The Tinian municipal government has started a cutback in man hours of its employees to cope with a tight budget, and may further reduce the working hours if revenue collections continue to drop, Mayor Francisco M. Borja’s chief aide said yesterday.<\/p>\n
Under the most serious cost-cutting steps Borja has taken so far, employees working for the Office of the Mayor have been asked to perform services one hour less than the daily eight hours requirement.<\/p>\n
William Cing, executive officer for the mayor’s office, explained the move was intended to keep some 130 workers employed despite shrinking cash resources.<\/p>\n
“We needed to ensure that we live within whatever is allotted for the mayor’s office without resorting to layoff,” Cing said in a phone interview. “This is our contribution to help alleviate the government’s empty coffers.”<\/p>\n
In the FY 1999 spending package approved by the Legislature, the island municipality was supposed to receive some $1.63 million in quarterly appropriations.<\/p>\n
But because of the 13.4 percent anticipated decline in revenues that would bring down resource projections to $216 million from $246 million, actual allotment received by the mayor’s office only amounted to $778,000.<\/p>\n
The reduction in work hours has cut down by $16 million to $136,000 the expenditures of the mayor’s office for personnel costs every pay period.<\/p>\n
“We were really hit hard in the second quarter and we’re forced to cut the working hours in order to avoid a deficit and layoff,” Cing said, but warned, “If we found that cash is not enough then we should further reduce the working hours.”<\/p>\n
He said the mayor’s office has put in place a package of austerity measures in line with Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio’s call for belt-tightening because of the worsening economic condition of the commonwealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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