KONTRA SOPA and Our ALTERNATIVES

Intro .

Agenda No. 1: Agricultural Productivity

1.a.) Gov. Moreno prioritized his sports development activities and imported basketball players rather than the poor and struggling farmers in our province. Moreno s proposed budget for his Sports Development Program for FY 2011 is an overwhelming P10 Million while his proposed budget for Agricultural Development Program in FY 2011 is P2.7 million only or a huge margin of P7.3 million against our province s farmers. ALTERNATIVES: We, the SP-MisOr Majority have already moved to increase the budget for Agricultural Development Programs in FY 2011 from P2.7 Million to P10 million. However, Gov. Moreno and Vice-Gov. Norris Babiera had blocked all our efforts to help our province s farmers. Moreno and Babiera should learn to listen to our farmers rather than the basketball players who are not even Misamisnons. 1.b.) Moreno turned a blind eye on the fact that Agricultural Productivity, particularly rice and corn productions, in Misamis Oriental have drastically dropped in 2010. According to the Provincial Agricultural Office, Production Data for Corn and Rice in Metric Tons (MT) are as follows: Production Data for Corn (MT) Production Data for Rice (MT) CY 2009 234,492.40 CY 2009 28,246.00 CY 2010 132,796.00 CY 2010 25,864.00 Decreased by 101,596.40 (MT) Decreased by 2,382.00 (MT) ALTERNATIVES: Moreno should be mindful of the Agricultural Productivity of our farmers in the Province to help them and their families live better lives and enjoy a brighter future. 1.c.) Moreno Administration s Agricultural Inputs dramatically decreased in 2010. It is now as follows: Agricultural Inputs 2009 2010 Decreased (No. of Bags) (No. of Bags) (No. of Bags) Hybrid Rice 358 77 281 Certified Rice 1,379 966 413 Organic Fertilizers 3,509 0 3,509 Bio-N (Packs) 7,092 674 6,418 Hybrid Corn 657 128 529 OPV 1,074 701 373 Assorted Vegetable 3,847 275 3,572 seeds packs ALTERNATIVES: Increase agricultural inputs to increase productivity and help the farmers in our province. The Moreno Administration should not rely on funding sources from other government agencies such as the Department of Agriculture or other agencies.

Agenda No. 2: Investment in Infrastructure

2.a.) Moreno invested in infrastructures without proper consultation from the municipal mayors and barangay officers as to what their respective municipalities and barangays actually need. The infrastructures do not actually answer the direct and real needs of the people and are wrong priorities .

ALTERNATIVES: Annual Investment Plan (AIP) should be from all the concerned municipalities and not just from the whims of Moreno. Leadership qualities of Moreno to consult and work with the municipal leaders should be improved. 2.b.) COA auditors reported in 2007, 2008 and 2009 that there were several infrastructure contracts and other supporting documents for such projects that were not submitted on time by the Moreno Administration to the COA auditors while there were some that were submitted that lacked necessary supporting documents. ALTERNATIVES: Annual Investment Plan (AIP) should be from all the concerned municipalities and not just from the whims of Moreno. Leadership qualities of Moreno to consult and work with the municipal leaders should be improved. 2.c.) The governor incurred a total of P105,870,764.82 or P105.9 Million in loans to purchase several Heavy Equipments and Transportation Vehicles. However, these heavy equipments are being used by private entities, construction works in Cagayan de Oro, and those who could afford the rent and gasoline. Meanwhile, several barangays and municipalities which are not Moreno s political allies could not even borrow one heavy equipment just to improve and/or maintain the infrastructures in their areas. Creditor Date Term Principal amount Contracted 1. Heavy Equipment Loan 3/28/2006 7 years P 50,000,000.00 2. Heavy Equipment Loan 3/28/2006 7 years P 8,820,764.82 3. Heavy Equipment Loan 11/11/2008 10 years P 85,200,000.00 4. Transportation Vehicle TOTAL 02/10/2009 7 years P 11,800,000.00 P 105, 870,764.82

ALTERNATIVES: Moreno should remember that these loans made to purchase heavy equipments and transportations are being paid by the entire province. Thus, those who need it should be allowed to borrow even if they are not political allies of Moreno.

