LETTER OF IMPLEMENTATION NO. 85

RELEASING THE SUM OF P15MILLION 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:

    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;
    The sum shall be alloted 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;
    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.
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.

                 
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
                 
President
                 
Republic of the Philippines
                   
                   
 By the President:            
                   
 (Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA            
 Presidential Assistant