Transition reports ready this month – Palace
Malacañang yesterday assured the incoming Duterte administration the transition reports of various departments and agencies would be ready by the end of this month to ensure continuity and efficiency of government services.
Presidential Communications Operations Office ( PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in the first meeting of the Presidential Transition Committee on Friday, they focused on the need to have the transition reports of all departments, agencies, bureaus, governmentowned and controlled corporations and other instrumentalities under the executive branch submitted and consolidated by May 31 to give the incoming administration ample time to review them before assumption into office.
Under Administrative Order No. 49 signed by President Aquino on May 12 creating the Presidential Transition Committee (PTC), Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. was designated head and the members are the secretaries of the National Economic and Development Authority, Department of Budget and Management, Department of Finance, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Public Works and Highways and PCOO.
As directed by Ochoa, Coloma said the most senior career official would be designated as agency focal person for the duration of the transition process leading to the inauguration of the incoming president on June 30.
Coloma said the PTC was prepared to work and meet with the transition team of incoming president Rodrigo Duterte, but there was no scheduled meeting yet.
“We’re just waiting for their advice as to when they would meet and coordinate with us. On our part, we are ready whenever they want the meeting to take place,” Coloma said.
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), for its part, assured the incoming administration that they would continue to deliver basic local services until the final day of the Aquino administration.
“From this day until June 30 – on the last day of our term, be assured that we will waste no time in still delivering the services that the DILG has to implement,” DILG Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento said.