By EUGENE ADIONG
BACOLOD City — The ordinance providing for the reorganization of the Negros Occidental provincial government is now with the Provincial Legal Office (PLO) for review.
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) handed it over to the PLO even without the signature of SP member Rolando Ponsica, who presided the session when the ordinance was approved, Provincial Administrator Enrique Pinongan said.
Ponsica was expected to be back to work this week after a month-long leave for a trip to the United States.
Vice Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said he will have Ponsica sign the ordinance if the latter attends today’s session to make the local law official.
After the PLO review, the final copy of the ordinance will be submitted to Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr., Pinongan said.
Marañon will then come up with an executive order creating the Reorganization Implementation Committee.
Aside from creating new positions and transferring some personnel, the ordinance will also merge some Capitol offices.
SP member Miller Serondo, human resource and personnel committee chair, sponsored the reorganization ordinance.
Provincial Budget Officer Jose Percival Salado earlier said the reorganization will be done gradually.
Salado said the implementation committee will carry out the “transfer-in, transfer-out scheme,” which will affect 161 and 168 employees, respectively.
It will be followed by the abolition of vacant positions, he said.
Employees assigned at abolished departments will be given priority to occupy created positions, provided they are qualified, to be followed by contractual ones, he said./PN
