7.13. The City Mayor issued an Office Order directing the CAO and City DRRM Office
heads to swiftly address the foregoing recommendations. The City also assured the
Team of its compliance thereto.
Under-utilization of LDRRMF
8. The City utilized only 48.72 per cent or ₱85,070,259.11 out of the total available funds
of ₱174,605,488.93 of its LDRRMF as of December 31, 2024, thereby compromising
the City’s preparedness to respond to disasters/calamities and exposing it to a higher
risk of loss of lives and properties in such an eventuality.
8.1. The foremost goal of R.A. No. 10121, otherwise known as The Philippine Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010, is to strengthen the country’s National
DRRM System towards sustainable economic development by mainstreaming the
same in all national and local development processes. This principally requires
institutionalizing and organizing its structures, in all levels of government
nationwide, where local DRRM plans and policies will be developed, and where
implementation of actions and measures pertaining to all aspects of DRRM will be
initiated.
8.2. Likewise, it mandates that the country shift from purely disaster recovery and
response to disaster reduction, preparedness and mitigation. Section 21 thereof
specifies that 70 per cent of the DRRMF shall be allocated to the Mitigation Fund
(MF) for disaster prevention, mitigation, and preparedness.
8.3. A review of the appropriations for the LDRRMF showed the following available
funds and the corresponding utilization, viz:
Particulars Available Utilized Balance
Current Year Appropriation:
QRF ₱16,500,000.00 0.00 ₱16,500,000.00
MF
MOOE 17,600,000.00 ₱12,361,578.29 5,238,421.71
Capital Outlay 20,900,000.00 1,190,409.40 19,709,590.60
Total 55,000,000.00 13,551,987.69 41,448,012.31
Continuing Appropriation:
CY 2019 78,550.93 78,550.93
CY 2020 405,000.00 405,000.00
CY 2021 1,332,356.83 1,332,356.83
CY 2022 12,866,418.85 3,392,584.00 9,473,834.85
CY 2023 22,246,122.59 20,283,452.00 1,962,670.59
Total 36,928,449.20 23,676,036.00 13,252,413.20
STF:
CY 2013 2,670,692.37 2,670,692.37 0.00
CY 2017 2,707,598.43 2,707,598.43 0.00
CY 2018 6,569,686.70 6,569,686.70 0.00
CY 2019 3,437,803.74 200,529.14 3,237,274.60
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