WHEREAS, present economic uncertainties and pressures call for considerable prudence and careful conservation of our limited resources for national priority projects which are consistent with our immediate and long-term goals;

WHEREAS, closer coordination among the different regions in the country and the various sectors of the government will maximize efforts in the effective and efficient implementation of development activities;

WHEREAS, providing for the basic needs of man serves as the essential ingredient for national unity and balanced socio-economic growth;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President (Prime Minister) of the Philippines, do hereby direct the following measures in the implementation of the CY 1980 budget;

MEDICAL SERVICES

Construction of barangay health stations
Purchase and distribution of drugs and medicines
Operation and maintenance of sanitaria and skin clinics
Operation and maintenance of hospitals
Construction and improvement/renovation of hospitals and sanitaria
Construction, rehabilitation and improvement of health center buildings

EDUCATION, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

National aid for the operation and maintenance of provincial, municipal, city and barangay high school
Implementation of programs for higher education including supervision of private schools
Implementation of programs for general secondary, fishery, trade, industrial arts and other vocational education courses
Construction and renovation of national secondary schools and colleges
Construction, rehabilitation and improvement of school buildings

MOBILITY

Repair and maintenance of roads and bridges
Repair and maintenance of barangay roads and bridges
Construction of national roads and bridges
Rehabilitation and improvement of national roads and bridges
Construction of new provincial roads and bridges
Construction of new city roads and bridges
Construction of new municipal roads and bridges
Repair maintenance of airport horizontal projects, including aircraft movement areas

Operation, management, maintenance and repair of airports, air navigation facilities, buildings and installations, including the purchase of necessary materials, supplies and equipments

ECOLOGICAL BALANCE

Reforestation  

FOOD  

Agricultural development program
Promotion of home management and rural youth development
Immunization, control and prevention of animal diseases
Beef/carabeef development program
Livestock and poultry dispersal and breed production
Feeding program for first and second degree malnourished pre-school children
 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS 

Construction of police headquarters stations, jails and training centers

WATER

Construction, rehabilitation and improve rent of artesian wells
Construction, rehabilitation and improvement of communal irritation systems

SHELTER

Bagong Lipunan Improvement of Sites and Services

ECONOMIC BASE

Regional manpower training centers
Regional manpower planning and research
Land tenure improvement services

2. The Minister of the Budget shall release the funds in accordance with the approved program and shall inform oil local government heads, through Members of the  Batasang Pambansa, Provincial Governors, and Mayors of Cities and Municipalities of the projects and the corresponding amounts earmarked for their respective localities.

3. She funds shall be released in accordance with the implementation schedule contained in the attached document, subject to availability of cash at the indicated times and the usual budgetary reserves. The implementing agencies conceded shall comply with the project listing and implementation schedule and shall not withhold any amounts intended for regional distribution except as nay be duly authorized under P.D. No.1177.

Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Assistant