Members of the Sangguniang Panglungsod ng Dabaw today passed a resolution to enact an ordinance granting P11-Million-financial assistance to the municipalities of Sorsogon and Oriental Mindoro which were hardest hit by typhoon Nona.
The ordinance was acted immediately by the city councilors following the special session sought by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte for coming up with a legal basis to provide financial help to areas where typhoon Nona wreaked havoc.
Councilor Danilo Dayanghirang, chair of the committee on finance said the ordinance authorizes Mayor Duterte to use a portion of the 30 percent quick-response fund out of the five percent disaster risk reduction and management calamity fund of the city government of Davao for calendar year 2015 in the total amount of P11-Million to extend assistance to the victims of typhoon Nona.
The typhoon hit the municipalities of Barcelona, Bulan, Bulusan, Casiguran, Castilla, Donsol, Gubat, Irosin, Uban, Magallanes, Matnog, Pilar, Getoguias, Sta. Magdalena and Sorsogon City.
He said the assistance is also intended to the seven municipalities of Oriental Mindoro namely, Baco, Calapan, Gloria, Mauian, Pinamalayan, Pola and Victoria.
Dayanghirang said based on the ordinance every town cited will receive P500,000 each subject to the existing government budgeting, accounting and auditing rules and regulation of the Department of Budget and Management, the Commission on Audit and the Procurement Law.
“We simply came out with a legal basis for the mayor to extend help to the towns and provinces placed under the state of natural calamity due to the typhoon,” he said. (PIA 11-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines)
