By Media Mindanao News Service
News Digest Volume 1, August 1987-July 1988 Posted by Davao Today
ILIGAN CITY (MMNS/September 30, 1987) – The mayor designate here foresees a “severe dislocation” of public school teachers “not only in Iligan” If the government pushes implementation of Executive Order No. 189.
E.O. 189 recently signed by Pres. Corazon Aquino requires that provincial and city governments remit 80% of the real property taxes to the national coffer instead of the previous 20% remittance. Under the new scheme local governments can only retain of real property taxes which Mayor Allan Flores called a “complete reversal” of the previous practice.
This city’s special education fund (SEF) gets its budget from the real property taxes. Mayor Flores warned that with the “complete reversal” the local educational system and public mentors will suffer a “severe dislocation.”
“I am sad with this turn of events. Even with the 80% retention (of this city), it is even difficult to cope up with the needs of the school system,” said OIC Flores.
Iligan, otherwise known as the “Industrial City of the South” still owes about 600 employee in unpaid salaries since the Aquino government assumed power 19 months ago. Eleven major industries that include a steel processing plant and two cement factories, are the main sources of real property taxes. Flores gave no details. (Mindanao News Service News Digest Volume 1, August 1987-July 1988 Posted by Davao Today)
