Tambuling Batangas Publication August 01-07, 2018 Issue

BALITA August 1-7, 2018 With IRA Victory, Gov. Mandanas calls for Amendment of 2019 National Budget Ipinaglaban ng Batangueño. Pakinabang ng bawat Filipino. With the budget increase that all local government units in the country are set to receive with the IRA Petition’s Supreme Court win, more projects for basic services that focus on Education, Agriculture, Health, Livelihood and Social Welfare, among others, (including those for barangay volunteers and senior citizens) can be undertaken soon thanks to the initiative of Gov. Dodo Mandanas, who took up the cudgels for all LGUs in the struggle for a fair share from national taxes. Batangas Capitol PIO ASEAN Conference and Expo on Disaster Management and Climate Change, idinaos sa Batangas OPISYAL na binuksan sa larangan ng akademya ang Adaptive Capacity-building and Technology Innovation for Occupational Hazards and National disaster (ACTION) Center at Disaster Resiliency Education for Adoptation and Mitigation (DREAM) Academy sa Batangas State University- Pablo Borbon Main Campus sa Lungsod ng Batangas kasabay ng pagbubukas ng tatlong araw na Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Conference and Exposition on Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation (ACEDRMCCA) mula July 25- 27, 2018. Ang public and official unveiling ng dalawang disaster centers ay pinamunuan nina Department of National Defense Undersecretary and National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Executive Director Ricardo B. Jalad; Batangas Governor Hermilando I. Mandanas; Batangas State University President, Dr. Tirso A. Ronquillo; Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Joselito M. Castro; at, Office of the Civil Defense – Rehabilitation and Recovery Management Service Director Edgar Posadas. Sinaksihan din ito ng mga delegado mula sa ASEAN at East Asian Regions na kinabibilangan Batangas... Inspirational Talk, Exercise Training at PWD Got Talent Search. Ayon naman kay Mr. Adante, sa tulong ng kanilang samahan, nakapagpadala sila ng mga paninda gaya ng Salabat mula sa bayan ng Cuenca, tsinelas mula nina Associate Professor Min- Hao Wu, Director ng Science and Technology Center for Disaster Prevention – National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Dr. Nor Eliza Alias, Member ng Climate Change Research Group ng Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Prof. Chien-Yuan Chen ng National Chiayi University-Taiwan; at Mr. Takanori Zemmoto ng Japan International Cooperation Agency. Taglay ang temang “Converging with the ASEAN Community in Managing Disaster Risk and Climate Change for a Resilient Community,” napapanahon ang pagtitipon ng mga disaster managers ng ASEAN Region at Batangas Province dahil sa pag-oobserba ng Pilipinas ng National Disaster Resiliency Month sa buwan ng Hulyo. Layunin ng ACEDRMCCA 2018 na magkaroon ng daan ang mga disaster risk managers, personnel, researchers at academicians na talakayin ang mga lumalabas na isyu sa klima, mga polisiyang internasyunal at lokal na tumatalakay sa disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Binalangkas din sa konperensiya ang mga solusyon at epektibong aplikasyon ng teknolohiya at siyensya ukol sa climate change at pagkakaroon ng propesyunal na pakikipag- ugnayan at inter-aksyon ng mga lokal at international na disaster practitioners sa ASEAN. Sa pagbubukas ng ACTION Center at DREAM Academy sa Batangas State University, inaasahang magiging kabalikat ito ng lalawigan na hubugin ang mga susunod na henerasyon ng mga mahuhusay na Professional Disaster Managers sa pamamagitan ng ekspertong mga kaalaman mula sa malawakang pagsasaliksik at pagtuturo mula sa Innovation in Advance Computing and Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction. S a m a n t a l a n g , huhubugin naman sa pamamagitan ng akademya sa DREAM Academy ang mga nagnanais na sumailalim sa Master’s Degree In Disaster Risk Management at Diploma in Risk Reduction Management na handog ng Batangas State Univesity. Bukod sa mga isinagawang forum and workshops, ipinakita rin ng Batangas Disaster Response Personnel ang kanilang kahandaan at kapabilidad sa isinagawang Emergency Response Demonstration sa harap ng mga lokal na delegado at ASEAN counterparts ng mga ito. / Edwin V. Zabarte- Batangas PIO mula sa pahina 8 sa Laurel at Dishwashing Liquids mula naman sa bayan ng Alitagtag. Ang mga nasabing produkto ay tulong, aniya, para sa karagdagang kikitain ng itinayong booth sa BatMC. S a m a n t a l a , naniniwala naman ang Batangas Medical Center na sa ganitong paraan ay makakatulong sila upang maipakita sa komunidad ang mga natatanging kontribusyon at