Agenda No. 3: Hospital System

3.a.) Moreno and Babiera are afraid in the establishment of a PhilHealth Capitation Fund Oversight Committee to be composed of the representatives of the People of Misamis Oriental from the SP-MisOr. The committee would have been tasked to make the Moreno Administration fully accountable as to what it did with the millions of pesos in PhilHealth Capitation Fund granted by the government-run insurance company. We the SP-MisOr and even COA auditors have found the district hospitals to be lacking in medical supplies, hospital equipments and other hospital facilities. The hospitals would only look like newly-painted buildings but are practically and substantially empty inside. We and even the COA auditors found out that the Moreno Administration has failed to totally provide adequate medicine supplies in the various district hospitals in the Province. Auditors have initially found out that Moreno was into shopping for Medicine Supplies rather than buying in bulk under the Procurement Law.

ALTERNATIVES: Moreno and Babiera should not stop the creation of a fully functioning PhilHealth Capitation Fund Oversight Committee. Moreno Administration should fully account

to the people what happened to the millions of pesos in capitation fund given by PhilHealth to supposedly improve our district hospitals.

3.b.) Moreno administration has been paying for PhilHealth beneficiaries who are not residents of Misamis Oriental but in Cagayan de Oro City. ALTERNATIVES: Moreno should prioritize the giving out of PhilHealth benefits to be granted only to residents in the Province of Misamis Oriental. The funds of the Provincial Government should be for the People of Misamis Oriental.

3.c.) Moreno administration has poorly implemented health-related ordinances of the SP-MisOr specifically the ordinance granting free gasoline supplies for ambulance transport for indigent patients . ALTERNATIVES: SP-MisOr has already enacted an ordinance granting free gasoline to indigent patients who are in need of the hospital ambulances but this legislative measure is not properly implemented by the Moreno Administration.

Agenda No. 4: Teamwork and a Streamlined Bureaucracy

4.a.) Moreno has called for the streamlining of the bureaucracy but has hired numerous consultants whose names and respective expertise are kept secret to the public. Moreno has completely barred the efforts of the SP-MisOr members to get to know and even tap into the expertise of these supposed consultants. This even as the Provincial Capitol has been paying millions of pesos for these consultants as follows: Year Year Year Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 = = = = P P P P 4,894,750.00 or P4.9 Million paid to Moreno s consultants 7,206,200.00 or P7.2 Million paid to Moreno s consultants 9,772,650.00 or P9.9 Million paid to Moreno s consultants 15,053,710.72 or P15.05 Million paid to Moreno s consultants

COA auditors have reported that the hiring of the services of these consultants were not in accordance with law and that they were only for political accommodation. ALTERNATIVES: If Moreno is really serious in his call for teamwork and a streamlined bureaucracy and even for transparency and accountability, then he should follow the law in the hiring of these consultants and correspondingly disclose their names and expertise. 4.b.) Moreno calls for teamwork but issued a gag order and completely barred department heads from attending the SP-MisOr plenary hearings where they are invited to help come out with better and more accurate legislative measures for more efficient delivery of services to the People of Misamis Oriental. ALTERNATIVES: Allow department heads and other provincial employees to attend SP-MisOr Plenaries. It would help facilitate a more improved bureaucracy. 4.c.) Moreno s streamlining has involved the hiring of an even bigger workforce even double to that of former Gov. Calingin who only had more or less 700 casuals and job order employees.

According to the Provincial Human Resource Office, Moreno s administration is as follows: PERMANENT employees TEMPORARY employees Co-terminous employees = = = 1,125 20 42 1,187 = = 474 59 533 418 106 524

JOB ORDER employees (20 days) (15 days)

CASUALS (Special Account) (Main charge)

= =

TOTAL 2,244 The hiring of this huge workforce is not justified despite the increase in the Province s population considering that the work given to this workforce is redundant and only for political accommodation and not due to specific actual job order needs. In Gingoog District Hospital, there are around 15 employees paid directly by Moreno s Administration. These 15 casuals have only one job description to guard the district hospital.

Agenda No. 5: Poverty Alleviation

5.a.) Moreno does not have a clear-cut and sustainable livelihood program which would actually help the people of Misamis Oriental lift themselves out from poverty.

ALTERNATIVE: Create, implement and sustain a proper livelihood program to make sure that our constituents are not just given a fish to live for one day but to help them in a way that they could, on their own, fish for themselves and live better lives.

5.b.) The Moreno Administration continues to belittle the importance of cooperatives in improving the socio-economic status of the People of Misamis Oriental. The governor has continuously blocked the budget increase that would have helped in the development of cooperatives in the province.

ALTERNATIVE: Give emphasis in the role of cooperatives in helping the government in its fight against poverty. Also, increase the budget for cooperative development and support their programs.

