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Create transition teams, DILG tells local leaders

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MALOLOS, Bulacan—The Interior Department on Tuesday called on local chief executives to create their own Local Governance Transition Teams barely three months before the elections to ensure a smooth turnover to the incoming local officials who would win in the May 2016 national and local elections. 

In a directive to provincial governors, and city and municipal mayors, the creation of transition teams is important for continuity in local governance.

“This early, the transition teams should already be preparing and rolling out the carpet for the newly-elected or reelected local officials in June 2016,” Interior Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento said Tuesday. 

Sarmiento said that each province, city and municipality should create a transition team not later than April 8, 2016. The team would be chaired by the local chief executive, while the vice chairperson will be selected from among the members who are the department heads, and representatives from the DILG and non-government organizations or people’s organizations.

One of the principal tasks and responsibilities of the transition teams is the conduct of an inventory of all local government units’ real or immovable properties such as land, buildings, infrastructure facilities and improvements and machineries; and movable properties such as vehicles, office equipment, furniture, fixtures and supply stocks.

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The team will also assemble all documents or records such as the 2015 Commission on Audit Report, Contracts and Loan Agreements, Comprehensive Development Plan, Local Development Investment Plan, 2016 Annual Investment Plan, inventory of personnel by nature of appointment, Executive Orders, Full Disclosure Policy Documents and others.

It is also the teams’ responsibility to organize a turnover ceremony on June 30, to include a briefing on the Governance Assessment Report and key challenges to the incoming set of officials.

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