Department of Budget and Management(DBM-)

November 9, 2020 Dear Lawrence Manuel, I refer to my letter of Nov 08, 2020 11:01:35 PM about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Complete Guidelines on IRA Allocation in the Municipal Level especially on allocating budget for har. In order for us to work further on your request, we need more information from you regarding your query. We would like to clarify what you meant in the phrase "if late IRA Budget allocation is allowed to be supplemented to an already implemented hard municipal project". In particular, it would be helpful to know if the project is either already finished and needs to be paid, or undergoing implementation charged against initially from other sources and additional funding shall be sourced from IRA, or initially has phases with the previous phase funded from other sources and the next phase shall be funded out of IRA, or other scenarios than what was mentioned. You may use the reply function on the eFOI portal at http://www.foi.gov.ph/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEERCTS0zNzkyNDU3Mzk0NTIM, for request with ticket number #DBM-379245739452, to respond. During the period of us awaiting your reply, your request will be put on hold. If we do not receive a reply on or before Feb 01, 2021 01:24:35 AM, your request will be closed. We hope to hear from you at the soonest possible time. Thank you. Respectfully, Local Government and Regional Bureau FOI Officer

Feb 01, 2021 Dear Lawrence, I refer to my letter of Nov 09, 2020 about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Complete Guidelines on IRA Allocation in the Municipal Level especially on allocating budget for har. In particular, I had requested specific information for you to clarify upon in order for us to proceed with the request. As we have not received a reply within the 60-day working period since the letter requesting for clarification was sent out, we regret to inform you that this request will be closed as of Feb 01, 2021. You may wish to submit a new request describing the specific information you are looking for, and we will be able to consider it under the guidelines as stated in Executive Order No. 2. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to or visiting our central office. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Local Government and Regional FOI Officer