CITY OF SAN FERNANDO --- Angeles City Administrator Mark Allen Sison has lashed back at Balibago Village Chief Rodelio “Tony” Mamac for his continuous failure to submit liquidation report to the city hall on their barangay expenses, share on the real property tax including tax credit.

Sison said since the time Mamac has assumed office as village chief, Balibago did not even care to present to the city hall or even to the accounting department their liquidation report.

This came in the heels of the report that the Sangguniang Pambarangay of Balibago urged the Commission on Audit, Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno and the City Tourism Office to make a full disclosure of the proceeds derived from the 2008 Tigtigan Terakan Keng Dalan and 2009 Street Jam Party held along the McArthur Avenue in the said village.

“Ngeni ku pa menakit na ing kapitan, papagreportan ne ing metung a mayor. Ali ba ing kapitan yang dapat magreport keng mayor,” the city administrator said.

Sison said Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno representing the city hall has no obligation to liquidate funds on the recent Street Jam Party as the city hall did not shell out even a single centavo on the said occasion as no public funds were used for its organization and actual implementation.

“The mayor has nothing to disclose on the proceeds of the Street Jam Party, as the management of the Street Jam Party including its proceeds were solely handled by the private companies.

He said the Street Jam Party was part of the City Fiesta was a private initiative and the only role of the City Tourism Office was coordination, hence, Sison claimed, the city hall has nothing to do with the money matters or the proceeds of the event as it was handled by the private companies who took the initiative.

Asked who were the private organizers, Sison mentioned the San Miguel Corporation, cellular phone companies among others who were behind the “successful” conduct of the event. “Ali tana laman a pa-audit deng private companies,” Sison added.

Mamac said they did not bother to require the organizer a barangay permit, knowing the fact that it was the Office of the Mayor and City Tourism Office who organized the event.

Sison claimed that there was no need for the private organizers to get barangay permit as the Mac Arthur Avenue is not a barangay but it is a national road and the event was coordinated with the city hall.

“Pero bukod sa Mac Arthur Avenue, may nagamit din silang barangay road,” Mamac said.

As this developed, Mamac said in a phone interview yesterday, that they would pass a barangay resolution urging the city tourism office to provide the list of companies who handled the event so they could charge them for amusement tax and ask them about the financial accounting, identification and application of proceeds derived from the Street Jam Party, a fund raising activity conducted annually.

“But now that they (City Tourism Office) denied their participation as organizer, the private companies, are deemed responsible to pay for the amusement tax in Barangay Balibago as they earned with their so-called ‘private event,” Mamac said. (Joel P. Mapiles)