Budget allocation

Base on the interview we had with the Head of the Municipality Planning and Development office

Ms. Ana Bustamante. Though the departments were accorded a fixed budget for their every

undertakings which most likely derive from the grand total gross of the local government from the

past administration, the budget allotted for every department shows discrepancy since it depends

on the needs of every department. The municipality devise a calendar of activities which

demonstrates the order of the departments and their activities that will be given priority in terms

of budget percentages. A good example here is the program financing of the health sector in which

the department is allotted a fixed percentage from the budget of the local government of Pateros

(as per Budget Officer Mr. Severino Cuevas). According to the Health Office (the main

implementing office), the project of the Health Department’s “Pateros Health and Social

Awareness Drive 2016” is funded using the 10% of the budget allotted by the Annual Investment

Plan of the LGU to the Health Office, which is calculated in the table below:

Total budget of LGU Php 149, 200, 163. 75

Municipal Health Office Total Budget Php 28,009,031.00

10% Allocation for the Project Php 2,800,903.10