Lacuna signs P23.2B for Manila budget 2024

February 15, 2024

The Manila City Hall on a Tuesday afternoon, featuring the Manila Clock Tower Museum.   (Photo by Jewyz Ann Bunyi/The Manila Warden) 

Better services are in store for the residents of Manila as the city’s Mayor Maria Sheilah “Honey” Lacuna-Pangan approved on Nov. 30, 2023 the executive budget for 2024, amounting to P23.20 billion.  

In the explanatory note of Ordinance no. 9009 by Minority Floor Leader Councilor of Manila’s Sixth District Salvador Philip Lacuna, the budget for this fiscal year aimed to promote sustainability in the city. 

“It is a budget that is geared towards our direction to solidify the Manila City Government’s effort to continuously provide the best health care and social services, spread out social amelioration benefits to cover as many Manileños as possible, and guarantee an environment that is safe and peaceful, as well as green and resilient,” he said. 

In relation to this, the city’s Department of Social Welfare had a P1.667 billion budget, which was less than its P1.71 billion budget in 2023.  

Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center and the Manila Health Department had the biggest budget slice for the city’s health sector, allocating P1.29 billion and P1.28 billion, respectively.  

Meanwhile, the biggest portion of the 2024 budget was allocated to the Office of the Mayor at P2.02 billion, which increased compared to its 2023 budget of P1.91 billion.  

During the year-end capital report via Facebook live, Lacuna thanked Lacuna, Majority Floor Leader Ernesto “Jong” Isip Jr., Manila Vice Mayor John Marvin “Yul Servo” Nieto, the chairpersons of the city council’s appropriations committee and the local finance committee, and the city administrator.

- J.A.B.