Gas, office supplies, Ads, anti-rabies vaccine reach multi-million mark in guv's office
With three months left into this year's official buying spree, the Office of the Governor reached the multi-million mark in at least four programmed expenditures.
First placer are the gasoline, oil and lubricant expense for the governor's cars pegged at P3.5 million alongside anti-rabies vaccine also at P3.5 million. Trailing closely is P2.1 million worth of office supplies again under the Governor's Office and the "least," P1.1 million in advertising expenses.
The amount forms part of the Iloilo Provincial Government's current P1.1 billion budget that initially started with some P973 million.
Gas allowance for some 5 governor's cars began with a P1.5 million allocation, apparently not enough with the P2 million now sought in Supplemental Budget No. 4.
Office supplies of P2.1 million for Governor's Office is translated to over P230,000 worth of papers, folders, inks and pens among others every single month in the past 9 months.
Capitol insiders pointed out though that the amount is way "conservative" if compared to the 2005 office supplies of Governor Niel Tupas. Two years back began with P2.025 million budget excluding supplemental budgets thereafter.
Meantime, purchase of anti-rabies vaccine of P3.5 million is realized from the initial P1 million in Supplemental Budget No. 1, P500,000 in Supplemental Budget No. 2 and P2 million now sought in Supplemental Budget No. 4.
Iloilo Province has some 274,339 in dog population needing nearly 28,000 vials. Each vial covers vaccine for ten dogs. It was not immediately clear how many vials is procured by the P3.5 million budget.
The province through municipal licensed inspectors distribute the anti-rabies vials in a year-round vaccination. Such after Iloilo ranked among the top in the country's list of provinces with highest rabies incidents.