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City Hall workers to get P10,000 bonus
THE Cebu City Council passed Supplemental Budget 3 amounting to P73.8 million yesterday. This covers the bonus of City Hall’s 5,000 employees for the amount of P10,000, instead of P20,000 as promised by Mayor Michael Rama. Additional bonuses will be released on December 26 and not during the City Hall employees Christmas party on Friday. […]
P4,000 stipend hike for city tanods mulled
December 19, 2012
Barangay tanods may receive something extra next year if Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama’s proposal to raise the city’s counterpart funding for their honoraria gets City Council approval. From P2,000, the city’s counterpart funding will be raised to P4,000 in addition to the honorarium that the city’s 1,6000 tanods are receiving from their barangays, said […]
Rama now wants 3rd supplemental budget
November 16, 2012
CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama yesterday said he will ask the City Council for a third supplemental budget to fund other city obligations before the year ends. There’s enough time to do approve one, he said, but couldn’t specify what items to carry in the new tranche. “First we have to look into the whole […]
Mayor Rama denies cancer rumor
November 6, 2012
Saying he can still “run and shoot”, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama again denied rumors that he had cancer. He told reporters he joined a three-kilometer run a day before his 58th birthday last Oct. 28 and played basketball with friends recently. Rama waved off talk circulating that he suffered prostate cancer, a rumor that […]
Rama raises supplemental budget, seeks council approval
November 4, 2012
AFTER an initial rejection by the Cebu City Council, Mayor Michael Rama submitted anew his proposed supplemental budget 2 and raised the amount from P233 million to P267.7 million or an additional P34 million. “I wish I don’t have to say anything critical. Don’t blame me for what action I will take if they continue […]
Mayor wants to sell idle city gov’t lots for P719 million
October 20, 2012
IF he could have his way in 2013, Mayor Michael Rama would sell city government lots worth over P700 million to fund part of his proposed annual budget. Rama wants to sell the vacant 3.3-hectare Block 27 in the North Reclamation Area which has a market value of P20,000 per square meter. Another is a […]
Next year’s proposed budget for Cebu City pegged at P13 B
October 12, 2012
They received less than half of what they proposed last year. But this didn’t faze the Rama administration in Cebu City Hall from drafting yet another ballpark figure for next year’s budget. The offices of the City Treasurer and City Budget Officer came out with a P13 billion budget next year or P1.2 billion more […]
Rama’s filing of graft case ‘showbiz’ – Tom O
September 20, 2012
THE filing of graft charges by Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama was an “act of desperation” to win next year’s elections, said Rep. Tomas Osmeña of Cebu City’s south district. Osmeña said Rama’s “hakot” crowd and his march from the Capitol Parish church to the Visayas-Ombudsman’s Office on M. Velez Street was all “showbiz.” He […]
Drainage, lighting headline barangay requests
September 12, 2012
DRAINAGE improvement projects, street lighting, traffic systems and solid waste management topped the concerns of 15 Cebu City north district barangays during a consultation with Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama yesterday. The mayor signed a “commitment of support” with the barangay captains who joined the event but said it was still up to the City […]
December 20, 2012
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