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DILG OPINION NO. 6' S. 2OIO
24 May 2010
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thereto, please be informed that under DBM Local Budget
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No. 63, in reration to section
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In the
case
at
hand, according
the
sangguniang barangay did not attend your 16 lanuary 2010 regular session since
the notice for the said session was only given to them on 15 January 2010 and
that they had already emergenry appointments set on that session day. with
only you and two (2) sangguniang barangay members present, the aforeiaid 16
January 2010 regular session was adjourned for lack of quorum.
As contended by the majority of your sangguniang barangay members in
their rejoinder, they should be given their honoraria corresponding to your 16
January 2010 regular session since the same was after all adiourned due to lack
of ouorum.
Applying the rule as we enunciated above. written notices for the conduct
of a sanggunian's regular session are no longer required since the date, time and
place of the regular session was already previously fixed via a Resolution. The
sangguniang barangay members cannot therefore use good faith (e.g. short
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did not
attend your 16 ranuary 2010 regurar-iessiori due io'n"ir-"r"ig"n.y
appointments, we find the propoftionate reduction of their respective non6iiria
to be just proper if such emergency appointments are nor connected with the
performance of their public duty.
68. Execution
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including
such
suspension."
Based on the aforequoted Section 68 of the Code, the respondent local
elective official shall be considered as having placed under preventive suspension
during the pendency of his appeal. Relative thereto, under Section 64 of the
Code, the respondent local elective official preventively suspended from office
shall receive no salary or compensation during such suspension and it is only
upon his exoneration and reinstatement that he shall be paid his full salary or
compensation, including such emoluments accruing during such suspension.
In the case at
Let
Director
Cc:
This Department
DIR. MARIA LOURDES L. AGUMN
City Director
DILG, Quezon City
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