dedikasyon ng mga Persons with Disabilities. – Mark Jonathan M. Macaraig – Batangas Capitol PIO THE proposed ₱3.75 Trillion National Budget for 2019 should be amended to implement the July 3, 2018 Supreme Court (SC) decision on the automatic release of the Internal Revenue Allot- ment (IRA), according to its lead petitioner, Governor Hermilando I. Mandanas of the Province of Batangas. Gov. Mandanas claimed that in implementing the SC decision, the IRA of the Prov- inces, Cities, Municipalities, and Barangays for 2019 should be increased by approximately ₱200 Billion. Based on the SC decision, the collections of the Bureau of Customs (BOC), including tariffs, customs duties, value-added taxes (VAT), documentary stamp taxes (DST), and excise taxes should be included in the IRA computation, which was not done by the Depart- ment of Budget and Management (DBM) in computing for the 2019 IRA. The SC also confirmed that the Local Government Units (LGUs) – Provinces, Cities, Mu- nicipalities, and Barangays – have not been receiving what they should have legally received from 1992 up to the present. “The total accumulated differential has already reached approximately ₱1.5 Trillion. The collections of the BOC of the national taxes were not included in the 1992 up to the present com- putation of IRA”, Mandanas said. The reimbursement of the back IRA has to be made, in consultation with the LGUs and the Development & Budget Co- ordination Committee (DBCC). DBCC is composed of the DBM, the Department of Finance (DOF), National Economic and Develop- ment Authority (NEDA), Office of the President (OP), and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). As lead petitioner, Gov. Mandanas saw three possible ways on how the National Government can implement the SC decision. The national government can bor- row money, recast the National Budget, or do a combination of both. Mandanas is advocating the second option, recasting the 2019 National Budget, wherein there will be no change in the to- tal amount, there will be no need to borrow, and, at the same time, fully implement the existing laws on Local Autonomy. In his letter to DBM Secretary Benjamin Diokno, Man- danas stated that, “…this can even improve the credit rating of the Philippines, and definitely without “damaging” the National Govern- ment.” Briefly, the basic services like Agriculture, Health, Social Welfare, and others, which have been devolved to the LGUs per the Local Government Code, can now be funded by the National Govern- ment, through increasing the IRA and correspondingly reducing the appropriation of involved National Line Agencies that still handle the funds of devolved basic services. This IRA mandate will enable the LGUs to acquire, with their own funds, their own CCTVs, ambulances, medicines, CT scans, MRIs, health centers, evacuation centers, barangay halls, farm- to-market roads, bridges, and many others, without having to request funding from the National Government so as to execute and implement these devolved basic services. Gov. Mandanas believes that this approach will promote ef- ficient, economical, and expedient governance. “This is the start of true Federalism,” said Gov. Man- danas. “Strengthening the local autonomy is the essential element of true Federalism”. Katrin Buted – Batangas Capitol Poultry Farms sa Bayan ng San Jose, Sumailalim sa Sample Collection and Avian Influenza Screening LIMANG araw na Sample Collection and Avian Influenza Screening for Bureau of Animal Industry Accreditation of Poultry Farms ang isinulong sa bayan ng San Jose Batangas sa pangunguna ng Provincial Veterinary Office (ProVet) at sa pakikipag ugnayan nito sa local veterinarians, na isinagawa noong ika-9 ng Hulyo at hanggang ika-13 ng Hulyo taong kasalukuyan. Noong nakaraang buwan ng Hunyo unang nagkaroon ng nasabing aktibidad ang ProVet sa bayan ng San Jose kung saan ay tinatayang 55 farms na ang nabibisita nila dito hanggang sa kasalukuyan. Nagsasagawa sila ng sample blood collection mula sa 35 na mga manok sa bawat Poultry Farm upang malaman kung pasok ito sa Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) Accreditation at matukoy kung may Avian Influenza at oropharyngeal ang mga manok. Matapos ang sample collection ay ipapasa ito ng ProVet sa mga chicken raisers na sila naming napag-atasan na magdala nito sa BAI. Ang mga dugo na nakuha sa sample collection ay dadaan sa mga test laboratory, disease diagnostic, at iba pa. sa kasalukuyang pagsusuri ay negatibo ang naging resulta nito at pasok sa accreditation kaya maaari nang mailabas ang mga produkto sa labas ng lalawigan. – Jean Alysa C. Guerra – Batangas Capitol PIO

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