Presumptive VP Duterte forms Davao transition team

DAVAO City—presumptive Vice President and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-carpio has formed the city governance transition team to ensure the smooth transition of governance from the old to the new set of elected city government officials and the safekeeping and protection of records and assets.

Duterte-carpio issued Executive Order (EO) 17, also known as “An Order Creating And Constituting The City Governance Transition Team [CGTT], Defining Its Duties and Responsibilities, And For Other Purposes.” The EO was actually signed much earlier on May 5 in her capacity as the incumbent city mayor then.

The CGTT shall be composed of the city mayor or her duly authorized representative as the chairperson. The co-chairperson will be elected among the members by a simple majority vote.

All department heads, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) city director or city local government operations officer, the Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Davao secretary; and the Public Administration Development Committee representatives will also form part of the CGTT as members.

The CGTT members were ordered to name their respective alternate and permanent representatives, who shall take their place during their absence.

Eo17 cited dilg’ s memorandum(mc )2022-029 issued on march 10, 2022, which states that the CGTT shall ensure the safekeeping of local government unit( lgu) records and documents and the protection of LGU assets during the election period, and guarantee the smooth local governance transition to new and reelected local officials.

“There is a need for the City Government of Davao to create a Governance Transition Team to prepare for the effective turnover of responsibilities in order to ensure continuity in local governance after the 2022 National and Local elections,” Duterte-carpio said in her EO.

The CGTT, as per DILG MC 202209, is mandated to conduct an inventory of immovable properties such as land, or permanent structures such as buildings, infrastructure facilities and their improvements, and machinery made immovable; and movable properties such as vehicles, office equipment, furniture, fixtures, and office supply, stocks, among others.

The transition team shall also gather, secure, and preserve all official documents and/or records of official transactions of the City Government of Davao; turnover of accountabilities using the prescribed forms, in the case of incoming elected local officials, and update list of accountabilities, in case of re-elected officials; and organize a turnover ceremony for the incoming local officials, including a briefing on the Governance Assessment Report and key challenges, to be conducted on June 30 this year.

Theteamshallalsoensuretheaccomplishmentoftheelectivelocalpersonnel Data Sheet (ELOPDS) by the incoming officials to be submitted not later than July 11 to their Human Resource Management Office (HRMO), Office of the Sangguniang Panlungsod, and DILG Field Office; and perform other duties and functions necessary to carry out the purpose of EO 17, Series of 2022.

The City Administrator’s Office is also directed to be the Secretariat who shall handle all CGTT administrative and secretarial functions.

All operational costs of the CGTT shall be sourced from the available funds of the City Government of Davao, subject to the usual accounting and auditing rules and regulations.

Duterte’s regional party, Hugpong ng Pagbabago, said the leading vicepresidential candidate with already 31 million votes in the unofficial counting is now in Manila to make the rounds of offices and gatherings of supporters to personally express her gratitude.

“Maraming salamat sa naniwala at nagtiwala sa aking desisyon sa tumakbong Bise Presidente [Many thanks to all of you who believed and trusted in my decision to run as Vice President]. We shall continue to guard our votes until we have reached the proclamation,” Duterte said.

“Maraming Salamat sa pagtanggap ninyo ng kilusan ng pagkakaisa na handog ni Bongbong Marcos. Ang Uniteam ay magiging simbolo ng mga magigiting, masisipag, at nagkakaisang Pilipino [Many thanks also for accepting the movement for unity offered by Bongbong Marcos. The Uniteam will become the symbol of the patriotic, industrious and unified Filipinos],” she added.

The HNP said Duterte has already garnered 31,202,591 votes as of 11:17 in the morning of Wednesday. She was 22,051,036 votes ahead of the next rival, who has 9,151,555 votes. The HNP said the Commission on Elections has already transmitted 97.14 percent of the election returns.