Given during the conduct of orientation and simulation on NEO webinar to all DILG field personnel of Zamboanga Peninsula, Regional Director Paisal O. Abutazil said that Dinas town was the first LGU to receive its first tranche for this year 2013. Although some of the LGUs are on the process of completing their necessary documents while others waited for the download of the fund this year.
“ It is good to note that the allocation is not in the form of a loan rather it was an assistance fund intended for the LGUs provision to potable water as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)”, he added.
A total of Php 5,947,000 was budgeted for the water system in Dinas to benefit three (3) barangays in Dinas namely: Poblacion, Don Jose and Benuatan.
Turn-over of the check was personally handed by RD Paisal O. Abutazil to Mrs. Elsie Galace, the collecting officer from the municipal treasurer’s office of the said town and was witnessed by ARD Pedro G. Cuevas Jr. and MLGOO Maricar Ceniza.