State of the Town Address 2009

Marajaw na bag-ong tuig sa ato hurot! The year of the OX symbolizes strength and solidness. As we welcome the year 2009, your local government unit of Carrascal will be your strength in the effective delivery of our basic services to our constituents and be your solid guide in gearing our beloved town into development and progress.

My respect to our Municipal Vice Mayor, Hon. Jessie James T. Valle and the members of the Sangguniang Bayan, our respective barangay captains from the 14 barangays of our municipality, department heads of our LGU, Our District Supervisor and all the school heads of our District, ………… sa tanan nato mga bisita kuman, marajaw na buntag!

The year 2009 will solidify the partnership that we shared during my administration here as your Local Chief Executive. From 2001 up to this time, you have been very supportive to all our programs and activities and made my 7 ½ years in service here in the local government unit of Carrascal productive and very rewarding.

The end of my term as your local chief executive in 2010 is a reality that we must all face but rest assured that before that time comes, I will be exerting more efforts to implement programs and projects embodied in our Executive-Legislative Agenda and I will leave you with a very productive and progressive Carrascal.

But 2010 is still a year away and we have lots of preparation to do, so, it is best to present to you what your Local Government Unit did for the betterment of Carrascal in the year 2008.

Indeed, it has been a successful 2008 for us. It was benchmarked by the visit of no less than our beloved president Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last April 17, 2008. Her visit motivated us to work more for our constituents. Because of her visit, our parish was able to implement the Bigasan Ng Parokya to answer the rice crisis that we had during that time.

PGMA Arroyo also formalized the launching of the construction of Carrascal-Claver Road Segment amounting to 200,000 million through the DPWH. We were also given 1 Million for the Library Hub intended for our elementary schools. Another 12 Million are given to us for the construction of Gamuton-Bon-ot Irrigation to be implemented this year and another 15 Million for Adlay irrigation. The visit of PGMA is an event that we must be proud of and to be considered as one great accomplishment for year 2008.

In the Fiscal Administration, the year 2008 has been very good to us also. I am glad to inform all Carrascalanons that we have an astounding increase of our Total Income from P46,175,055 in 2007 to P64,955,795 in 2008.

The increase is mainly because of the taxes that we get from the operation of mining companies here and from the national wealth share.

For business tax alone, we have an increase of P1,461,706.6 from 511,195.32 in 2007 to 1,972,898.95 in 2008 and for the Loading Fee of Nickel Ore we got an of increase of 2,463,957.86 from 9,236,944 in 2007 to 11,700,901 in 2008. This is the net income from loading fee since we gave already the share of the barangay of 10%.

The share that we got from the National Wealth also gave us the astounding increase since we received P8,930,047 last year from the operation of mining and logging operation in 2005-2006. We got P6,675,536 from the mining share and P2,254,611 from the logging operation share.

Just like most of the LGUs, we are still dependent from our Internal Revenue Allotment, from 2007 we had our IRA amounting to 32,699,688 million which increased in 2008 amounting to 39,178,700.97 million.

However, we are now starting to improve that condition because of the increase of our local income. In 2007, 71% of our total income comes from the IRA while only 29% are from the Local Income (mostly from business tax & RPTA).

But for the year 2008, only 60% of our Total Income comes from IRA which gave us a difference of 10%. We got 14% from our national wealth and 26% from our Local income.

Thus, for the year 2008 we have a total income of P64,955,795 that also enable us to implement as a 1st Class municipality which we deserve.

From the report of the Municipal Accounting Office, for 2008 we have spent 22,035,952 for Personal Services, 18,338,235 MOOE and 7,179,240 for capital outlay

For expenditure by sector for 2008, we spent 30,662,926 for General Public Services, 5,521,332 for Social Services and 11,369,169 for Economic Services

Total Expenditure amounts to 47,553,428 which give us a surplus of 8,211,987.49.

The increase that we got for the year 2008 enable us to get our budget for the operation of different programs and services of your LGU thus we have these accomplishments:

1. INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR

2. AGRICULTURE & FISHERY SECTOR

The Fertilizer Subsidy of the LGU continued to help our farmers especially in battling high prices of Farm products. The LGU is still giving 15% discounts from the prevailing market price of fertilizers (complete & urea). There are 372 farmers who availed the fertilizer program in 2008 totaling to 1,091 bags of fertilizer released by the Municipal Government. We have a yearly appropriation of P300,000

The National Government through the Department of Agriculture also released its fertilizer program. There are 111 bags released to 59 farmers.

The LGU also subsidized registered & certified seeds to our farmers. There are 250 bags released to 239 farmers for the Seed Subsidy CS (DA), 41 bags for 31 farmers in Hybrid seeds subsidy & 60 bags of certified seeds to 37 farmers for Seed Subsidy-RS (DA)

636 hectares total land area is planted with rice in 2008. 516 hectares is irrigated while 120 hectares in rainfed.

Total Rice Production in 2008 totaled to 30,086 bags from 520 total no. of farmers who tilled their lands. 23,070 bags are from irrigated areas and 7,016 bags from rainfed areas.

20 bags of hybrid corn seeds were also released to 18 farmers wherein total area planted is 120 hectares. There are 427.5 bags (shelled) total production of corn in 2008.

We are also emphasizing that for this year 2009, we are promoting Abaca & Banana production which is our One Town One Product or under the (OTOP) program. This program will be implemented in the Barangays of Babuyan and Pantukan thus the infrastructure project that we are implementing there to support this endeavor.

For the livestock, we have our Animal Breeding Center Production report that renders an income of 81,000.00 for the whole year 2008. There are 38 heads of piglets produced & sold. We were able to re-dispersed 2 heads of cattle and 81 heads of kabir.

There are 222 HH in Brgy. Doyos benefited from P50,000 for their Household Hog Raising Program

For the Fishery sector, we have 2 marine protected area maintained and were able to make 15 apprehensions of illegal fishing activities wherein 23 violators were apprehended. 1 case is now filed in court, 9 violators are convicted and 7 were convicted through compromise agreement settlement.

Through our dispersal program which aim to increase fish catch in our municipal waters, we have 30,000 fingerlings of carp & tilapia stocked in communal waters/rivers.

There are 361 total no. of fishermen in our locality with 211 motorized boats and 143 non-motorized boats.

Fish Catch for the year 2008 totaled to 96.2 MT

For the MRDP-CFAD Program, we received 950,000.00 comprising of :
 

(Sgd) Hon. Alfred B. Arreza, ECE
Municipal Mayor

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