City Releases Additional Back ECOLA for Teachers

    
     Mayor Evelio R. Leonardia releases more than five and a half million pesos to cover three months of back ECOLA for Bacolod City public school teachers. The funds are part of the net income of the Local School Board as of December 31, 2004 in the amount of P6,463,286.27 as certified by the OIC-City Accountant.
     In the meeting of the Local School Board held May 4, 2005 at the Bacolod City Mayor's conference room, the mayor was apprised of the distribution of the funds by Dr. Milagros S. Gonzales, Schools Division Superintendent. P5,523,000.00 would pay for the back ECOAL of some 2,630 teachers  for the months of April, May and June 2001. The balance of P94,286.27 will go to operational expenses such as office equipment, supplies and materials, and new projects, like the administration of the St.Dominic Savio Learning Center at the Bacolod Boys' Home, and assistance to the province for the Palarong Pambansa athletes.
     Cognizant of the invaluable service that school teachers render to our society, Mayor Leonardia has been consistently sourcing out funds for the teacher's ECOLA, much of which has remained unpaid in the last several years. It is noteworthy that in its first ten months, the Leonardia administration, in spite of financial pressures, has already paid seven months worth of back ECOLA, covering 2001 and 2002, to the public school teachers. Leonardia is committed to giving back to the teachers the compensation they have earned.
     Also present at the meeting were Jose Mingay, Elizabeth Malaga and Re-an Reboton of DepEd, PTA Federation president Rudy Yanson, OIC City Accountant Ed Ravena, City Councilors Greg Gasataya and Marx Louie dela Rosa, and Eng'r Aladino Agbones of the City Engineers Office. (CMO-PIO/efj)

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