City Council OKs P50M financial aid for quake-hit Abra province

FILE PHOTO: A portion of an old Catholic church in Tayum, Abra province, one of its treasured heritage sites, is reduced to this following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Wednesday, July 27, 2022.

The council also invited Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Chairman and former City Councilor Gerry Carillo to apprise the council of the situation in the earthquake-stricken areas in Luzon. Guardo saiud that the 15th City Council extended financial assistance during the earthquake that hit the City of Ormoc and to the Province of Davao.Carillo told the council that the remaining balance of the current budget for the QRF was around P105 million, which meant that should the city give P50 million as assistance, the city would have a remaining available budget of P55 million until December 2022.

“And take note that we still have a lot of months, from August to December . If we can only reduce it probably to P25 million, because I think this is the biggest that we can give,” he added.

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