QC government grants P1M financial assistance to QCFBKF

• Source:https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/06/17/qc-government-grants-p1m-financial-assistance-to-qcfbkf/
• Monday, June 17, 2019 2:38 pm

By Chito Chavez

The Quezon City government has granted a P1-million financial assistance to the Quezon City Former Barangay Kagawad Foundation (QCFBKF) to support their various projects.

In Resolution 7787-2018, authored by Councilor Godofredo T. Liban II, the city council has authorized Mayor Herbert Bautista to grant the assistance.

With the donation, the QCFBKF are now more financially liquid to extend aid and assistance to the community especially to its members who are former barangay councilors of the city.

“City Mayor Herbert M. Bautista acceded to assist the QCFBKF in every reasonable means by granting the request of financial assistance amounting to P1,000,000.00 to carry out its mandate, projects, and activities,” the resolution reads.

Under the Local Government Code of 1991, the city government, through its chief executive and the city council, can provide assistance to people’s organizations and NGOs for economic, socially-oriented, environmental, or cultural projects to be implemented in their community.

Also, Bautista signed an ordinance that establishes a public mortuary in each of the city’s six districts.

The outgoing mayor noted the necessity of providing “indigent residents with decent and dignified funeral for their departed loved ones.”

City Ordinance 2753-2018—introduced by Councilors Estrella Valmocina, Franz Pumaren, and Hero Clarence Bautista—is the city government’s response to the requests by poor residents for funeral home services for their deceased family members.

Bautista noted that it is very often that poor families are forced to hold wakes outside their homes.

The City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) and Office of the City Engineer will create the necessary plans and cost estimates of the mortuaries.

Bautista said the planned public mortuaries will have 10 viewing rooms each.