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Republic of the Philippines re cP.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES i “ai
Quezon City

Sixteenth Congress
First Regular Session ————

HOUSE BILL NO. 1713

Introduced by Honorable Erico Aristotle C. Aumentado.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to convert the Bohol 2 Sub-District Engineering Office into a
regular engineering district to be known as the Bohol 2™ District Engineering Office in
the Province of Bohol. It has been approved by the House of Representatives during the
Fifteenth Congress and in the previous congresses.

The engineering district shall comprise the municipalities of Pres. Garcia, Ubay,
Bien Unido, Trinidad, Talibon, Getafe, Buenavista, Inabanga, Clarin, Sagbayan, San
Isidro, Dagohoy, Danao and San Miguel, all in the second congressional district of
Bohol. Presently, the towns, constitute about the one-third of Bohol’s area, under the
Bohol 2™ Sub-District Engineering Office.

The proposed engineering district will maintain 209.931 kilometers of national
roads and 1,525.40 linear meter of bridges.

The district office shall be located in the municipality of Ubay, province of Bohol
which is presently the site of the Bohol 2™ Sub-District Engineering Office urged to be
converted into a full fledged engineering district.

To date there are only two engineering districts in Bohol despite the fact that it
has 47 municipalities and one component city, Tagbilaran City, with 1,117 barangays.
The province has a total land area of 411,726 hectares and is classified as a first class
province.

The Bohol 2” Sub-District Engineering Office has a staff of 94 personnel,
including its district engineer and assistant district engineer and some personnel
redeployed from the Bohol 1" District Engineering Office in Tagbilaran City and the 3"
District Engineering Office in Guindulman, Bohol.

The redeployment of personnel therein shall be continued with proper upgrading
of the position/salaries of the personnel of the Bohol 2™ District Engineering Office.
Thus, there would be no need of creating new positions except that of the district
engineer, assistant district engincer, administrative officer and personnel officer whose
salaries could be charged to the items for the present positions being redeployed from the
two engineering districts which, however, must have to be upgraded to the level of the
salary grades/positions proposed in the plantilla of personnel therein and in accordance


with the classification of the new engineering district. Therefore, the amount to be
appropriated would be considerably minimal since the redeployed personnel can draw
their salaries from their present positions plus the upgrading of their position/salaries as
may be necessary.

The conversion of the Bohol 2% Sub-District Engineering Office into a regular
engineering district will result to a more closely supervised and effective implementation
of the infrastructure program of the Department of Public Works and Highways and other
agencies concemed which depend on DPWH to implement their infrastructure projects.

It will also hasten the pace of improvement of the various infrastructure projects
in the second congressional district of Bohol which has 14 municipalities with 347
barangays, 54 of which are island barangays with 23 in the island town of Pres. Garcia.
Consequently, a regular engineering district can bring the government closer to the
people in the hinterland barangays and the island barangays.

Moreover, the Bohol 2™ District Engineering Office can expedite the
improvement of the capital resources of the province and its economic development
particularly in the second district of Bohol which is the gateway to Cebu, Leyte, Southem
Leyte, and Northeastern Mindanao through Surigao City and all points of Mindanao, and
now to Manila through the Port of Ubay, a component of the Strong Republic Nautical
Highway.

Finally, the 2" Engineering District can generate more employment in at least
within its jurisdiction in the province which has a growing population of about 1.3
million as of the 2007 census per National Statistics Office report.

In the light of the foregoing, the urgent approval of this bill is earnestly requested.

E C AUMENTADO
2™ District, Bohol


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Sixteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 1719

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING THE SECOND DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE IN THE
PROVINCE OF BOHOL TO BE LOCATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF UBAY,
PROVINCE OF BOHOL, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Introduced by Honorable Erico Aristotle C. Aumentado

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:

Section J. There shall be established, under the supervision of the Department of
Public Works and Highways, a second engineering office to be located in the
Municipality of Ubay, Province of Bohol to be known as the Bohol Second District
Engineering Office.

Section 2. The said district engineering office shall comprise the municipalities of,
President Garcia, Ubay, Bien Unido, Trinidad, Talibon, Getafe, Buenavista, Inabanga’
Clarin, Sagbayan, San Isidro, Dagohoy, Danao, and San Miguel, all in the Second
Congressional District of Bohol.

Section 3. Secretary of Public Works and Highways shall include in the
Department's program the operationalization of the Bohol Second District Engineering
Office, the initial funding of which shall be charged against the current year’s
appropriation of the Bohol Second Subdistrict Office. Thereafter, the amount necessary
for the continued operation of the said district engineering office shall be included in the
Annual General Appropriations Act.

Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved,