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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 205
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 205 -
DIRECTING THE CONTINUED ADOPTION OF ECONOMY MEASURES FOR FISCAL YEAR
1991
Pursuant to the powers vested in me by law,
I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:
Section 1. All government offices and agencies,
including local government units and government owned or controlled
corporations, are hereby directed to adopt and implement the following
economy measures for FY 1991:
a.
Discontinuance of the grant and payment of all honoraria and similar
allowances, excluding representation and transportation allowances as
authorized in the General Appropriations Act.
b. Deferment
of hiring of consultants, except in foreign-assisted projects where the
hiring of consultants and other related personnel to these projects is
explicitly provided under the terms and conditions of the loan
agreement.
c. Suspension
of all foreign travel, except those fully funded from grants or those
expressly authorized by the Office of the President.
d. Suspension
of the conduct of all seminars, conventions, annual and anniversary
celebrations, sports activities and festivals and other similar
activities funded from agency budgets, except athletic meets and
activities conducted by public schools and state universities and
colleges;
e. Reduction
of staff initially by five percent (5%) by the end of June 1991 and by
ten percent (10%) by the end of December 1991 through voluntary
retirement and redeployment. For this purpose, the Department of Budget
and Management is hereby directed to develop and enforce a staff
reduction program, and to issue the corresponding rules; procedures and
guidelines governing said program.
On the basis of such rules, procedures and guidelines, all government
agencies including government owned or controlled corporations and
local government units shall submit their respective staff reduction
program to the Department of Budget and Management, not later than 30
days after the issuance of the DBM rules, procedures and guidelines.
Sec. 2. The sale of government vehicles to present
users with the rank of Secretary, Undersecretary, Assistant Secretary,
Director IV, V and VI, and their equivalent positions, is hereby
authorized. As a primary condition to the sale of these vehicles, the
vendees concerned shall continue to use these vehicles for official
government business and assume the cost of gasoline, repair and
maintenance services arising therefrom subject to the rules and
regulations to be promulgated pursuant to this provision.
The officials who, in writing, shall opt to purchase the vehicles
presently assigned to them may acquire the same through financing from
the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and other government
financial institutions. The GSIS and other government financial
institutions are hereby directed to make available a car financing plan
for this purpose. The rules and regulations to implement this Section shall be jointly formulated by the Department of Finance, Department of
Budget and Management and representatives from the government financial
institutions, and in consultation with the Commission on Audit. The
rules and regulations shall be issued within sixty (60) days from the
effectivity of this Administrative Order.
Sec. 3. The Department of Budget and Management
shall submit a report every quarter on the status of the implementation
of this Administrative Order to the Office of the President.
Sec. 4. Unless specified otherwise, all other
economy measures directed by Administrative Order No. 177 and
Administrative Order No. 197, both Series of 1990, are hereby
reiterated.
Sec. 5. All other rules, regulations and
directives or provisions of Presidential issuances which are
inconsistent with the provisions of this Administrative Order are
hereby amended and modified accordingly.
Sec. 6. This Administrative Order shall take
effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 3rd day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety one.
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