Releasing the Sum of P15 Million as Aid to Local Governments to Increase Salaries of Teachers in Local Schools

March 31, 1979

LETTER OF IMPLEMENTATION NO. 85

RELEASING THE SUM OF P15 MILLION AS AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO INCREASE SALARIES OF TEACHERS IN LOCAL SCHOOLS

WHEREAS, the international energy situation is such that the cost of oil and consequently the prices of consumer goods are expected to increase in the current year;

WHEREAS, special salary increases are being authorized for national school teachers;

WHEREAS, teachers in provincial, municipal, barangay and City High Schools paid from local government funds sometimes receive lower salaries than their national counterparts;

WHEREAS, there is need to assist provincial, municipal, barangay and city governments to enable them to implement necessary salary increase for local school teachers;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby direct:

1. The sum of P15 million shall be released from the appropriation for Budgetary Aid to Local Governments in Batas Pambansa Blg. 1, to augment the P100 million already budgeted as national aid to local schools;

2. The sum shall be allotted among schools in accordance with such guidelines and rules as may be evolved by the Joint Commission on Local Government Personnel Administration created by P.D. No. 1136 in consultation with the Minister of Education and Culture;

3. The entire amount shall be used for the purpose of local school teacher salary adjustments, which shall be effective no earlier than May 1, 1979;

4. The eight-month cost (May-December) of approved salary increases shall not exceed the P15 million herein ordered released.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 31st day of March, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Nine.