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THE NATURE AND STATE OF
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
WHAT IS LOCAL GOVERNMENT?
Political subdivisions of a nation or state (United Nations definition)Operate in restricted geographic areas, dealing with those matters which concern the people living in a particular locality.
Two important Elements:presence of a higher auhorityterritorial boundary
LOCAL GOVERNMENTAS LEGAL AUTHORITIES PROVIDING SERVICES
• United Nations qualifies that local governments are constituted by law. They possess the rights and the necessary organization to regulate their own affairs.
LOCAL GOVERNMENTAS LEGAL AUTHORITIES PROVIDING SERVICES
• The actual extent of self-determination or local autonomy depends on delegated authorities and on local capability.
LAYERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITY
• provinces, counties etc.• cities, municipalities, towns,
districts• barangays (sub-municipal
level)
FIELD ORGANIZATION ANDLOCAL GOVERNMENT
Field Offices= Perform specific governmental functions in designated areas, and the nature of their delegated functions is administrative.
=Heads of field offices are appointed generally by the head of the national agency of ministry
FIELD ORGANIZATION ANDLOCAL GOVERNMENT
Local Governments=Perform number of services, and the authority they exercise is political in nature. Political powers include legislation through locally elected or selected councils which also exercise the power of taxation.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT(PHILIPPINES)
PRE-SPANISH PERIOD
Datu
PRE-SPANISH PERIOD
Panday
PRE-SPANISH PERIOD
Babaylan
SPANISH COLONIZATION
=Awarded parcels of lands to favored persons who assisted them in the pacification of islands.
=Created cabildos,pueblos, provincias, barrios
PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC
AMERICAN COLONIZATION
=Continued the convenient system of centralization introduced to the country by the Spaniards.
=Kept the hierarchical chain of command from Manila undisturbed.
CONSTITUTION OF 1935
=Mentioned local government in only one section.
MARTIAL LAW 1972
=Strengthened the President's powers over local government despite an article in the Constitution of 1973 and the creation of Department of Local Government and Community Development by President Marcos.
PEOPLE POWER 1986
=The 1987 Constitution provided for special reforms of local government in response to ethnic pecularities in Muslim, Mindanao and the Cordilleras.
=LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF 1991
STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS
OF PHILIPPINE LOCAL GOVERNMENT
CRITERIA TO BE USED IN CREATING LOCAL UNITS
Province=2,000 square kilometers land area=not less than 250,000 population=at least P20 million pesos income
CRITERIA TO BE USED IN CREATING LOCAL UNITS
City=100 square kilometers land area=not less than 150,000 population=at least P20 million pesos income
CRITERIA TO BE USED IN CREATING LOCAL UNITS
Municipality=50 square kilometers land area=not less than 25,000 population=at least P2.5 million pesos income
CRITERIA TO BE USED IN CREATING LOCAL UNITS
Barangay=only criterion is population of at
least 2,000=in Metropolitan Manila, should be
a minimum of 5,000 population
CRITERIA TO BE USED IN CREATING LOCAL UNITS
=Local Government Code mandates that the creation of the local unit shall not reduce the land area, population, income of the original unit or units at the time of the creation to less than the prescribed minimum requirements.
TIERS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
ProvinceCities and MunicipalitiesBarangay
OFFICIALS
Provincial Level=Governor, Vice-Governor and
Members of Sangguniang Panlalawigan
OFFICIALS
Cities and Municipalities=Mayor and members of the Council
All are elected for a term of three years.
OFFICIALS
Ex-officio members:=local presidents of the league of barangays, the
presidents of the local federation of the Sangguniang Kabataan, presidents of the Sangguniang Members.
3 sectoral representatves=one from women, workers, and special sectors
SERVICES
Five Basic Services:1. agriculture2. health3. social welfare4. maintenance of public works and highways5. environmental protection
FUNDS
INTERNAL REVENUE
ALLOTMENT
SPECIAL LGU'S
-ARMM-MMDA-Bangsamoro Framework Agreement