Agenda No. 6: MISORTEL Resuscitation

6.a.) MISORTEL mismanagement has resulted to Moreno s MISORTEL resuscitation considering that the telephone company is losing an average of 100 subscribers a month. December 2010 May 2011 = 10,610 subscribers = 9,957 subscribers 653 subscribers lost or an average of 100

subscribers lost a month

ALTERNATIVE: Proper MISORTEL management and maintenance of lines. Customer Care and immediate response must be improved among others. 6.b.) MISORTEL income is also going down the drain as its number of subscribers continue to drop. Latest Income March 2011 = P 5,170,488.22 April 2011 = P 4,846,872.68 323,615.54 decrease in income ALTERNATIVE: Aside from proper MISORTEL management, maintenance of lines, better customer care and immediate response, PROPER FISCAL MANAGEMENT of MISORTEL s already very limited resources and dropping income. 6.b.) MISORTEL debts to the General Fund of the Provincial Capitol skyrocketed during the time of the Moreno Administration. COA auditors reported that MISORTEL s debt to the general fund as of December 2004 was only P52.12 million (Source: COA AAR 2006) but it has grown tremendously to P162,941,336.35 in 2006 and P183,594,889.62 in 2008 (Source: COA AAR 2008). Latest MISORTEL statement of accounts show that the telephone company now owes the General Fund P 213,442,542.73 as of May 2011. ALTERNATIVE: Stop MISORTEL mismanagement by Moreno Administration.

Agenda No. 7: Revenue Generation

7.a.) The Moreno Administration generated revenues only to incur cash advances that more than double the combined cash advances made by all governors of Misamis Oriental. When former Gov. Antonio Calingin s administration ended in 2004, it left a total cash advance of only P30.05 million (Source: COA AAR FY 2004) including those incurred by previous governors back to first MisOr Gov. Don Gregorio Pelaez in Nov. 28, 1939. But from 2006 to 2009 or for just a span of three years, the Moreno Administration alone incurred a total of P59,672,979.76 or almost P60 million in unliquidated cash advances : FY 2006 P37,068,067.00 or around P37 million. (Source: COA AAR FY 2006) FY 2007 P50,819,705.36 or around P51 million. (Source: COA AAR FY 2007) FY 2008 P71,408,328.60 or around P71 million. (Source: COA AAR FY 2008) FY 2009 P96,741,047.26 or around P97 million. (Source: COA AAR FY 2009) The P29 million of this P60 million cash advance was incurred as audit-free Intelligence Funds by Moreno s very own provincial administrator Patrick U. Gabutina alone. 7.a.) ALTERNATIVES: Proper Fiscal Management. Full and timely accounting to the people of what happened to the revenues generated. Moreno should respect the laws governing cash advances as it was he himself who called for Calingin to do so when the latter was still governor. 7.b.) Moreno generated revenues to be spent only on overpriced luxuries such as spending more or less P1.9 Million on rental of sound system and purchase of lechon baboy from Jaco s Lechons amounting to P277,000.00 or a total of P2.2 Million (Source: Jaco s Lechon Receipt No. 2668 and provincial auditor s findings). 7.b.) ALTERNATIVES: Proper Fiscal Management. Full and timely accounting to the people of what happened to the revenues generated. Moreno Administration should respect the laws governing cash advances as Moreno himself called for Calingin to do so when the latter was still governor.

Agenda No. 8: Education, Sports Development and Environmental Protection

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8.a.) Moreno has unilaterally and without consultation allocated P32 million of the P34 million School Board Fund to the Misamis Oriental General Comprehensive High School (MOGCHS) in Cagayan de Oro City already for Fiscal Year 2011. The School Board Fund should have been divided and distributed to the municipalities and cities of Misamis Oriental. 8.a.) ALTERNATIVE: Come out with a criteria on how to divide, distribute and allocate properly the very limited School Board Fund. 8.b.) Wrong Sports Development Programs as it does not actually develop homegrown talents. The programs are primarily geared and spends millions of pesos (an average of P10 million a year) for imported basketball players rather than honing those from the barangays and municipalities of Misamis Oriental. 8.b.) ALTERNATIVE: Sports development programs should be geared to help homegrown talents rather than the hiring of those who are not even Misamisnons. 8.c.) Moreno Administration has still failed to come up with a comprehensive, wholistic, total and sustainable environmental program for Misamis Oriental. 8.c.) ALTERNATIVE: A wholistic and sustainable environmental program should have been thought of by the Moreno Administration and be given focus and funding as the protection of the Province s environment is also an investment of our future and our children s future.