PALO, Leyte – The P1 million local government support fund (LGSF) for this town as awarded by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) after it was given the seal of good housekeeping award, will be used for the improvement of its public market.
This was disclosed by Mayor Remedios “Matin” Petilla in an interview.
As the center of their local economy, Petilla said that they decided to use the assistance in the improvement of their market as it is one of the basis of their local economy, if it is improving or not.
“It will be used for the market improvement because we get and buy the foods that we eat from there, it would be a great health hazard for us if the source of foods is dirty,” Petilla explained.
LGSF is a support fund to LGUs to augment the internal revenue allotment (IRA) of local government units that decreased in 2011 due to the low revenue collections in 2009 and their reward for having fully complied with the full disclosure policy of their transactions which is being enforced by the DILG and the Commission on Audit.
The funding from the DILG is to be used by local government units for projects that should benefit their constituents.
Among those projects include rural electrification, local roads connecting to national roads, local economic enterprises, flood control and drainage and to priority projects of the national government like construction school rooms, birthing or health centers and water supply and sanitation system, among others.
Palo is one of the 35 local government units in the region that was included in the third batch of LGUs that qualified for the LGSF.
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