the city government to “immediately release” the month-delayed salaries of barangay health workers, nutrition scholars and service point officers working in different villages here.
In a resolution, Sangil “urged” Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno and the city treasurer to “explain in writing” the failure of the city government to release the salaries of the workers. With no threat of administrative sanctions should the mayor and the treasurer fail to do so as a proviso though.
The Nepomuceno administration is fast gaining a sordid reputation, okay, notoriety, as a bad payer.
It is not only the so-called “job-order” workers that weep over unpaid wages. Regular employees at the city hall also have their share of delayed pay.
Indeed, the regularity of delay – could not resist the oxymoron there – in the payment of salaries already earned is storied in the Blueboy administration.
In December 2008, some 3,200 city employees – 1,200 permanent, contractual, casual and 2000 job order – complained of not having received their pay for the period of November 16-30, 2008.
Which moved Vice Mayor Vicky Vega Cabigting to lambaste the city government: “Bumili ng madaming sasakyan, mga baril, milyon ang nire-reimburse na meals at mga ghost employees, tapos hindi mapasweldo ang mga empleyado? (They were able to buy vehicles, guns and reimbursed millions for meals and ghost employees but they could not pay the employees their salaries)”
It is not only the city hall employees that do not get their right due on time.
The Kalangitan sanitary landfill in Capas, Tarlac had to stop accepting the garbage of Angeles City after its unpaid dues skyrocketed to some P64 million. How – despite an annual budget of some P1 billion – the city government could ever fail to meet its obligation for such a critical item as waste disposal only Blueboy and his bright boys in the city council could answer.
Unpaid workers. Unpaid garbage debt. And the Blueboy administration still managed to wangle a P812.6-million loan from the Philippine Veterans Bank for the construction of a sports complex. There indeed is some question of mispriorities, if not irrationalities, there.
The sports complex is “a seasonal infrastructure project (that) will put the welfare of the people in danger and disadvantaged position.” So rightly postulated a resolution of the Liga ng mga Barangay, with now mayoralty aspirant Tony Mamac of Balibago spearheading it.
“The city is already deeply indebted and resorting to another loan will tie up the government budget in monthly amortizations that will sacrifice basic delivery of public service…The city is suffering from various socio-economic problems that need to be addressed comprehensively such as the lack of medicines and full-time doctors at the Ospital Ning Angeles (ONA), need for more school buildings, public cemetery, low cost housing for the homeless and so many others…” The resolution argued.
A sense of propriety exhibited by the village chiefs there, and the abject lack of it in the Nepomuceno administration.
Estafador? No, not yet at least.
Mal pagador, si!
Steeped in the Castilian lengua with his studies en la Universidad Real de Madrid, Senor Don Carmelo, hijo de Don Rafael, could have called thus the city government de la pueblo de Angeles.
Sin verguenza!
So cried Councilor Jay Sangil as he enjoined the city government to “immediately release” the month-delayed salaries of barangay health workers, nutrition scholars and service point officers working in different villages here.
In a resolution, Sangil “urged” Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno and the city treasurer to “explain in writing” the failure of the city government to release the salaries of the workers. With no threat of administrative sanctions should the mayor and the treasurer fail to do so as a proviso though.
The Nepomuceno administration is fast gaining a sordid reputation, okay, notoriety, as a bad payer.
It is not only the so-called “job-order” workers that weep over unpaid wages. Regular employees at the city hall also have their share of delayed pay.
Indeed, the regularity of delay – could not resist the oxymoron there – in the payment of salaries already earned is storied in the Blueboy administration.
In December 2008, some 3,200 city employees – 1,200 permanent, contractual, casual and 2000 job order – complained of not having received their pay for the period of November 16-30, 2008.
Which moved Vice Mayor Vicky Vega Cabigting to lambaste the city government: “Bumili ng madaming sasakyan, mga baril, milyon ang nire-reimburse na meals at mga ghost employees, tapos hindi mapasweldo ang mga empleyado? (They were able to buy vehicles, guns and reimbursed millions for meals and ghost employees but they could not pay the employees their salaries)”
It is not only the city hall employees that do not get their right due on time.
The Kalangitan sanitary landfill in Capas, Tarlac had to stop accepting the garbage of Angeles City after its unpaid dues skyrocketed to some P64 million. How – despite an annual budget of some P1 billion – the city government could ever fail to meet its obligation for such a critical item as waste disposal only Blueboy and his bright boys in the city council could answer.
Unpaid workers. Unpaid garbage debt. And the Blueboy administration still managed to wangle a P812.6-million loan from the Philippine Veterans Bank for the construction of a sports complex. There indeed is some question of mispriorities, if not irrationalities, there.
The sports complex is “a seasonal infrastructure project (that) will put the welfare of the people in danger and disadvantaged position.” So rightly postulated a resolution of the Liga ng mga Barangay, with now mayoralty aspirant Tony Mamac of Balibago spearheading it.
“The city is already deeply indebted and resorting to another loan will tie up the government budget in monthly amortizations that will sacrifice basic delivery of public service…The city is suffering from various socio-economic problems that need to be addressed comprehensively such as the lack of medicines and full-time doctors at the Ospital Ning Angeles (ONA), need for more school buildings, public cemetery, low cost housing for the homeless and so many others…” The resolution argued.
A sense of propriety exhibited by the village chiefs there, and the abject lack of it in the Nepomuceno administration.
Estafador? No, not yet at least.
Mal pagador, si!
Steeped in the Castilian lengua with his studies en la Universidad Real de Madrid, Senor Don Carmelo, hijo de Don Rafael, could have called thus the city government de la pueblo de Angeles.
Sin verguenza!
