Budget .5K not 1M

San Pedro Chair Karel Carbonilla said it is Five Hundred Thousand Pesos not One Million as previously known. This was when this morning at Bliss, the Observer asked her for clarification on the budget of the ongoing construction of the barangay hall. Carbonilla said the amount won't be able to finish the project and this means additional budget for the congressman to appropriate. The Barangay in its unfinished state will by then just up to the point of getting roofed and nothing more. This will, by that time while waiting for the additional budget, residents may scamper from the rain.

NEW POLICE CHIEF

Initao has another police chief in the person of Senior Inspector Mark Anthony O. Cagalitan. He is from Manticao and a 2007 graduate from the Philippine National Police Academy in Cavite. In IPS last week,he said he assumed office 01 June 2012 after the then Initao Police Stn. Cmdr. Afredo Ortiz left the same date for a new assignment. The new police chief is the fifth in Initao in less than two years, after the longest holder as chief here Elvis Galarroza applied for schooling. When asked why, what's the reason or reasons of the faster turn-over of police chiefs here, he said his predecessor left no comments. On another development, Cagalitan said that the proposed PNP building for Initao, this is on a "first come first-serve basis",and that the regional office determines where the next construction might be.

ORQUILLAS-BEHIND SCHOOL "CREATION"

In his place in Brgy. Apas, Cesar Orquillas said yesterday that it was he who moved heaven and earth for Calacapan High School to be borne. He negotiated with the Governor for its birth so that parents and students from the place, as well as residents from other towns who live near it may find convenience and lesser expense in their pursuit of education. Governor Oscar Moreno, Orquilas said, granted him the amount of Three Hundred Thousand Pesos for the purchase of available land for the school buildings and campus site. And there was the required barangay counterpart of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Pesos which he has known from the Chairman, was put up through borrowing from politicians. Orquillas also said, he talked to the Calacapan Chair and inquired where he got that, he was informed that a would-be SB candidate lent him 100k, with the Fifty Thousand Pesos coming from the LGU.

BARAGAY HALL BUILDING STARTED

The Chairperson of Brgy. San Pedro Karel Carbonilla is true to her word, the new barangay hall is now under construction at Bliss, Purok 3 as shown by hired workers making it piece by piece and it really looks like a building yet in progress. Carbonilla said the congressional funded two story building was planned and appropriated by the district 2 Solon, the Hon. Bambe Emano in the amount of one million pesos. The building is said getting completed in two-three months time.