SARA ASKS TEACHERS TO SUBMIT NEW PROPOSAL
The mayor said it is impossible for the city to allot P406 million to Deped teaching and non-teaching personnel
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio asked the Association of Concerned Teachers (ACT) - Davao Chapter to submit another proposal about their additional allowance and rice subsidy demand that will be a “win-win” situation to both sides, since the P34,000 per teacher per year is not feasible.
The group has been asking the City Government of Davao to pay at least P406 Million yearly as subsidy to 11,959 teaching and nonteaching personnel of the Department of Education.
“At this point, it is impossible to allot P406 million to Department of Education (DepEd) teaching and non-teaching personnel. Number two, there is no legal basis to give any amount to employees of national government agencies,” Duterte-Carpio said during an interview with reporters yesterday, October 1, 2018.
“But as I said, I am willing to find a win-win situation between sa ilang proposal and the capacity of the city government,” she added.
The demand covers P2,000 monthly financial subsidy and a P2,500 quarterly rice subsidy.
Duterte-Carpio further said ACT Davao should rethink their position and come up with something reasonable, acceptable, and doable for the city government.
Meanwhile, Duterte-Carpio said it is also unfair to the city employees and if an additional local allowance and rice subsidy will be given, it should be given first to the city government employees.
“The city government has always been very helpful to employees of national government agencies,” she said, adding that there are a sheer number of DepEd employees which made it harder to allot a budget for their demand.
On the side of the teachers, ACT-Davao Chapter President, Reynaldo Pardillo, said that they will soon submit a new proposal as the mayor asked them to.
He further said that they are still hopeful that the city government will still give them additional allowance even if it will not be original proposed budget per teacher.
“While we will be submitting another proposal to the city government, we hope that the local government unit can have a dialogue with us to discuss on what can be “doable” for the city,” ACT Davao said in a statement.