{"id":6211,"date":"2014-12-13T06:51:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T22:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2014-12-13T06:51:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T22:51:37","slug":"sc-upholds-robredos-orders-on-good-local-governance-abs-cbn-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/13\/sc-upholds-robredos-orders-on-good-local-governance-abs-cbn-news\/","title":{"rendered":"SC upholds Robredo&#039;s orders on good local governance &#124; ABS-CBN News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The memorandum circulars provide, among others, for the full disclosure of the LGUs&#8217; budgets.<br \/>\nFormer Camarines Sur Governor Luis Raymond Villafuerte Jr. had questioned the legality of Memorandum Circular 2010-83, Memorandum Circular (MC) 2010-138 and Memorandum Circular 2011-08 for \u201clack of merit.\u201d<br \/>\nMC 2010-83 pertains to the full disclosure of local budgets and finances and bids and public offering.<br \/>\nMC 2010-138, on the other hand, pertains to the use of the 20 percent component of the annual Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) shares.<br \/>\nMC 2011-08, meanwhile, pertains to the strict adherence by local government units on Section 90 of Republic Act 10147 or the General Appropriations Act of 2011.<br \/>\nVillafuerte claimed Robredo, who died in 2012 in a plane crash, went beyond his supervisory powers. He said the circulars violate local and fiscal autonomy.<br \/>\nThe SC dismissed his claims, saying \u201cit is inconceivable, however, how the publication of budgets, expenditures, contracts and loans and procurement plans of local government units required in the assailed issuances could have infringed on the local fiscal autonomy of local government units.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8220;The posting requirements are mere transparency measures which do not at all hurt the manner by which local government units decide the utilization and allocation of their funds,&#8221; it added.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs-cbnnews.com\/nation\/12\/11\/14\/sc-upholds-robredos-orders-good-local-governance\">SC upholds Robredo&#8217;s orders on good local governance | ABS-CBN News<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The memorandum circulars provide, among others, for the full disclosure of the LGUs&#8217; budgets. Former Camarines Sur Governor Luis Raymond Villafuerte Jr. had questioned the legality of Memorandum Circular 2010-83, Memorandum Circular (MC) 2010-138 and Memorandum Circular 2011-08 for \u201clack of merit.\u201d MC 2010-83 pertains to the full disclosure of local budgets and finances and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/13\/sc-upholds-robredos-orders-on-good-local-governance-abs-cbn-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SC upholds Robredo&#039;s orders on good local governance &#124; ABS-CBN News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,65,66,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-philippines","category-politics","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}