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09-20-2006, 03:10 PM
Senator Francisco Dominguez Brito (PLD-Santiago) has sent a bill to the Senate proposing that the National Treasury should pay city governments directly, ridding the country of the Dominican Municipal League as an intermediary institution, as reported in Clave Digital. "The LMD needs to concentrate on its role as technical and planning advisor to the city governments," said Dominguez, a former Attorney General, when speaking to journalists from his office in Congress. He also stressed the importance of strengthening mechanisms to control public funds that the city governments receive. The law provides for 8% of the National Budget to be allocated to city governments, broken down as follows: 25% for payroll, 25% municipal service expenditures and 50% for infrastructural investments.
The PLD is majority in Congress.
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The PLD is majority in Congress.
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